Washingtonians

[Farmin Momma]

Back from Cabo! What a wet miserable welcome in the weather department! Brrr...............

Welcome back from Cabo! Hope you had a great time there in the nice hot weather, while we all playing with our chickens in the rain! LOL nice to have you back.

 

[RonB]

Back from Cabo! What a wet miserable welcome in the weather department! Brrr...............

Your sitting in the hot sun in Cabo, while my broody Sussex is sitting on a wood egg and TWO golf balls???

what timing

. Hope you had a great time. sorry about the rain

 

[VelvettFog]

I gotta get to work on some plans -- folks are getting nervous

Back later...

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Back from Cabo! What a wet miserable welcome in the weather department! Brrr...............

Hoping you had a great time and brought some NICE weather for my trip to the dunes. We will be leaving 5:00 am and hope we don't get too wet.

 

[Chickielady]

I got a new heat lamp in March and noticed out in the coop that the clamp kept falling off. (Good thing I wasn't using the clamp.) Those things are just cheaply made and it made me nervous, so I kept my eye on the heat lamp w/clamps I used in the house with the brooder. We've had that one for several years and I never had a problem with that clamp falling off. I'm a Red Cross volunteer so I've seen the devastation first hand when it comes to house fires......I would definitely recommend using some other fool proof way to hang the heat lamp OTHER than using the clamp that it came with.

I use wire, heavy vinyard wire to hold the lamps up...and I can set the lamp low for new hatches & raise it as they fledge.
I do not recall ever seeing a high heat lamp with a clamp ??????????

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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Nothing today...

I'm impatient. It's not enough that they're born on time (tomorrow) I want them a day early LOL

Also - both of my Ameracauna's are now broody. Blueberry has been sitting for a few days already - now Blackberry has joined her. They are so darned cute - such tiny girls and yet they can get so fluffy LOL I will probably candle the three eggs tonight and let them co-sit. They were hatched together by co-mamas, so it will be fitting!

 

[Chickielady]

CR & I do this a few times each year...and I have appointed him "Heat Lamp Safety Officer" of WA peeps !!
he has awful stories of friend's barns burning down.................all due to heat lamps.

here is a proper heat lamp (Note: no clamp! and heavy cord and ceramic base !!! and heavy guard over the bulb.)

 

[Chickielady]

This is a clamp on light fixture.......................NOT a heat lamp fixture.

It has a plastic base and a skinny cord, and no guard over the bulb.

CR feel free to jump in & tell the peeps about the fire !

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Back from Cabo! What a wet miserable welcome in the weather department! Brrr...............

Welcome back, Tamara! I bet the weather was much nicer down there.

 

[VelvettFog]

Not all 'clamp on' lights are plastic. The ones that I have are ceramic, but still have clamps. (That I don't use)