Chicken TV Live from Briden Farm 21 Feb 2021
This was recorded as a Live Stream, some of it is pretty choppy! Other parts are pretty entertaining. Enjoy!
Our Site was Offline due to a Texas Snow Storm!
When we first started building Websites, we went with an Ontario based website host, a company who keep a large resource computer online that makes it possible for websites to show up on the World Wide Web. Over the years they’ve provided us incredible Hosting Online Conferencing, and the Tools and Support needed to become successful. They even provide training at no extra cost! In 2007, Joel Therien moved the Company to San Antonio, Texas because they have the Internet Fiber and Infrastructure necessary to expand and grow World Wide and continue to provide the website hosting, tools, online tools, and support they’d become known for! It all went very well, until…
This past week Texas, Southern Texas was hit with the worst storm they’ve had in over 50 Years! The whole place was brought to a standstill, streets were covered in ice, and the whole thing came crashing down! San Antonio has no contingency plan, no snow equipment, and no way to deal with any of this other than simply to tell people to stay home and wait for it to melt! After all, Southern Texas doesn’t get snow, or ice, right!?
The good news is, it’s only taken about three days to get our Sites back online, and through it all Joel Therien and GVO have done everything possible to keep us updated, getting us backed up, and and back up, as quickly as possible! Now that’s a Web Host You can Count on!
If You happen to need a great Webhost, at Briden Farm we depend on GVO!
Incubating Chicken Eggs
We’re on Day 19, or is it 18? Some say you count the first day, others say no, some say if you put your eggs in the incubator in the morning you count the day you put them in as day one, others… well You get the idea!
One thing we do know is the Temperature should be 37.5 C, or 99.5 F. It should remain at this throughout and the Incubator should be opened as little as possible! Most say you should only open the Incubator every 6 – 8 hours when you turn the eggs. Although there are those who say You should turn them more often!
Then there’s the matter of moisture, or Humidity! Some say you need to keep it steady between 45-50% Humidity for the first 18 Days. Others say that’s to high and it should only be 25-50% and yet others find more success with Dry Hatches!
So, as You can see, it’s an exact Science! My hypothesis is it’s a science best left to a bird brain like Mother Hen who understands it all better than the best Breeder!
However, with Day Old Chicks that usually sell for just a few dollars currently selling in the $5-$10 range, more and more people are trying to hatch their own eggs! Well, actually Their not really theirs, the poor hen did lay them after all!
That reminds me, we do have Fertilized Hatching Eggs and will hopefully have Day Old Chicks for sale very soon!