Flora Eerschay

Update: there's actually 14 of them. They must have multiplied in the brooder :D

Done!
I candled the eggs after a week and 7 were empty.
Lockdown started at the end of day 14, because they were wiggling a lot. They started hatching on day 17 and finished on day 18, 2 hatched but didn't make it and 5 didn't hatch.
So there are 13 healthy chicks, 48% of all eggs collected or 65% of the 20 eggs that weren't empty after candling.
Not terrible, considering they were stored for two weeks...

So here is a cute pic of the band - check out the middle guy! He (or she) is the only one of this colour. Most look like the "wild" variety and some look like the "italian" (but of course it's hard to tell on day one).

This reminds me that I have to call the chimney sweep. Which made me think, how do they sweep these rocket mass heaters that seem to have a labirynth of a chimney?

To me, AI is only an ad-free search engine, and a calculator. At least that's where it's not too disappointing, most of the time... it is probably smarter than a regular search engine, but both aren't comparable to a physical library (which probably uses less electricity and other resources too, even though it hires more humans). Most young people don't learn how to use the biggest libraries, before they start higher education. Even then, they usually don't have a clue what to search for and why, and how to understand their findings.

paul wheaton wrote:the setupMy guess is that there are a lot of other solutions.  I would love to add some more permaculture solutions to my list.  Anybody have some more solutions?

There is plenty of other solutions! I teach art students, and although what I teach them to do is "just" art, my favourite students are the ones who already have some practical skills, even if unrelated. Either from learning crafts or from doing simple jobs, sometimes just hobbies or skills that they learned from their parents. They just know how to do things, and are much more independent both in their thinking and when they bring their ideas to life.

Jeremy VanGelder wrote:After all, the students are the customers.

That's not true, although many students believe that, and many universities too; which turns them into corporations. However, the society is the customer, and college should produce well educated professionals, not entertain "customers"...

John F Dean wrote:While the computers did do a great deal more work, they also created more work. In the end, there were no savings.

Imagine scrap yards of the future! Someone will have to repair or recycle all these sophisticated machines... maybe some of them will be fixed by other machines, but my guess is that a human being is needed there.

tel jetson wrote:learn and share skills. don’t need to reinvent the wheel here: if there are community centers, art centers, clubs, religious groups, granges close by, you may as well make good use of them.

That may be a very good alternative to big universities, which have a lot of problems regardless if the students have to pay for them, or not.

Lovely idea! That's something I could do when I move to the countryside.

Eggs walk before they hatch

Fun fact: the eggs in my incubator crawl forward as they roll. It's an egg race!

Let the incubation begin... eggs are more or less two weeks old, the oldest were collected on 28.09 so 3 weeks. I increased the humidity in the beginning in case if they dried a bit during storing time. We'll see!

Looks like a wholesome winter delight! Fun fact: I now got used to quail sizes, so chicken carcass and eggs now seem ginormous to me!

Could also be that some insects tried to eat it while it was still growing, and it's a scar tissue.

That's a responsible hen! The quail hens would just try to eat the chicks I think.