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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 7:43:12 GMT -5
Still no power. I took the eggs to daycare.
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Post by Opti on Jun 18, 2014 7:57:00 GMT -5
Daycare will let you plug in the incubator? Sorry to hear about power still being out. Any estimates from your power company when it will be restored? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 8:08:35 GMT -5
Daycare will let you plug in the incubator? Sorry to hear about power still being out. Any estimates from your power company when it will be restored? Sure. She was happy to take them. We've become pretty good friends after 4 years of her watching my son, so it wasn't an unusual request. LOL No clue when the power will be back, but I'm getting really sick of all these storms. The kids can't sleep in them because they're afraid and I can't sleep because the kids can't sleep and because I'm worried about flooding and getting struck by lightning, and tornadoes and all that fun stuff (all that's happened in the past couple years at least once!) So today I'm at work, not showered because we have no power and tired because this is day two with little sleep. AND I forgot my glasses! Everyone better stay away from me today.  |
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 18, 2014 8:20:56 GMT -5
AND I forgot my glasses! Everyone better stay away from me today. Which guarantees your stupid ex will do something stupid today. Good luck with the chicks. My boss says we're in for another round so I'm thinking that what you got last night will be hitting us soon. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 8:35:09 GMT -5
Which guarantees your stupid ex will do something stupid today. Good luck with the chicks. My boss says we're in for another round so I'm thinking that what you got last night will be hitting us soon. There were a lot of high winds and periods of torrential rain last night. Mudslides all over on the drive to town. |
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 18, 2014 9:05:08 GMT -5
It's really dark here right now.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 14:25:26 GMT -5
My day just keeps getting better. I swear these chicks are doomed. Daycare called about an hour and a half ago saying DS was throwing up and when I got there the incubator was at 110! Anything over about 103 internal temp is lethal. Older DS was there today and I had called him at 11 and he said the temp was 95 and he was going to "turn it up a little" I cautioned him that if he did that he was going to have to watch it really close since the thermostat was very sensitive, but apparently he didn't. Anyhow, so it was an hour and a half from 95 to 110. There's still movement in the eggs...so alive anyhow. We're all home now and the power is back on. I took the eggs off the turner and put them on lockdown for the final few days. I guess just cross our fingers. Also, I had just put a half day vacation request in for tomorrow for my son's birthday when daycare called to say he was puking.  I'll probably be home with him all day tomorrow instead and not doing anything fun. |
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Post by giramomma on Jun 18, 2014 15:20:33 GMT -5
Oh No. I hope things get better for you soon.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 15:38:17 GMT -5
Since I was home early I was messing around in the barn trying to assess all the damage from the lightning strike. The electric fencer is fried! I'm lucky the barn didn't burn down! I found the cover for it about 20 feet away.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2014 15:40:59 GMT -5
Now why the sick one is still sleeping, older son and I are going to go downstairs and try to get to the bottom of this mouse situation. Wish us luck!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 8:19:38 GMT -5
OMG. Our power is out AGAIN. These damn storms!! But, worse than that, I was in the ER last night from 3-5am with the little one. He had a fever of 105.5! I took his temp 8 times because I couldn't believe that was right. Then I threw him in the van and drove to town in a nasty storm. Today is his birthday! Poor kid.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 19, 2014 8:25:53 GMT -5
Oh, poor kid. I hope it gets better.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 10:45:30 GMT -5
He had a nasty ear infection. They gave him antibiotics, anti-nausea meds, and a bunch of Tylenol. Temp was 103.8 when we got to the ER, but that was about 30 minutes after I'd given him a double dose of ibuprofen and wrapped him in cold wet towels. (All this with the power out at our house!).
That was the second scariest kid moment for me. The first was when older son got in the 4-wheeler accident at age 7 and broke the bones around his eye.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 10:46:16 GMT -5
AND...in chicken egg news. I think we may have a pipped egg. I'm not positive, but it looked like a tiny crack.
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Post by mmhmm on Jun 20, 2014 10:47:10 GMT -5
Aww, MPL, I'm sorry. I hope it turns out okay.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 10:52:25 GMT -5
Aww, MPL, I'm sorry. I hope it turns out okay. Oh, he's much better now! The ER post was from yesterday morning. He's back at daycare and no fever for the past 24 hours. |
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Post by mmhmm on Jun 20, 2014 10:54:34 GMT -5
I'm so glad to hear it, MPL! A sick kid is always scary and with everything else on your plate, I'd have been out of my mind! Now, I hope the chicks do as well! Hugs, hon!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2014 10:38:54 GMT -5
Chicks are hatching but were going to be out of town all day.
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Post by busymom on Jun 21, 2014 12:19:14 GMT -5
MPL, I hope your kids are feeling better. DD had a temp in that range when she was in preschool, & it turned out she had pneumonia. That high temp gave us a big scare, too!
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Post by sapphire12 on Jun 22, 2014 9:35:10 GMT -5
Wow. You've had a tough few days! Glad your little one is doing much better. How are the chicks?
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 22, 2014 10:05:43 GMT -5
I started a new batch of 21 on June 1st. We candled them this weekend and think there are 4 or 5 duds, but the rest look good so far. Twelve more days! What, pray, is "candling" of a chicken? And what is a "dud" chicken? One who won't lay eggs? |
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I started a new batch of 21 on June 1st. We candled them this weekend and think there are 4 or 5 duds, but the rest look good so far. Twelve more days! What, pray, is "candling" of a chicken? And what is a "dud" chicken? One who won't lay eggs? Dud eggs, not chickens. They never developed. Candling is shining a bright light behind the egg to see what's going on inside. Day 7 or 8 you can see the little embryo and all the blood vessels forming in the yolk. By day 15 if it's a good egg, it's practically opaque because it's filling up with baby bird, a dud you can still see through. 13 of the original 21 have hatched. One or two more are working on it. |
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 22, 2014 16:37:04 GMT -5
What, pray, is "candling" of a chicken? And what is a "dud" chicken? One who won't lay eggs? Dud eggs, not chickens. They never developed. Candling is shining a bright light behind the egg to see what's going on inside. Day 7 or 8 you can see the little embryo and all the blood vessels forming in the yolk. By day 15 if it's a good egg, it's practically opaque because it's filling up with baby bird, a dud you can still see through. 13 of the original 21 have hatched. One or two more are working on it. But you can eat the "duds" then, right? Thanks for the explanation. As far as I'm concerned, chickens are for others to raise and for me to eat.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2014 16:37:55 GMT -5
Not much variety this time. The last batch had 4 different colors. So far, I have 11 black and two yellow, although they're still wet, so the two yellows might be different.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2014 16:39:09 GMT -5
Dud eggs, not chickens. They never developed. Candling is shining a bright light behind the egg to see what's going on inside. Day 7 or 8 you can see the little embryo and all the blood vessels forming in the yolk. By day 15 if it's a good egg, it's practically opaque because it's filling up with baby bird, a dud you can still see through. 13 of the original 21 have hatched. One or two more are working on it. But you can eat the "duds" then, right? Thanks for the explanation. As far as I'm concerned, chickens are for others to raise and for me to eat. I wouldn't want to eat an egg that has been heated up to 100 degrees for two weeks, dud or not.  I take them out to the woods to them, because I think they'll stink to high hell if they break. |
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jun 22, 2014 17:00:30 GMT -5
But you can eat the "duds" then, right? Thanks for the explanation. As far as I'm concerned, chickens are for others to raise and for me to eat. I wouldn't want to eat an egg that has been heated up to 100 degrees for two weeks, dud or not. I take them out to the woods to them, because I think they'll stink to high hell if they break. You could use them to make the North American equivalent of balut eggs. Mmm. Drink in that chick. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2014 17:38:32 GMT -5
I wouldn't want to eat an egg that has been heated up to 100 degrees for two weeks, dud or not. I take them out to the woods to them, because I think they'll stink to high hell if they break. You could use them to make the North American equivalent of balut eggs. Mmm. Drink in that chick. YUCK! |
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Post by TrixAre4Kids on Jun 22, 2014 19:19:10 GMT -5
Next time, mail the duds to Virgil. |
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Post by taz157 on Jun 22, 2014 20:08:08 GMT -5
Next time, mail the duds to Virgil.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2014 20:15:41 GMT -5
Well, here's the new batch (minus one fresh hatch-ling still in the incubator). I started with 21 eggs, tossed out 5 last week that were empty. Of the 16 that remained, 14 hatched. I just checked the last two eggs and one appears to have quit around the 7 day mark, the other one about day 15. So after the last little guy gets himself together and his umbilicus breaks off, I'll move him with the others and shut the bator off. No deaths hatching! Those are kind of depressing.  |
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