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Sneaky little 45F down there at MVY

okay. Thinking maybe it’s rust since my path to the chickens is still green (probably rubs off).

I have some fungal? issue going on with the cold season grass. The top 2-3” ends of the grass blades have turned a bright yellow while the bottom halves are deep green. This has happened over the last 2 weeks with little rain and low dews. It doesn’t look like red thread based on the examples I’ve seen.

I don't want Scoot to see a dew of 28F on his Davis Monday afternoon and chuck it out into the Atlantic for bad data.

Saved for posterity

Yeah the eggshell works. I'm just too lazy to do that. Hopefully the 3 integrate well. The sooner they interact the better.

lol what are the hires models doing with sub 32F dews in E MA Monday afternoon?

Go Expos.

I've always considered that fearmongering that started from feed companies. There's this myth that too much protein will make them fat or if you don't use layer feed they'll struggle to produce shells from lack of calcium. I think a lot of it is hogwash. Protein doesn't make any animal fat...it helps build muscle/strength. Let them free range 100% of the time and all they will eat is bugs/worms and vegetation. Soy is an incomplete protein and can disrupt hormones and corn is very low in nutritional density. Soy and corn are very cheap too so that's why these feed companies love to use it. I give oyster shell on the side for the girls that think they need the extra calcium, but that's it. One of my 2 8 year olds is still laying...in fact she pushed one out today. 5 of my 8 7 year olds are still alive too...knock on wood.

Nah we wet here…at least in the back where the sensor is.

More concerned about the regular temp. It looks okay on charts, but if one aspect of the sensor is going then it's possible the air temp is drifting too. I noticed something was wrong last week when my RH hit 100%. I don't think the sensor ever read above 98% since I got it and not over 95% in a couple of years.

How old is she? The beak looks like NBD to me. The little spot on the comb looks minor too. Her comb and wattles are vibrant so she looks okay to me. I have some molting already so it's possible she's starting to hormonally shift into the molt phase and stopping egg production. But if she's your only one left then yeah, she's probably pretty lonely unless she was a loner to begin with. How do you know one had a tumor? Necropsy? A lot (not all) of my egg laying/reproductive issues diminished after switching to soy free feed. I do corn free now as well and supplement with a lot of mealworms, sunflower chips, and sardines, but yeah...$$$.

OK some will be happy to know I replaced the faulty temp/hum sensor. I have my old high response Sensirion SHT-75 in there until a new Davis one arrives. This has a lot less thermal mass than the Davis so it responds quickly to temperature changes...probably similar to ASOS except ASOS averages its official readings over a 5 minute period to smooth the data out.

Who cares. It's a spider. Embrace them.

Rattlesnake Island on Winni has a ton of those types of nuts/hulls. I haven’t been up there since the late 90s so I don’t know the species, but they were hickory. My friend called them pignuts, but they may have been shagbark or shellbark too.

@kdxken

Maybe we can get Scoot’s data online someday. I think even Kev got his online quicker.

Dews are the least of my concern. I’ll put an old sensor in once we come down off the daily high.

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I need some closeups of the chestnut leaves.

But yeah…dew sensor has been acting up for days. Time for a new one. Temp is fine.

lol…didn’t even notice. Don’t care.

At least you’ll be warmer in winter

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