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Revolution in Progress
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Bunnies are adorable!
Bunnies are adorable!
BeccaOH: Update of just STUFF
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TanksHill
Super Self-Sufficient
Is it your birthday today???? Who hoo!!!! 
Happy Birthday!!!!
Happy Birthday!!!!
keljonma
Epicurean Goddess
H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y, B E C C A !!
Wonderful to hear you didn't come back to any losses. Once we went out of town and came back to find some of the chickens were feeling poorly. TR said it was just like how Titan mopes when we leave him behind..
Welcome back! Glad to hear you had a great visit.
Wonderful to hear you didn't come back to any losses. Once we went out of town and came back to find some of the chickens were feeling poorly. TR said it was just like how Titan mopes when we leave him behind..
Welcome back! Glad to hear you had a great visit.
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BeccaOH
Almost Self-Reliant
Thanks for the birthday wishes. Saturday was a decent day, though I was tired and took a 1.5 hour nap in the afternoon before going out and trying to accomplish some work.
Needed to clean pens, but I don't have any more place to put the poo!!! Can't get the full wheel barrel or trailer up the hill to where I have a couple compost piles. When the snow is gone (hopefully by the end of this spring-like week) it will still be too muddy for the lawn mower to pull the trailer. :/
Anyhow, Saturday I found that I narrowly escaped having my back coop burn down. I had worried about frozen up water while being out of town, so I plugged in a second heated dog water bowl in the coop. Ran them both on the same cord that also was branched and running a bowl in the call duck pen.
When all the heated waterers in all pens were frozen over Saturday morning, I found the breaker tripped in the garage. I flipped it back and waterers were working. But I decided to take a couple heaters off and lessen the load. Started in the back coop. Luckily the 3 plug extender I had used was hanging outside the pop door of the coop above a snow drift. It had flamed and melted the extender and the end of the extension cord. Blackened the white paint on the building a bit. As I unplugged things and started to roll up the cord, it flamed again. Needless to say, I finally unplugged the cord from the source.
Moral of the story -- don't overload extension cords. 
Needed to clean pens, but I don't have any more place to put the poo!!! Can't get the full wheel barrel or trailer up the hill to where I have a couple compost piles. When the snow is gone (hopefully by the end of this spring-like week) it will still be too muddy for the lawn mower to pull the trailer. :/
Anyhow, Saturday I found that I narrowly escaped having my back coop burn down. I had worried about frozen up water while being out of town, so I plugged in a second heated dog water bowl in the coop. Ran them both on the same cord that also was branched and running a bowl in the call duck pen.
When all the heated waterers in all pens were frozen over Saturday morning, I found the breaker tripped in the garage. I flipped it back and waterers were working. But I decided to take a couple heaters off and lessen the load. Started in the back coop. Luckily the 3 plug extender I had used was hanging outside the pop door of the coop above a snow drift. It had flamed and melted the extender and the end of the extension cord. Blackened the white paint on the building a bit. As I unplugged things and started to roll up the cord, it flamed again. Needless to say, I finally unplugged the cord from the source.
Moral of the story -- don't overload extension cords.
keljonma
Epicurean Goddess
What a blessing that the breaker tripped. Very good advice about overload; thanks for the reminder!
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BeccaOH
Almost Self-Reliant
I need a second job. . .
To pay for hatching eggs.
I've definitely got spring fever which seems to be coming out in a sudden compulsion to fill my incubators. So far I've got these going in 2 bators:
30 Maran eggs (Copper Black, Blue, Wheated, and French)
2 Mille Fleur d'Uccle
7 call ducks (veining
)
2 Sebastopol geese (veining )
But now I have Blue Langshans and these. . .coming.
Blue Laced Red Brahmas from Big Medicine BYCer here in OH. Saw his silvers at Nationals.
QA and I will work on these brahmas together.
Going to be 60 today. Spring has sprung!
To pay for hatching eggs.
I've definitely got spring fever which seems to be coming out in a sudden compulsion to fill my incubators. So far I've got these going in 2 bators:
30 Maran eggs (Copper Black, Blue, Wheated, and French)
2 Mille Fleur d'Uccle
7 call ducks (veining
)2 Sebastopol geese (veining
)But now I have Blue Langshans and these. . .coming.
Blue Laced Red Brahmas from Big Medicine BYCer here in OH. Saw his silvers at Nationals.
QA and I will work on these brahmas together.
Going to be 60 today. Spring has sprung!
Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
Yea, I guess I need to pull out my other incubator! 
keljonma
Epicurean Goddess
What beauties!
We have 57 today and 61 is forecast for Friday
We have 57 today and 61 is forecast for Friday
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BeccaOH
Almost Self-Reliant
Yep, he's the only one I know of working on the new colors for Brahmas.Javamama said:Wow, I have never seen a BLR Brahma. Cool
