The little giant is the one causin' me heartache. I put my ready-to-hatch eggs into it after it had been stable for about 6 hours. I got the new frizzle/silkie eggs goin' in the R-Com 20. It's steady as a rock. But the LG was 98.2 when I left this morning, and 100.2 when I got home, so if it stayed in that range, I can tolerate that. Humidity is about 60 and I have sponges in it.
Eggs coming tomorrow will wait 24 hours until the Brinsea Octagon 40 gets here on Thursday (so UPS promises...) and will go in there. I do NOT trust the Little Giant. But I'm new to it. I will keep it as a backup but that's it.
Eggs arriving shortly: Delaware Blue, Salmon Faverolle plus extra banties, bantam buttercups. All will go in the Octagon 40.
If Kelly and I decide to do a bit of a breeding operation sometime in future, I think we'll get a sportsman.
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Moxon going to check on LG again now, behavior possibly slightly OCD.
Eggsplorer II: Mission SMORE
I actually suffer from OCD and it's a struggle i don't have the compulsive hand washing or repeatdly doing things mine's different but it's still hard but i've learned to cope with it.
No i know that wasn't a slur about OCD i just wanted to share that i actually have it.
You're right Harmony, it wasn't a slur, because I've been told I have a mild version of it also, but mine is more things in my head than things in my behaviors. And only certain things. It's more on the obsessive side than the compulsive side, and it's obsessive thinking and analyzing, and usually it's medically related. But I'm actually extremely healthy. Go figure.
Just to be clear, it has NOTHING to do with chickens!!! My chicken obsession is entirely separate. :-)
In all honesty, Harmony, you are not alone. There is a strong current of OCD in my family--but under control it allows a great deal of enjoyment in things other people just walk by:0)
Moxon---Riiiiight!
Thanks i didn't want to sound crazy mine is more compulsive if faced with T Shirts in 10 different colors i will want to buy one in each color because my brain becomes confused about which is the right one. I have to talk myself down and it's so frustrating it's just a T Shirt and i just freeze up it's miserable. But for the most part i can keep it under control i know what to avoid and yes i buy T shirts but ones with stuff on them so theres not just colors. Thats why i can't paint my sister painted ceramics and i tried but there were to many colors and my brain couldn't process which one to use. Chickens thats easy i have no problem with that or do i??LOL
Go ahead, Honey...."My name is Claire and I have 16 different 'bators with 200 eggs, another 42 coming, I am going to Jacob's Cave and I do NOT have a problem with CHICKENS"
dododododoDOO.....yeah Iii'm a believer. Not a traaace of doubt in my mind.
I'm In LOVE ooooooooo I'm a believer I couldn't leave 'er if I tried.....
CF>>>>CF>>>>>>>>>>CF!!!HELP!!!!
Oh wow, Harmony. Stick with chickens. And thank heaven for Ellie -there'll never be more than one of her. How very frustrating!!! Definitely a Tangerine Elephant has unlooked-for advantages...Hugs!!
Harmony - that's so interesting - maybe that is why you like to have so many different colors of doves and pigeons? Maybe I actually have the same thing, because I think it would be cool to have one of each breed of chicken.
Mine is more that I get these things in my head that I have to do. Like I always have to apologize when I see roadkill. I don't say it out loud, but I would feel uncomfortable not saying "sorry" in my mind. And I am totally obsessive about proofreading at work, which is actually a good thing. But I get these thoughts in my head like I might have a certain illness, and then I start to look up symptoms, and I always turn it into something fatal, and I can't fix it until I've had all these tests. Then I fixate on a new illness. It's very irritating. And nothing is ever really wrong.
My name is Claire and I have 4 different bators but only 2 of them are turned on right now because I think the other one might be too dirty because I didn't like the barn where it came from even though I washed it, and the 4th bator hasn't arrived yet but I suppose I technically own it since I paid for it already, and I have 42 eggs in the 2 bators and 36 eggs plus extras on the way, and I'm going to Missouri to meet other people who are as eccentric as I am and I DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CHICKENS!!!!!!
Thanks Claire!! I didn't say you did, if you recall. Of course once all of your egg hatch you very well MAY...
You and Harmony both -truly delightful -you'd know it if you could see my smile!
And then I saw her haaaaatch....
I'm a believer....
Lalalalalala...
I count the rail cars on passing trains. It is important that I do so. Fortunately I don't see them very often. Sometime tiles on bathroom walls.
And I have over 100 boxes and bottles of laundry detergent in my basement. I get them at cost from my former employer's company store. They keep indefinitely--and they are useful. Right.
Oh, and the 1000s of books and all the soap from all the motels I've ever stayed in.
Chickens. I think I am relatively restrained with chickens. Once I have at least one of every kind I am interested in, I will actually try to figure out how to get eggs from them.
If only work wouldn't get in the way, I would have a very full and gratifying life.
I love this place..
My thing is books. All of each author I collect in order, alphabetical.
Then there was the time Barbary check was all the rage in Tokyo. I counted every scarf and handbag and raincoat with that blessed boring pattern until I was dreaming about it. 63 on the way to work one morning!!
Cats -definitely right about those trains. I get upset when something prevents me from getting a good count!
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Counting is good. I count all the ground squirrels I see on the way to evaluate trials. Sometimes I get up into the 20s. They live in sandy soil at the side of the road and they form large colonies. And they are only out in very hot weather--they are diurnal. Someday I will count 100. Someday........
Hey grownut, what were you doing in Tokyo? Or was it remote viewing?
Working and learning Japanese which was my major. Was doing interpreting and translating work (and counting those stupid barbary check scarves) at the end of it, bilingual -or remedial- English at an interpreting school for the bulk of it though. And some DTP.
DTP?
Desktop Publishing, sorry.
No need to apologize. I believe it is a perfectly respectable endeavor--or can be:0)
i thought this was liftoff for hatching?
have ya'll been in the coffee cupboard again?
Commander Moxon is not being a good team leader and we have all gone astray.
yeah!@ blame it on the Canadian...
Naturally. It is the proper thing to do.
Good to know i'm not alone Cat i got mine from my family allso. When my aunt passed i helped getting her house emptied. I found 15 pairs of the same exact shoes under her bed and under another bed i found at least 20 wrapped gifts some never given and others given to her and never opened. I found at least 50 bottles of different hues of pink nail polish and lots of nail files. I have other relatives who i found out had this same thing that had different collections of things.
I wanted to add i've learned to live with this and when faced with with a decision of color or how many when i feel myself tensing or getting nervous i just walk away.
Confession i have 20 old 33 records and i don't have a record player.
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Kelly has about 300 LPs and doesn't have a record player.
I used to do the soap and hand cream from hotels thing. I threw them all out when I moved about 3 years ago. It was very cathartic. I gave all the wrapped soaps to the womens shelter. The creams and shampoos I threw out. Some looked pretty yukky. Now I don't have to keep them any more. Go figure.
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Commander Moxon is highly dismayed with the significant off topic babble when ground crew should be monitoring shuttle conditions. Ground crew should immediately take their role more seriously! Ahem!! Oh, and another thing, the Canadian is never to blame. Ever.
Conditions this morning were 98.3 F and 62% humidity. Incubator not opened. No pips visible. Today is day 20. Crew concerned re: bantie eggs. Last night showed movement inside EE eggs. There are 5 EE eggs. Of course their day should be tomorrow.
Moxon seeking advice on how long bantie eggs should be left in bator.
Over.
Moxon scared the poo turkey out of them by proposing ingestion of said SMORE crew at Jacob's Cave. They no longer want to come out. Crew should apologize, clarify, and regroup for different landing pattern.
#@**# loose-lipped Canadians (I hope that doesn't spell anything!!lol)
Over.
Southern region sorry for off topic would leave eggs in 3 days after hatch date and then candle to avoid throwing out a late hatcher. "TEN HUT" SALUTE! southern region out.
C'n I be South Central Region? Even after the #@**# comment (whatever that spells)?
Over. ***whiiine***
Commander Moxon Permission to have Grow nut join southern region she will be my second in command and in charge of CF alerts. Waiting on confirmation "SALUTE"
Threw out your motel booty! Threw out your motel booty! Mumble, Mumble, Mumble. Obsessing about bags of booty in landfill somewhere......
Yea, the shampoo and creams start separating after about 3 or 4 years. And I am almost always allergic to the soap---but come the collapse of civilization you will be sorry you don't have tiny samples of personal care products to barter with. (Obsessive need to change the former sentence to end "with which to barter"--resisted.)
Incubation alert: The smaller bantam eggs may have been more adversely affected by the high temperatures than the larger eggs.
Northern Pacific Ground Control recommends a mission extension of three days.
Also noted--dereliction of duty by Southern Pacific Ground Control.
Always used the hotel stuff for guest room goodies. Kept in baskets on back of toilet or on counter.
Dereliction of duty by Southern Pacific Ground Control worrisome.
Commander Moxon come in alot of static on the line are you okay DO YOU NEED ASISTANCE!
Commander Moxon here. Dereliction of duty by Southern Pacific Ground control suggests over-indulgence in liquid refreshments. Investigation underway. Possible involvement of CF in said activities. Highly suspicious.
Addition of Private Grownut to South Central Control approved. Upon completion of Mission SMORE, Private Grownut will graduate to Captain Grownut.
Lieutenant Harmony - advice re: bantam eggs gladly accepted. Three day test period initiating now!
Captain Catscan is pushing the envelope. Mission SMORE stands for the types of eggs being hatched, and not for the marshmallow confection commonly served at campfires. Mission officially renamed Mission ROMES to avoid confusion with said crew. Geesh...
Where oh where is General Dusty?
Moxon over.
Well Geesh, yerself! lol. All the eggs you've been accumilating(sp) it was a reasonable assumption...
Bantam crew systems check proceeding according to plan?
over.
Commander Moxon:
Northern Pacific Ground Control morale very low. The Commander has given the commendation to the wrong ground control unit and inaccurately labeled NPCG as agents of confectionery confusion.
Private Grownut. Advisable not to say Geesh to Commander Moxon. Possible demotion or 20 push-ups required.
And it's accumulating. Geesh....
Bantam crew silent. Easter Egger crew active. No pips yet though. :-(
Northern Pacific Ground Control - permission to go get some donuts to improve morale.
mmmph, Sir! Do I have to clap between?
over.