Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[jvls1942]

I have a laptop computer that I'm trying to sell. The people responding to my CL ad are asking questions about it that I don't even understand. Its a computer, it has wifi and plays DVDs. I put how much memory it has and what processor and version of Windows. I'm asking $125. My six year old is playing a game on it now. I think I'll just let her have it. The headache of answering these questions is not worth it.

good call,, 90% of those people wouldn't show up anyway..
tell them to come and look at it, and then you will answer the questions..

 

[JustJohn]

So, is "fart egg" the latin term? I have never heard it before.

nice one Jim by the way. That quarter would sell for almost 3 bucks a dozen and who among us could get that for eggs?


TerriO I am setting quail eggs tomorrow and you should too, don't forget. otherwise we can't have the "hatching quail and posting pictures of cute baby quail before the mayhem of the Easter Hatch hatch"

 

[delisha]

*fart* eggs typically have no yolk. it is when the shell forms and is caused by a piece of reproductive tissue breaking away, which in turn stimulates the egg production glands. These glands treat the mass as a yolk and begin forming an egg around it.

 

[unkadan]

there is something inherently wrong with the term "fart egg" ,,,,,tyvm Amy

 

[judge]

good morning,, I had bees for a couple of years.. we caught a wild swarm.. I can tell you that we never had a better garden before or since then.. Honey bees are not aggressive if left to do their thing.. just set the hive well away from the house,, a couple hundred feet or so.. when we had them, my 11 year old son handled them.. he was a mild easy going kid, so it was a natural team.

I think I should type up / update my incubation instructions and post it here for everybody to print out.. It is so much easier to set up the bator correctly BEFORE setting eggs than having to correct the problems after..

maybe I should come out of retirement and travel the countryside building chicken coops..
"Have Hammer, Will Travel" da dUm, dA dum dadada daaaa..........

Bigvam,, I am not a fan of dry incubation.. If it works for you, do it.. but I would never recommend it.. the reason it works sometime is because there is enough humidity in the surrounding air.. Have you ever done it in the dead of winter when the relative humidity is very low ? I am not putting you down or challenging you,, I really want to know..

another mythe I want to crack someday is setting a styrofoam incubator near a window where the sun can hit it.. If the bator is preset correctly, the outside temperature should not affect it unless the surrounding temp is more than 99.5F.
.hmmm maybe this will be a project for this summer..

my biggest obstacle will be finding a window that is not cluttered with house plants..

.jimbbl........

hey there- I'll take you up on that! I need another coop. It's only a 2 1/2hr drive

 

[judge]

Here is a new one for me. So my little bantams(not the silkies though) have not laid all winter, even though they are yearlings. They are a bantam brown leghorn and a d'uccle. Well one of them decided to start laying again today but wow, this is new...
what do you think...one teeny tiny egg ( along with a big one, a green one and a light blue...my only cool colored ones)
is this normal?

I've had a few of these. So weird right? I cracked one on the gravel, and one in a bowl. It was really yucky!

 

[judge]

Whew- made 15lbs of chicken wings, 6lbs of cheesy potatoes amongst other things, and had 30 people over to celebrate DS10 birthday today. It was nice day, but now I need a break!
Getting excited about picking up my white chantecler eggs Friday.
My first hatch I feel like I did everything wrong- LG incubator, went out to the coop and picked 6 eggs and put them immediately in the incubator, filled up the reservoirs to the top, put in 6 eggs including one really dirty egg (which hatched)and the thermometer that came with it. I have no idea what the humidity was until lockdown when I got a hygrometer. The temp spiked to 103 and I turned the eggs by hand 2x daily. I hatched out 4 of 6. The two that didn't hatch never started. What do you guys think- luck? Should I try to be more precise this time?

 

[Terri O]

. What do you guys think- luck? Should I try to be more precise this time?

Maybe? Never know--you might get 100%! TO

 

[Celtic Chick]

Having more of a clue as to the "correct"(?) way to incubate, why wouldn't you?

I don't mean anything by it, I'm just curious. I'm sure your first time was strictly an experiment, but if you seriously want to start hatching eggs (taking the time to set everything up, the electricity $$$, etc.), wouldn't you want the best chance at success the first time around? If it doesn't work for you, go back to what does. Trial & error as you have said, right?
I personally know that Jim is the absolute hatch master, hatching out umpteen different types of birds, hundreds of them per year. So if he has an opinion about incubating/hatching, I'm going to follow his instructions to the letter. But then again, that is just my opinion. I do know for a fact that every time I have e-mailed Jim with a question, he has been correct in his advice every time. But you have to do what you feel is the right thing.

Weren't there some people looking for SLW?
Silver Laced Wyandotte breeding pair - $35 (West Bend)
http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/grd/3591738829.html

White Call Ducks - $15 (whitewater)
http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/grd/3654697890.html

 

[judge]

Having more of a clue as to the "correct"(?) way to incubate, why wouldn't you?

I don't mean anything by it, I'm just curious. I'm sure your first time was strictly an experiment, but if you seriously want to start hatching eggs (taking the time to set everything up, the electricity $$$, etc.), wouldn't you want the best chance at success the first time around? If it doesn't work for you, go back to what does. Trial & error as you have said, right?
I personally know that Jim is the absolute hatch master, hatching out umpteen different types of birds, hundreds of them per year. So if he has an opinion about incubating/hatching, I'm going to follow his instructions to the letter. But then again, that is just my opinion. I do know for a fact that every time I have e-mailed Jim with a question, he has been correct in his advice every time. But you have to do what you feel is the right thing.

Weren't there some people looking for SLW?
Silver Laced Wyandotte breeding pair - $35 (West Bend)
http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/grd/3591738829.html

White Call Ducks - $15 (whitewater)
http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/grd/3654697890.html

That's kind of what I was thinking. Was probably just lucky that time. Nervous about these "real" eggs. Hopefully I don't screw it up.