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[Chickielady]

A few years ago all Alex would listen to was Iz.

That's so funny, DS loved it but DD would not touch it !
Ha ha you just can't win them all !
Is Iz a Hawaiian group also ?

 

[Chickielady]

Missed this earlier! Me too! I'll take one!!! How many eggs will fit in one?!?

I use one of the standard turners you can buy at the feed store, think they hold 42 eggs ?
If I have anymore than that, I plug in the cabinet & use this home made one as a hatcher/lockdown bator.

 

[Chickielady]

Anybody familiar with TMJ? Self-diagnosing here. Starting a couple months ago, I have been somtimes getting a slight jaw pain, and the left hinge feels like it is not lining up. The pain has been coming more often and for the past week the pain has been pretty much constant and I can't bite down all the way. The pain is fairly mild, but constant. Sometimes the pain feels like it is running along the root of one of my upper molars, sometimes it feels like it is running from my ear canal to the corner of my mouth, sometimes it feels like it is in my lower back molar, and now it feels like it is in all those.

Dang, I just found out that the pasta is gone!!!! DS tol DD it is quite good, so she and her friend are both eating it. DH took some noodles and avoided anything red or green.

The TMJ is a joint, we all have one on each upper part of the mandible...it is called the Temperal Mandibular Joint, it is not a disease or syndrom, just a joint like knees or elbows.
The difference is, it has no gristle/socket connection, it floats and stays in place by tendon only, that is why you can wiggle it side to side or up & down.
The lower nerve (mandibular) runs through the area & down the side of the mandible, and ends in front, under your front lower teeth.
To have dental work done on the mandible, you get a shot of lidocaine right in that back hinge area to deaden the nerve.
It sounds to me as though you are grinding your teeth at night...and this can both stress the joint/muscles & nerve and the molars both upper & lower...
Teeth that have no root canal float also, and have a sock-like ligament around them...this allows Orthodontists to move teeth by pushing or pulling them, and so the ligament moves to put the story short.
IF you are grinding your teeth, it can stress the teeth & so the nerve and can gets as far as cracking the teeth.
What I would advise is to make a appt with your dental team, and explain, and they can make you a night guard you wear to bed that absorbs the pressure & stress.
Most Oral Surgeons can also massage the jaw area & make a night gurad as well.
Stress does it, and supposibly there has been a grand increase in this sort of thing since the housing market dropped and recession began.

 

[Totalcolour]

Need recipe!

I tried to make a Buche de Noel . . . There are 18 eggs in this cake (mostly just the whites) and almost no flour.

Mine did not look much like a log, so I called it a forest floor cake:



She used to make another cake that looks a lot like that ring you have there, but with almond paste in it.

That is amazing! How many people did it take to eat it?

Mine was made with Pate a choux. Filling cream was chocolate, cointreau and vanilla, with vanilla whipped cream. I only used 9 eggs!

I love making stuff with pate a choux - they look so resplendent, don't they!

 

[Chickielady]

I don't have any soy problems (which is good because I love tofu); the sunflower thing is a relatively newly acquired true allergy that started with a massive accidental exposure to sunflower proteins (I'll show you the scar some day) exacerbated by treating the swelling with arnica. It's gotten worse with every exposure, to the extent that I now don't eat ANYTHING with sunflower seeds, nor expose myself to sunflower seeds in bird seed or suet blocks, for fear of anaphylaxis. So, no granola, or granola bars, and my selection of breads is less restrictive than yours because I can have gluten but if I'm not 100% sure there's no sunflower content in bought bread I can't have it. Also no Arnica, Jerusalem Artichokes or Jicama or raw sunflower seed oil- when it's heated to the point of frying chips, the proteins are gone (and commercial frying oil is super-filtered so the protein content is low to begin with).
There's two brands of lip balm I can use, neither of them cheap. Sunflower seed oil is in almost every cosmetic, because it's cheap and stable. All Burt's Bees products have it, for instance.

wow, good to know !
I will try avoiding that & see if it isn't what continues bothering me !

 

[Chickielady]

I find I am quite fond of Richard Ho'opi'i .. my cottage tenant sometimes accompanies him ... if you love Hawaiian music I can get you tons of tapes, they show up quite regularly in the Kula Hospital thrift store ... or perhaps I can talk to Mary and get her & her group to record some stuff for me

That would be so cool !
Thanks Kaneke !

 

[Chickielady]

I have tried dry incubation at 35%, and regular incubation at 55% both successfully. My digital Sportsman runs it at 55% and have had the best hatch rates ever. There are lots of opinions out there but whatever you do it has to do with the size of the growing air cell at the proper stages. You can incubate at whatever humidity you want as long as the egg is evaporating correctly. When I first started incubating I didn't realize I needed to calibrate my humidity gauge. Humidity was reading in the 55% range but was actually in the 65 - 70% range for several unsuccessful messy wet hatches before I realized it. Several broke the air cell or pipped but never hatched so possibly drowned due to not enough evaporation. Since my hatch rates are most excellent with my Sportsman I'm not likely going to question it. I asked once about how does humidity change under the hen the last three days. I was told the hen will go to the water and wet herself. Since I incubate and don't use broodys I can't say I have observed it but it sounds possible. With all the incubation info out there and all the differing opinions I have never heard of incubating at 70% until now. If 70% is working for you than thats great. Maybe the difference is it works for a broody because she gets off the nest and the eggs get a chance to lose the excess moisture but in the last 3 days she sits tight therefore keeping the humidity in but since an incubator is consistent, no constant on and off, humidity needs to be lower for proper evaporation. Just a thought.

Exactly, but I have had many broodys and have never seen a bird wet herself....With my cabinet gQf, the humdity runs lower than the home made one...and it works excellent as an incubator so I do not question that either !
I also wanted to add another issue I have noticed with hatching...and that is your ambient humdity & temperature.
In dry areas, extremely cold areas, your outside air can be extremely dry & effect your humidity in your hatches.
My humdity varies (and is adjusted ) in various seasons per my area.
What works for me may not work for say, 4321, or Ogress, so that is something I have pondered before.
Individual incubators can vary greatly as well...what works in the farm Master does not work in the Sportsman, for example.
And in the same area !
Getting enough air to allow the egg to 'evaporate' is exactly true, though.
If there is not enough fresh air, chicks can be gooey...not really 'wet' but the membrane remains thick & kind of sticky.
Getting it all perfect, per your area & season can be something each of us has to experiment with where we live.
Hatching in summer when it is dry here gives me completely different challenges than I have now.

Anyone here use a wet bulb ?
I have one, and used it a few times, but have not had good luck with it.

 

[Chickielady]

Weird stuff:

Yesterday AM, I go out to open the old coop which houses the turkeys, and there, on the ground in front of the door is a small gardener snake, dead, about 14" long, jaw sideways as if stomped.
Wasn't there the night before when I locked up.
So I had DH take it away before I let the birds out lest they freak or eat it....
So I have been thinking how this happened, and have come up with this:
The snake should have been (and probably was) curled up under the coop, hibernating.
Then that rat I have been trying to catch is rooting around under that coop (I know it is there !) and found the sleeping snake & drug it out & killed it.
There were no bite marks on the snake...poor baby !

We ordered the rat zapper at the feed store & it should arrive tomorrow or Wed.
We have all sorts of other traps set & cannot get this big rat though !!!!

Grosses me out, that rat could be sitting IN the coop during the day pigging out & runs & hides if he hears me coming !
Anyone know of any other ways to get him before the zpper gets here ?

We have seen him on the wildview cam....and I saw him in daylight hopping through the deep snow !

 

[Chickielady]

More weird stuff:

had really wet poop trays in that same coop...for a few days now.
Then I looked up at the ceiling & discovered the roof is leaking on every nail !
It has a shed roof & rolled roofing & I held it down with roofing nails & puttied them up good with Henry's, but seems the recent snow slid off & took some Henry's with it, leaving the nails exposed so the whole roof had to be resealed !
So I been on the roof all day buttering every nail with henry's...glad it stopped raining for a few.
need to figure out a better roofing system on that coop.

 

[Chickielady]

More weird stuff:
Ha ha it just never stops.........
Elk.we are surrounded and it is driving the dog nuts.
The herd was in a neighbor's driveway a few days ago & would not move !
They just lay down to snooze and fear nothing.

Wish the dog would shut up !!!
have to keep him tied up or after the herd he goes !

Oh well...nothing we can do about that !