Chickens: September 2007 Archives

Having an UBER geek husband has many advantages. He fixes things that are broken and helps to save the day when there is no hope in sight for an old blog.

He also has uber geek friends. UBER geek friends that code PHP (for fun!) and fix the broken things that should have imported everything from the old version of MT into the newest version of MT (which still sux in my opinion but I am going to have to learn to live with it for now) because MT decided to no longer support Berkley DB and use only MySQL instead so that NOTHING would import from one database to the other.

So, for the most part Home Grown is up and running. And so far without 10,000+ spam problems to contend with. Which is a major plus! 

My recipes will be up maybe tonight or tomorrow. We have to run the same scripts and work on the import files some more before we can initialize the install. But I have them all. They are safe and sound and coming to a web page near you soon.

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Some of you have been asking about the eggs I was incubating. The results are not good.

The incubator ran like a charm. Maintained heat and humidity as if it were proffessionally built. My problem  hatching is due mostly to the United States Post Office.

The morning I received the eggs was not good. Many of the eggs in the box where broken although they had been carefully packaged. It was clear that the PO did not handle the box with care. The fragility of the contents didn't matter. I picked up the box from the counter, walked out side and the sickening drip of egg yolk began from the bottom corner of the box.

The seller of the eggs and myself suspected the box had been shaken up and damaged to the point that so many eggs had busted the intact eggs most likely would not hatch. But I crossed my fingers and set them anyway.

The eggs are very hard to candle to test for growth when they are as dark as the welsummer eggs are but still we plotted on for the entire 21 days and even let the eggs go an extra 4 days just to be sure.

We will try again in a couple of weeks and see what happens.

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 I am working on changing the look of this journal to something more in line with my personality but for now this is  what I have to work with. Everything is so very different I have to learn how to write the new snippets of code and where to put them to make things work. It is a giant learning curve here on the farm. I don't know how much time I'll have to work on new templates and shemes but I'll get around to it. Please bare with me while construction is taking place.