the daydream fund challenge thread

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Its knee nobbling cold here,

got a busy day today, we can start setting up another vintage stall instead of tuesday, will just throw some old army stuff on rails and take that down to start with, as we have been so busy in work, havent had time think about and set up a display..to go down there..

Well we nearly won the lottery last night only needed another 5 numbers:rotfl:

This year we were planning on hatching out quite a few chickens and ducks, but think its best to only do a small batches in our small incubator, until we know whats happening..

Have been thinking of phoning some of the local farmers to see if they want to sell a bit of land... think i will think about that a bit longer...lol...

choille

CTC - Do you know what an incubator would cost me - one that does the lot, moisture etc?

Do you think that you could sell your place easily? After the third Winter in the caravan- I wouldn't recommend it unless you can afford to throw money at builders to build it for you.

I got three eggs today - yay.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

CTC - Do you know what an incubator would cost me - one that does the lot, moisture etc?.

Definitely get that sort. We bought an octogon 20 (we weren't thinking big!) last year, to replace an old style manual one...and its ace. we had a 100% hatch rate...even though the temp ran low for a bit. I highly recommend it. Prices differ wildly online....

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

I got three eggs today - yay.

We had to put up 'Sold Out' signs yesterday.:o

We've had some weekly orders too, yet a couple of weeks ago we were giving them away.

It will take a few years to get a feel for how many hens we need, but it's beginning to look as if people will seek out good eggs, as we'd hoped. I suppose the trick will be to keep the same quality as numbers increase. The guy we recently bought our eggs from let their quality slip, and we certainly noticed.

choille

Thanks LIR - I'll try googling.

Dave - Quality is all. Goodness knows what some folks feed their hens? The yolks on the Scot's Greys are orange. Eggs all around the Highlands are really good. Not often you get a pale egg even in caffs.

Well just about dark, blowing a hooley & rain hammering down - must go feed the wooly ones & put the feathers doors down.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

choille

we found this one to be the best small incubator

http://www.ascott.biz/acatalog/Brinsea-Octagon-20-ECO-Auto-Turn-PY400.html

it on a cradle so you dont have to worry about turning the eggs,

they are alot more expensive than other makes, but they are the best, we have a covattutto sp? and i dodnt find the success rate as good as the brinsea...

We buy all our stuff from ascott.

Rummer

Well we did it! We finally got out and working in the garden today . We cleared out the weeds from all of the tyres and 2 of the raised beds and also got one of the long beds dug over. There was also a general tidy up done, as our garden seems to be the stopping point for the wind, so rubbish is always blown into it.

There is as always still loads to do but I feel good that we have started a little bit each day and we will soon be sorted

lostinrates

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

choille

we found this one to be the best small incubator

yep, same as mine.:)

choille

Thanks CTC - sounds like THE one for me - now all I have to do is get some more clutter ebayed & pennies saved. Not as expensive as I thought. Was told a good one would cost £300 - so that's good - seems attainable.

alfie_1

soupdragon10 wrote: »

Don't think the poor things would stand a chance with our super slugs - it's the only reason I try to start everything inside as far as I can, does give them a fighting chance poor things.

If I manage to get the raised beds ready in time this may be possible as I hope to deter slugs using as many means as I can.

re slugs......iv always baked my egg shells when i have the oven on, crush them ,not too small, and sprinkle around suseptible plants. slugs do not like em and stay away...