YO GEORGIANS! :)

[missy1971]

Lol...im the sweetest, most caring person until I get rubbed the wrong way...lol then it's on!
When y'all meet me in the 20th y'all will understand! Lol

 

[katsdar]

went down to the coop this afternoon to gather my eggs and check the chicks, I have four, well had four, welsummer/ameraucana cross chicks that a broody hatched last month. one of them was no where to be found from the inside, so I went to the side and opened the door. Big black rat snake laying there with a swollen belly, and me only counting three chicks where there should have been four......

these were the ones I let the broody hatch to replace the ones the dogs killed back in march


so I re-located the snake to a place she'll never eat chicks or eggs again, cause once they find a restaurant that's cheap and easy, they'll hang around until the supplies are gone

That's right no free loaders

Papachaz, do you mean "never" as in eternally? Way to go!

Yep, since it would be illegal to kill a good snake

X2

So...since I just got a pretty sarcastic/flippant response from someone on the alleged helpful hatching/incubating thread, I thought I'd put the question to my GA peeps:

I'm on day 18 here and have a quick question that is melting my brain. I'm using a Brinsea Maxi II and the paperwork it comes with says that the default settings for chicken eggs have it stopping turning 2 days before hatch. To me, that seems like a lockdown at day 19. We had a power failure last hatch and the settings had gotten messed up, so I ended up manually configuring it for the hatch.

In y'all's opinion, should I stop the turn since it's legitimately day 18 here as of one hour ago, or let the Brinsea settings ride?

To me, it's a situation where the more I study the calendar and count the hours, the more confused I get. It was the beginning of Day 18 (like, hour 1) at about 9 am here. Would y'all stop turning as of this moment or what? I've emailed Brinsea because the machine is still saying there are 5 days left when it's Day 18. I feel like I'm at a drop back and punt moment!

I stop at day 18

From Okefenokee country here!

Not having to worry about lock down was SO worth the cost of the incubator I bought for GAM. I would not want to live with her everytime that moment came... not that I really want to live with her anyway but I digress.

Next time I see Gam I'm gonna tell her what you said and remember she knows what side of the bed you sleep on,

 

[livhatcher]

Just thinking of @katsdar and hoping she knows how big these 2 "false turkeys" aka Bielefelders are right now.

Also, I did download all new updates to Adobe creative suite so I can play with the shirt. This weekend has not been what I like to call "client free."

I am locked down with 12/12 shipped eggs looking active. Hope they don't fail me in the next 72.

 

[katsdar]

Just thinking of @katsdar and hoping she knows how big these 2 "false turkeys" aka Bielefelders are right now.

Also, I did download all new updates to Adobe creative suite so I can play with the shirt. This weekend has not been what I like to call "client free."

I am locked down with 12/12 shipped eggs looking active. Hope they don't fail me in the next 72.

 

[speckledhen]

So...since I just got a pretty sarcastic/flippant response from someone on the alleged helpful hatching/incubating thread, I thought I'd put the question to my GA peeps:

I'm on day 18 here and have a quick question that is melting my brain. I'm using a Brinsea Maxi II and the paperwork it comes with says that the default settings for chicken eggs have it stopping turning 2 days before hatch. To me, that seems like a lockdown at day 19. We had a power failure last hatch and the settings had gotten messed up, so I ended up manually configuring it for the hatch.

In y'all's opinion, should I stop the turn since it's legitimately day 18 here as of one hour ago, or let the Brinsea settings ride?

To me, it's a situation where the more I study the calendar and count the hours, the more confused I get. It was the beginning of Day 18 (like, hour 1) at about 9 am here. Would y'all stop turning as of this moment or what? I've emailed Brinsea because the machine is still saying there are 5 days left when it's Day 18. I feel like I'm at a drop back and punt moment!

I've stopped turning at the end of Day 17 or at the end of Day 18/ beginning of Day 19, didn't make a difference.

 

[livhatcher]

I've stopped turning at the end of Day 17 or at the end of Day 18/ beginning of Day 19, didn't make a difference.

thank you. that makes me feel better---I still feel like I have so much to learn. And I am concerned that the Brinsea is not counting accurately. That (in principle) should not be an issue as expensive as these stupid things are. But, there again, today, I adjusted it down to 3 days left and within 3 hours, it said 2 days. I don't know what to think.

 

[speckledhen]

thank you. that makes me feel better---I still feel like I have so much to learn. And I am concerned that the Brinsea is not counting accurately. That (in principle) should not be an issue as expensive as these stupid things are. But, there again, today, I adjusted it down to 3 days left and within 3 hours, it said 2 days. I don't know what to think.

Can't help you with the Brinsea. I have only used a Hovabator and marked days on the calendar next to my desk. Worry free isn't so much, apparently! Hope you can figure out why it malfunctioned.

 

[livhatcher]

Can't help you with the Brinsea. I have only used a Hovabator and marked days on the calendar next to my desk. Worry free isn't so much, apparently! Hope you can figure out why it malfunctioned.

It did a similar thing on my first hatch but I thought it just lost a little time due to a power outage. I've contacted them to look into it...with a 3 year warranty, I think they should either explain or service it. LOL, maybe they'll take it back and let me trade for a larger machine! Of course, I keep pretty meticulous hatch records, so I have a good idea of what's going on at each day, BUT BUT BUT I just wanted the machine to agree with me.

 

[speckledhen]

It did a similar thing on my first hatch but I thought it just lost a little time due to a power outage. I've contacted them to look into it...with a 3 year warranty, I think they should either explain or service it. LOL, maybe they'll take it back and let me trade for a larger machine! Of course, I keep pretty meticulous hatch records, so I have a good idea of what's going on at each day, BUT BUT BUT I just wanted the machine to agree with me.

Of course, a machine you pay good money for should work perfectly. Go get 'em!

 

[Lady Who]

So I finally got the the cochin Bantam chick from Flowerbh on Friday and I must say she is the sweetest chick ever! Her name is Dixie and she loves to sit on her pink towel and snuggle