Sunny and warm.
It got pretty toasty yesterday. It was 90+ in the shade and there was sun. I mostly stayed under cover and in the house and garage. I did get stuff done. Could have been more, but progress is getting made.
Garden is starting to get shoots. Corn, and watermelon or zukes are poking through. The potatoes continue to grow. I’m up to about 18-24″ of tower bag now. I started with 3″. I’ve only got two bags of dirt left, so that will limit me on my total height. Unless I can get some bags delivered…
I harvested 2 skinny stalks of broccoli and we ate it for dinner tonight. I got some nice sweet peppers too, off the old and new plants. That was the first edible broccoli in years of trying to grow the stuff.
Something, rain or animal or insect, knocked all the beginning limes off my tree. They got to be marble sized, then they were laying on the ground. Dang it, I really like limes.
Broke down the 9 pound pork loin from Costco. Made two ~3 pound roasts, and cut the rest into thick center cut chops. Vac sealed and froze it. Until yesterday I didn’t have room in the freezer.
Dinner tonight was one of the roasts, the two skinny stalks of broccoli, a couple of baked potatoes, apples diced and baked with bacon crumbles and maple syrup, and half a loaf of the Costco heat and eat shelf stable bread.
Speaking of Costco, they start their new policies today. Everyone wears a mask, limited number of people in the store, etc. This is new though-
“Fresh meat purchases are temporarily limited to a total of 3 items per member among the beef, pork and poultry products.”
That sounds like 3 packages of meat protein per visit. Funny that lamb isn’t listed, nor are prepared products like sausage, or spiral sliced ham. I wonder how extensive the limits are? I’d buy beef if I could get a deal and had freezer space.
This is far from over. Some areas are reporting increases in cases and deaths after slight decreases. Everywhere they stayed open, they have 15-20% cases. Expect to see more in 2 weeks… The economic impact is really just starting too. Buffett sold out of all airline stocks. That seems like a no brainer, but it takes actually doing it, and at a loss, to drive the point home. Market disruption barely begins to describe our current situation. There will be opportunities, but I think it’s probably WAY to early to be making new investments.
Keep your eyes open and stay centered so that you can more easily move in any direction. Keep stacking where you can, including knowledge and skills. And stay in to stay safe. Let the other guys figure out if it’s dangerous to get back in the pool…
nick
Buffett sold out of all airline stocks. That seems like a no brainer, but it takes actually doing it, and at a loss, to drive the point home.
That selloff was a huge reversal in position from just February. Between Buffett and his two potential lead investor successors, Berkshire held big positions in four airlines to the point the market believed BRK would just purchase one outright, similar to what happened with BSNF in railroads.
Today will be ugly in airline stocks.
Look at total deaths. In particular, look at what’s happened with cancer deaths and “old age” deaths, if your data are fine-grained enough. And discount the automobile and workplace accidents if you can, because they’ll be down for obvious reasons.
In the US, heart attack and stroke deaths are up (or were; haven’t looked lately) but that’s because of the lockdown and the dempanic. People were afraid to go to the hospital or they called for an ambulance but it was late, so preventable deaths went way up.
Speaking of Costco, they start their new policies today. Everyone wears a mask, limited number of people in the store, etc. This is new though-
“Fresh meat purchases are temporarily limited to a total of 3 items per member among the beef, pork and poultry products.”
Sam’s had a limit of one fresh meat item in Austin on Friday. They kinda-sorta enforced mask kabuki, but weren’t militant about it.
The kabuki will be around for a while, especially at places that cater to the West Coast puckered sphincter mindset like Costco. My wife and I have started to get suspicious about how quickly fairly intricate cloth masks have appeared on the market, much more involved hand work than surgical masks or N95. Someone has put a lot of money into crash building assembly lines somewhere, and they’re going to want that investment to pay off.
People will get tired of the kabuki. Well, at least away from the suburbs of Seattle and Silicon Valley they will. Hopefully, it doesn’t get enshrined in law like airport security gropings.
Those who survive serious cases often have multiple major organ compromises: lung, kidney, liver, digestive system. The key seems to be to prevent progression to or close to ARDS with early treatment. There is an emergency pulmonologist who has had success treating COVID patients. He stresses that the key to treating COVID-19 is realizing there’s no quick fix; all cases differ.
Because he is a working doc, and not in research, he apparently does not publish, or at least I couldn’t find anything. His name is Dr. Shahyar T Yadegar MD, goes by Tom. He practices at a Cedars Sinai branch in the San Fernando Valley. He also supervises about 20 docs at that and one other facility. Because of his early success, only about a week, he has been tasked to take over two other related facilities and spread his techniques.
There are a few lightweight interviews on local TV, but the best I have found is this:
https://youtu.be/nwMZ_U5GqOE
It is a Glenn Beck interview. Regardless of what you think about Beck, this is a good interview. In the interview, Beck said no patient has required a ventilator, and none has died. As of the interview, dated 4-30-20, he had only treated about 20 patients.
I just looked for any newer information, and found this:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/05/04/under-this-doctors-care-most-covid-19-patients-are-recovering/
It is pretty thin, but worth reading.
Things are moving fast. If I had symptoms, I would want this doctor’s methodology.
Thanks for the warning!
Congratulations on your harvest, and on the sprouting seeds! The loss of the limes is a big disappointment. I’m sorry about that. I have never grown citrus, so don’t know anything about what might cause it. In 2018, suddenly at midsummer all the pecan trees – not only mine but most others in the area – dropped their growing nuts. Never learned why. But this year there was a bumper crop.
It is hard to believe isn’t it? I don’t know about hidden stuff (ie some Etsy sellers run factories but claim “handmade designs”, and the MyPillow guy converted one of his factories to making PPE), but a whole lot of it is the real thing, and vast numbers have been made voluntarily by individual women who sew. The minute it was announced, our neighbor, an NP with her doctorate who teaches, said she was having her nursing students make cloth masks for home health and others who needed masks but couldn’t get the N95s. Then all the quilters on my Facebook started making them, each turning our dozens per day using their stock on hand.
Joann Fabrics started a project in early March, they had their employees cut the fabric and gave it out to their customers to make masks to be donated. Women just drove up to the curb and got the material. Their goal was 100 million masks. They recently surpassed that.
It reminds me of the WWI/WWII homefront production by knitters, making socks for “our boys”. Just the people I know have made hundreds each, some for sale and some for donation. I’m so proud of them.
They are still at it, two months later. With Hobby Lobby closed, most bought their supplies at Walmart, but Walmart kept selling out of fabric and elastic. The fabric section was often just as bare as the toilet paper aisle. Then they turned to buying online. There are still shortages of elastic.
WRT masks, there has been a fashion in fitness training to wear a mask and “restrict” airflow so you get more ‘work’ in your workout. Some of that could easily be converted.
See also Wag the Dog, where they make money off of ribbons and a new recording of a song they create… one of the characters just wants the rights to the merch…
And a data point hidden in the sob story-
World Ends Tomorrow-Women, Children, and The Poor Most Affected
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8283879/We-dont-know-end-Hunger-stalks-virus-meat-supplies-drop-historic-lows.html
Said featured unfortunates are illegal aliens, working illegally, and have a shelf full of canned food as well as an enumerated list of stuff that they “stocked up on”.
–this masterful bit of prose from the author– look for the part where he slickly uses the word “citizens”….
—I luv the description of the food stockpile “half eaten bag” “two half-full”. THEY are the ones that ate the first part of the bags, not like they found them on the street…
This is a large and extended family, with money for rent and a pet, vehicles, “CARTONS” of free food, and handouts every day from multiple and far flung places. They clearly have an extensive support network; the sad urchins uttering monosyllabic responses is supposed to evoke Oliver, but really just suggests to me that they don’t speak english; and I can not summon much milk of human kindness. That teat has been sucked dry.
n
From my FEMA daily summary–
“Other Domestic Lifelines
• Food, Water, & Shelter: Cold storage supplies of red meat, pork, and poultry indicate there is enough frozen supply to meet normal demands”
–what about abnormal demand? And what about next year when stocks don’t get replenished?
n
n
The Czech republic was one of the first places with a mask for all mandate. Ordinary citizens started making them, taking extras to various places for dispersal. There were parks where people hung extras from trees, at police stations, etc. They have gotten near 100% compliance.
My wife made some for the two of us and one of my brothers. No elastic, she put ties on them like surgical masks have. You get a better fit around the nose that way if you tie it like you do in surgery – the bottom ties around the neck, the top tie on the crown of the head.
what about next year when stocks don’t get replenished
Did I mention I brought home rabbits this weekend? And 25 lbs of lentils (family indicated given a choice they’d prefer lentils to beans or rice) I’ve got the rabbits set up in the hen house until I can unearth the hutches. Incubator has two dozen eggs in it. Two more dozen fertile eggs on order for a breed I know lay thru the winter. If the USPS can get them here – live chicks have suffered terribly from flight delays with local reports of entire shipments (25 birds) arriving DOA. Eggs suffer delays better.
September I expect to start putting up rabbits and chickens in the freezer. And a few more rabbits every 6 weeks after that. February we will be gathering eggs if all goes as planned.
Rabbits have about a one month gestation, 5-6 babies is typical, and take about 3 months to reach “big enough”. Back to back litters wear out the doe too fast so good idea to have several does and a single buck. Keep them all cages separately for the most part. Have a larger enclosure for the babies to grow up. Hang onto the fastest growing to become your next breeders. Rabbits have modest needs. Slaughter and processing is easier than chickens. Take a modest amount of space to raise, low effort, and good feed:meat conversion. Their waste is inoffensive and even better for the garden than chicken waste (and doesn’t burn if applied too soon).
We’re on about 7k sf in the middle of city folks. Not enough space to be self supporting by any means. Enough to take some of the bite out, perhaps.
Nick, I’ve used hay to finish out potatoes when I ran out of dirt. A little messy but fine.
@jenny, that is really ambitious! And AWESOME!
!!11!!!!
Fanboi squee!
n
In less eleventy news, the scanner has a lot of encrypted traffic on the SWAT channels today. No idea what they’re doing, but they’re pretty chatty about it, and there’s a lot of it.
I have a green card and I get the stimulus payment. I’m no longer unemployed, but my understanding is that if you qualify for unemployment you get the extra payments, no matter what your citizenship status is.
Said featured unfortunates are illegal aliens, working illegally, and have a shelf full of canned food as well as an enumerated list of stuff that they “stocked up on”.
When we lived in Vantucky, the mornings that the weekly meat deals started at Winco, it was always me and the same basic group of illegal alien women stocking up on 69 cents/lb chicken parts.
I’ll add that the showcased family of illegals acted more appropriately than 90% of the rest of the population- they bought bulk food.
n
This is amusing: Coronavirus: The seven types of people who start and spread viral misinformation
The BBC has been exposed as the creators of the “Inject Lysol” myth in a story where they very carefully edited a press conference to make it look like Trump said things he didn’t.
Y’all know the old saying: “The way to become a millionaire in the airline business? Start out as a billionaire.” Seriously, the number of airlines that *actually* make money is very small. The margins are so thin that just about anything destroys that profit. Like Corona.
The thing is: I really don’t see why the airlines need bailed out. The whole industry needs a serious shake-up. Let them go bust, and sell their assets to new ventures that have more sensible business models.
Agreed, as anything else is subject to problems and bias in the reporting. Here are the charts for Switzerland. COVID is pretty clearly a major anomaly for older folk. I’ve seen similar graphs for other countries, but not the US. Added: This seems to be the equivalent data for the US. It seems pretty clear that a lot of excess deaths would have continued to occur, but the lockdown brought them under control.
Was the lockdown worthwhile?
The answer depends on two questions: (1) What is a life worth? (2) What would have happened without the lockdown? I can answer (1) with “under $5 million, probably well under.” Unfortunately, there is no way to answer (2) unless you have access to an alternate reality.
This is far from over. Some areas are reporting increases in cases and deaths after slight decreases. Everywhere they stayed open, they have 15-20% cases. Expect to see more in 2 weeks… The economic impact is really just starting too. Buffett sold out of all airline stocks. That seems like a no brainer, but it takes actually doing it, and at a loss, to drive the point home. Market disruption barely begins to describe our current situation. There will be opportunities, but I think it’s probably WAY to early to be making new investments.
We are going to have to live with this as a normal part of life until we get our herd immunity. It is going to be a hard two years. Unless, we get a vaccine and that does not look good at the moment. One vaccine human trial failed and five more are ongoing. I will wait until the vaccine is proven, I don’t want a third kidney or my two kidneys blown out.
I’ll add that the showcased family of illegals acted more appropriately than 90% of the rest of the population- they bought bulk food.
As I’ve stated before, I doubt that decriminalization of being in the country illegally would result in a flood of poor people from Central and South America. Maybe a couple of million, mostly those capable of taking care of business and reuniting with family.
The problem with decriminalization is that we’ll get the twit classes from Asia, staked by their wealthy families, looking to work on American guilt to get visas for the 10-20 million who will arrive and buy houses in desirable areas, particularly big tech cities on the West Coast, DC, New York, and Austin.
“More than 370 workers at a pork plant in Missouri tested positive for coronavirus. All were asymptomatic”
https://us.cnn.com/2020/05/04/us/triumph-foods-outbreak-missouri/index.html
“373 employees and contract workers at Triumph Foods in Buchanan County, Missouri, have tested positive for coronavirus. All of them were asymptomatic, according to a press release from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.”
I do not understand this. It is almost absurd.
And follows Dr. Oz’s experience in his practice with 90% asymptomatic of his patients that they tested.
If this is true, there is a bunch of Covid Mary’s and Covid Jim’s walking around out there infecting the rest of us. If people do not have symptoms, the only way to know is to test them. And this is not the antibody test, this is the full blown test.
Hat tip to:
http://drudgereport.com/
My question for anyone advocating unrestricted immigration- how many more poorly educated/uneducated manual laborers do we need?
Followup- how many generations before good nutrition and access to healthcare and education turn their children into doctors, lawyers, engineers, programmers, etc?
The woman in the article, with 5 kids, two of whom had started families of their own, KEPT THE WATER GLASSES FILLED.
I posit that unless you go full feudal lord/serfs we can’t afford to support 9 people so that one can fill water glasses.
n
I figure most of the numbers are useless until they do reliable antigen testing on 100% of the population (which will probably never happen, so I may have to settle for an agreeable scientific sampling) to see just how many people actually got it. Then, take that number and pair it with the number of people who died FROM COVID-19 (as opposed to the number who did WITH COVID-19). Until those numbers are known everything else is just talking points for news networks trying to sell advertising and nobody obsessively watches the news when there’s nothing tragic happening.
I looked at some total death rates for the US last week. We are about 0.01% or so ahead of last year.
“Harris County’s stay-at-home order extended through May 20, residents encouraged to report violators”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Harris-County-stay-at-home-order-extended-May-15244814.php
Your papers, bitte !
@Nick, there is one of the masks that Harris County stole from your buddy.
WRT masks, there has been a fashion in fitness training to wear a mask and “restrict” airflow so you get more ‘work’ in your workout. Some of that could easily be converted.
With my limited heart capacity, I have trouble wearing a mask for more than 15 to 20 minutes while wandering through a store. I stop in an unused area for a few minutes and drop the mask to catch up on my oxygen. I had bought a box of the ventilator masks two years after I had my heart surgery but, they got lost in the move. Life sucks some times. And yes, I broke a prepping rule, “One is none, two is one, …”.
https://preparednesshub.com/two-is-one-and-one-is-none-the-art-of-redundancy/
I do note that the death rates *with the lockdown) still somewhat exceed a bad flu season (with no lockdown).
Look at total deaths. In particular, look at what’s happened with cancer deaths and “old age” deaths, if your data are fine-grained enough. And discount the automobile and workplace accidents if you can, because they’ll be down for obvious reasons.
I have noted an interesting fact on the Worldmeters Chinese Flu tally sheet:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
If you change the order from from “Total Cases” where the USA is number one to “Deaths / 1M population” descending (click on the little arrows next to the column header, the USA becomes number 14 in the list at 209 deaths / 1 million population. Discounting the smaller countries like San Marino (number one), the countries Belgium, Spain, Italy, UK, France, Sweden, and Ireland all have more deaths / 1 million population than the USA. Belgium is 684 deaths / 1 million population to Ireland at 267 deaths / 1 million population. Sweden never locked down and is at 274 deaths / 1 million population.
What do these countries all have in common ? The only thing that I can guess is western European and older populations. The fact that Sweden never locked down is very interesting. If the USA had not locked down, would the USA be at the same stats that it is now ?
“Happy Celebration Of Communism Day”
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2020/05/happy-celebration-of-communism-day.html
Some days, not all, Aesop gets it 100% right.
I can hardly wait until AOC becomes el presidente in 2025. We will rue that day from our hot steamy hovels here in south Texas when she makes air conditioning illegal.
Followup- how many generations before good nutrition and access to healthcare and education turn their children into doctors, lawyers, engineers, programmers, etc?
The woman in the article, with 5 kids, two of whom had started families of their own, KEPT THE WATER GLASSES FILLED.
I posit that unless you go full feudal lord/serfs we can’t afford to support 9 people so that one can fill water glasses.
I will guarantee you that the men were working construction somewhere in the big city. They might be day laborers (probably !) but they were working when they wanted to. And mama said get out there and work !
And with the crap schools in the their neighborhoods, the kids will not become engineers and doctors. But they will become nurses if they can read and write English.
Thieving b!tch.
n
I looked at some total death rates for the US last week. We are about 0.01% or so ahead of last year.
I did see some death rates for New York City. The weekly death rates were 2X the average week in NYC for a while.
“Celebrating Diversity”
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2020/04/celebrating-diversity.html
I did not realize that the picture of the rooftop Koreans with rifles was in Los Angeles.
And the moral of this story is, have a throwdown gun for the cops to take away.
Lynn, make one of these to carry with you: https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/051/821/835/original/295a3cf39eb92a8e.png?1588613414
Let me know if you can’t see it. You shouldn’t need to be logged in to a Gab account, but I’m not sure.
I can hardly wait until AOC becomes el presidente in 2025. We will rue that day from our hot steamy hovels here in south Texas when she makes air conditioning illegal.
Despair is a sin. If Cuomo doesn’t run this time, he will run in 2024, and, in the mean time, he controls the party apparatus in charge of the redistricting this year. NY stands to lose three seats. The Cocktail Waitress will have to cut a deal just to keep her cushy current job.
If Cuomo runs and loses this time, Newsom is on deck for 2024 with CA money people and a guide map to winning Texas without Robert Francis.
The earliest you will see the Cocktail Waitress run is 2028, and I still view that as unlikely. Figure 2032 at the earliest.
Lynn, make one of these to carry with you: https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/051/821/835/original/295a3cf39eb92a8e.png?1588613414
Let me know if you can’t see it. You shouldn’t need to be logged in to a Gab account, but I’m not sure.
I can see it. Cute. We aren’t mandatory face masks out here. I wear a face mask to blend in like RBT said. And if I have had the SARS-COV-2, then I should wear the face mask to keep from infecting others.
Another day, another gibberish video from Plugs. All the Redumblicans have to do is run nonstop Plugs’ videos. The man’s brain is mush. I can’t believe all Dumbocrats will just pull the lever for Plugs. Maybe they won’t even vote. Independents will hold their nose and vote for tRump. I’m going to.
The last four or five elections I have not voted for anyone. I have voted against someone.
I looked at some total death rates for the US last week. We are about 0.01% or so ahead of last year.
I did see some death rates for New York City. The weekly death rates were 2X the average week in NYC for a while.
“U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported, C.D.C. Data Suggests”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-death-toll-total.html
WRT masks, there has been a fashion in fitness training to wear a mask and “restrict” airflow so you get more ‘work’ in your workout. Some of that could easily be converted.
Sure, but we’re talking about 10s of millions of masks. Suddenly.
And I’ve seen Publix stuff arbitraged on EBay over the years. Heck, their first non-disposable *grocery bags* were big money for a while. If they produce anything with that logo, they’re screwed if they don’t have mass quantities, and, suddenly, they went from “Oh heck no” on masks to logo-ed masks in a week.
The mask kabuki has big momentum. My concern is that it won’t go away as quickly, and the masks are really only useful for people who are already sick to keep their germs to themselves.
The last four or five elections I have not voted for anyone. I have voted against someone.
Me too.
Not only Presidential elections but all elections, I’m voting against someone. Either a politician who’s more repulsive than his opponents or a bond bill which is attempting to transfer money from earners (eg, myself) to parasites (eg, half the population) or a ballot initiative which is endorsed by someone I can’t stand.
I remember voting for Reagan in 1984, the first year I was old enough. I voted for a couple local people such as a DA I knew. I think that’s it.
RIP. Shula was always a class act in a brutal sports town.
Keep in mind that 2/3 of Shula’s tenure with the Dolphins was spent at the old Orange Bowl, the decrepit stadium you see portrayed as their home in “Ace Ventura Pet Detective”.
https://www.tampabay.com/sports/bucs/2020/05/04/don-shula-the-winningest-coach-in-pro-football-history-has-died/
Not only Presidential elections but all elections, I’m voting against someone. Either a politician who’s more repulsive than his opponents or a bond bill which is attempting to transfer money from earners (eg, myself) to parasites (eg, half the population) or a ballot initiative which is endorsed by someone I can’t stand.
I remember voting for Reagan in 1984, the first year I was old enough. I voted for a couple local people such as a DA I knew. I think that’s it.
I first voted for Reagan in 1980. But I was voting against Jimmy Carter. And I did not join the military because of Jimmy Carter.
I voted against the last two school bond elections. But I voted for the county mobility fund election.
Happily, Oklahoma had zero / null covid deaths in the last 24 hours and only 234 of our 1770 hospital beds are occupied with coronavirus patients.
Happily, Oklahoma had zero / null covid deaths in the last 24 hours and only 234 of our 1770 hospital beds are occupied with coronavirus patients.
Cool ! Hopefully Texas will join you soon. Texas had 7 deaths in the last 24 hours with 1,017 new cases.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/
ok, that’s weird. I’ve been working on my bicycles to get them running and comfortable again. Mainly because I had to dig it out of the garage with the cleaning and organizing I’m doing. And I managed to get tires and inner tubes at auction two months ago, and they’re the right size.
SO I got the mountain bike out, changed the flat innertube, and rode it a bit. The other one needs a different tube, so I went to amazon to order a couple. While there, I decided to get a kickstand for my bike and my wife’s. No luck.
That’s the weird part. Inexpensive kickstands are all sold out or have 3 week delivery times. Pretty much every one I looked at in 2 different styles under $20, so I’m SOL. In 3 weeks it’ll be too hot to ride, and I’ve gone this long without a kickstand, I’m not dropping $40+ on the wife’s and my bikes. I only spent $50 for one of them and $200 for the other.
I wonder if it’s seasonal, because china has issues, or if everyone at home is fixing up a bike?
Freaking weird.
I’ll either go without, or find one locally.
n
Incubating eggs. The barnyard mix eggs are eight days into three weeks of incubation. I bought these off Facebook and didn’t expect much. Of the 24 I bought, seven didn’t make it into the incubator because they were too round or too dirty. Round eggs aren’t viable in my experience. Dirty eggs introduce disease to your incubator.
I weighed and candled the 17 that made it into the incubator tonight. Weighing is a new technique for me – control the humidity to control growth rate of the embryo. Too much weight loss the embryo dies days before hatch. Not enough weight loss the chick drowns at first pip. It is disheartening to have a viable chick die in this fashion.
Candling gave me confirmation of blood vessels and an active embryo on 12 eggs. Two eggs didn’t appear to have blood vessels and no activity. The remaining three I just couldn’t tell. The shell colors range from pale green to dark brown. It can be difficult to tell on dark eggs.
I’ll weigh and candle again Friday and remove the two apparently unproductive eggs if my opinion hasn’t changed. Ditto the three dunnos (I’ll find a brighter flashlight for those eggs).
If I’m lucky the 12 definite will yield eight birds.
I expect the mail order Chantecler eggs to be clean. The producer has an excellent reputation and I can’t imagine him including any poo encrusted eggs as the FB gal did. With luck the USPS won’t ruin them and I’ll be able to set all 24. The outcome of the Chantecler hatch will determine the fate of the barnyard mixes.
I’m using an inexpensive Little Giant brand forced air incubator with automatic turner. I’ve read shipped eggs are fragile and overly sensitive to the vibration of the turner so (assuming they arrive) I’ll have three weeks of manually turning eggs two or three times daily for the Chanteclers. Chanteclers and shipped eggs have lower hatch rates. I’ll be pretty happy if I have four Chantecler hens and one Chantecler rooster this winter.
Wow, that’s a lot more effort than I expected.
n
Ooohhh, now you’re talking. FLASHLIGHTs.
Incubating eggs. The barnyard mix eggs are eight days into three weeks of incubation. I bought these off Facebook and didn’t expect much. Of the 24 I bought, seven didn’t make it into the incubator because they were too round or too dirty. Round eggs aren’t viable in my experience. Dirty eggs introduce disease to your incubator.
I take it that you cannot wash the eggs before you place them into your incubator ?
Neat, the forced air incubator for $150:
https://www.amazon.com/LITTLE-GIANT-Deluxe-Incubator-Turner/dp/B00Q71IX4G?tag=ttgnet-20
more effort
Candling and weighing took maybe 10 minutes? Probably less. It’s only a few seconds per egg. You can also chuck them in the incubator w/turner and ignore until day 18. Remove turner on day 18 so the chicks can hatch and not get hung up on the equipment. But half the fun is seeing the embryos wiggling around.
Manually turning the eggs can be done by alternating slightly raised ends of the incubator. Tilting back and forth moves the egg contents around enough that the eggy stuff inside the shell doesn’t get stuck on one side and kill the embryo. The hen does this shifting around in the next and turning with her beak. It’s quite endearing watching a good broody hen care for her clutch.
Washing eggs before incubating is bad. It removes the protective coating and theoretically drives the poo bacteria into the egg. A lightly dirty egg you may flick off with a fingernail but better bet to stick with clean eggs.
@lynn
Yes, that’s what I’ve got. I think I paid $120 locally. My first incubator w/turner and fan by same mfg were $75, 10 or 15 years ago. I lent it out to I don’t know who.
It’s truly all easier than growing a tomato. And probably cheaper calories in terms of time and money.
Agreed. Just fry them. 🙂
@Marcelo
Mmm. Or poached. On toast and a side of bacon.
Lynn
to be an engineer, you only need patience, read, and perseverance, there arent colleges for geniuses
I strongly disagree. You can’t become an engineer without designing and making things; this takes materials and equipment, often expensive. You need to see the difference between theory and practice; this takes building things, lots of things, in a variety of settings and with a variety of materials. You need to learn how to plan for defects and human error; this take building lots of things, with a variety of people doing the work and a variety of vendors supplying the material. You need to learn to accommodate changes in the requirements or the conditions or the budget or the schedule.
A very small portion of this can be accomplished on your own.
I chuckle every time. 🙂
Nope, your american Bachellor degree is an engineering degree, PE is through an exam that allows you to perform things that needs a license
But, in the end, effort and perseverance, build etc etc , yes, but this is perseverance, I am an enginner, EE in american parlance, after that I went to IT, but, build broke rinse and repeat, yes, this is perseverance.
My point is you doesnt need to be a genius, and, believe me, I was born at four blocks of a slum, I have owrked since 12 and I worked all my High School, College and posgraduate.
sweat ant tears? ok
just my 2 cents