Mike CHS
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I try not to use extension cords if I can keep from it. Even in my shop the majority of plugs are in the overhead metal trusses.
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Bruce
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And you are!I always try to be helpful...even from far-far away....
4 eggs today. One from Nuit (2015 BA), one from an Exchequer Leghorn, one from Cassie (EE) and Veronica's (Welsummer) 3rd egg. Cassie managed to get up into USDA Medium (barely) with this one.
Mike CHS
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We had one egg today that had a visible line around it like it had cracked and then sealed back. Never saw that before.
Mini Horses
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Are your girls molting &/or odd lay habits with lessening light? I find that during this transition time there are some odd things. An almost round egg, a long one, odd deposits of shell material that looks lumpy or like sand added on. LOL Not every day but during this time of year. I don't add light in winter, so laying takes a rest for many. I'll still get eggs, just not like Spring & Summer. New hens should start within the next month. They are EEs so should be some fun eggs.
babsbag
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What ???? Are you telling me that extension cords are not for using as a permanent cord that is run across the driveway and driven over multiple times a day? Are you telling me that my DH has been doing this wrong for these last nine years?
I dug a trench, (well my bobcat did) and ran 2" conduit and placed an ungodly size of service wire in it, (I believe it was 1-1-1-3) for the dairy trailers and I still have an extension cord running across the driveway.
I dug a trench, (well my bobcat did) and ran 2" conduit and placed an ungodly size of service wire in it, (I believe it was 1-1-1-3) for the dairy trailers and I still have an extension cord running across the driveway.
Pastor Dave
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greybeard
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There is wire that comes closer to being rated for being strung across a driveway that gets occasional use, tho I can't really recommend it for being run over daily.
It has a thicker weather resistant outer covering, is very flexible and has more paper leader inside.
Look for soow, seoow, and sjoow. Good abrasive resistance in sjoow and soow.
https://solutions.borderstates.com/soow-seoow-and-stoow-what-is-the-difference/
(I used a lot of it in different applications where vehicular traffic and weather exposure was common, it ain't cheap tho.)
babsbag
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I really just want him to put in a couple of weather resistant outlets and get rid of the extension cord. He knows that it is only "temporary", the sub panel has a ton of room, it is just a matter of finding the time. When he is gone all week it makes for busy weekends and that is supposed to be his "rest" time from work too. I keep him pretty occupied with projects.
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Bruce
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Zorra was laying eggs like that this past year before she started to moult. Almost like they hit a "hard narrow" spot in the shell works that kinda crunched the fat middle part. It was odd, but they all seemed to be properly "resealed".
@Mini Horses, the 2 Y/O girls that are still laying (ie the 4 that are not moulting) are actually laying LARGER eggs that normal for them. I think maybe because while they were laying like gang busters all summer, they are slowing down, one egg every 2 or 3 days now so they have the "resources" to "supersize" them.
I don't do winter light either. I figure (hopefully) that they may lay longer if they don't get worn out early. One of the 2 Y/O that is moulting OFTEN has small "calcium balls" on her normal eggs. They are smaller than a grain of salt and rub off if one cares. Pretty much finished up the "winter water source" today. I put enough water in it to cover the drain cock, just to make sure it doesn't leak. Probably should have done that BEFORE making the enclosure. Just my luck, it will leak. Looked OK right after I added the water though. I still need to get a hose. I found a 3' one in the workshop from "I don't know where and I don't know how old" and need to test it to make sure the end fittings are OK. The spigot doesn't leave much room for a hose, it faces almost straight down and is only a couple of inches above the bottom.
There are some chickens that are going to be pooping Panther Pink
D@mn things couldn't give me ONE morning to get the lower half of the rigid foam enclosure covered with something. Pecked out 3 of the corners (2" foam!), before I went down at 9:30. I encased it in cardboard and used spray foam afterward to fill in those corners. Then I went to get another sheet of foam so I could make the top half of the enclosure. I also got another rubber stopper for the heated waterer for the chickens' "in coop" nipple pipe. I've always just laid the lid on top over the cords for the aquarium heater and the reptile waterfall pump. But there is always some dust that gets in. Since the rubber plug for the "winter water source" worked well, I figured I might as well put one in the middle of the screw on lid of the 5 gallon drink "cooler". I also cleaned out the "cooler" as I do every fall.
Mike CHS
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At the least all of this work might make not having to haul water so much better doing the chores.
