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Comments (30)sydalicious, you really MUST turn the eggs at LEAST two times a day during the hatch. Three is best, but no less than two for sure. Otherwise you just aren't going to have a successful hatch--the turning keeps the developing chick from sticking to the inside of the shell and dying. You don't want to go to all the effort and then have nearly fully developed chicks that die in the shell just short of hatch, do you? Of course not. Just turn the eggs before and after school. It only takes a minute. :) I personally don't candle my eggs, because my hens lay eggs with darker shells that are impossible to see through--also, I am concerned about handling the eggs too much and either dropping them or letting them get too chilled. So I just wait and see what comes out on hatch day. :) I figure if I'm already doing everything I can, and correctly, me candling isn't going to do me any good since I can't see through the shells. But if you get some light-colored eggs and want to candle, by all means try it--here is a site with candling info and great pics: http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/pubcd/b1166-w.html I use great big cardboard boxes for brooder boxes, and just throw them away when I'm done with them. I've got info and pics on my site about how I do my brooder box setups. I just use a large piece of chicken wire for a top (unless you have small children, cats or dogs that might get to the chicks, then use something sturdier) that I can lift on and off. I also like to cut a window in the side of the box and hot glue a piece of hardware cloth over it so the chicks can see out--being n a box for weeks without being able to see out is BORING! And overcrowding and boredom in chicks can lead to pecking, which is a bad thing. Basic brooder box setup: I use a couple of bricks to elevate my food and water containers, it keeps them cleaner by helping keep shavings out of them. Using either a quail waterer (see it in the pics, it has a smaller drinking ring area--or adding marbles to a chick waterer is a MUST--chicks can and do easily drown in water dishes. For heat I use a gooseneck desk lamp with a 75 watt bulb in it, and just adjust the head of the lamp up or down--if the chicks are huddled under it and peeping, they are too cold, if they are avoiding it in a big circle and gasping, they are too hot. In action! :) Here it is from the outside, Millie my Belgian d'Uccle is visiting the chicks: You can easily use wire to partition off a large box: In this case I had three 3 week old chicks and was going to add newly hatched chicks. Velvet ~:>...See MoreFundamental flaw in our education system.
Comments (7)Nick that's a thoughtful post. I agree absolutely that pampering and patting kids on their backs for mediocre achievements is a particularly insidious problem in the North American system. In my mind, it spawns from the phenomenon of emphasizing individuality...the 'everyone is special' type treatment. To put it harshly, at the extreme this behavior breeds an inflated sense of self worth that isn't grounded in any tangible talent. I've observed that this is a definite negative trait that bleeds into other undesirable personality traits (lack of humility, lack of perspective, poor losers etc...) But when it comes to the education system, I think it's a tricky area. Education is not just about academic growth but mental and social growth, right? What happens if a kid is a late bloomer? I wasn't particularly good at math when I was in elementary school or middle school. I remember so clearly that in 5th grade, our math class was divided into three groups based upon intelligence: the Septendecillions, the Trapazoids and the Duodecahedrons, in increasing intelligence. I remember being put into the Septendecillions (the dumbest group) because I had performed poorly on the first math test, and I felt terrible. The other two groups would make fun of us (we were the only group with a name that wasn't a shape), and worst of all, we were stuck in the same group for the rest of the year. I somehow 'got it' in high school, ended up getting one of the highest ranks in math for my class, and I even took second and third year math courses in University. I'm now completing my masters degree and I'll be going to medical school in September - I sure am glad those 5th grade groupings lasted only one year! It's a slippery slope - you're assuming that intelligence is somehow innate, or at least the full capacity of a child manifests at an early stage where 'sorting' can be done. But really, how well developed is a child's work ethic and self motivation at the age of 8? Poor teachers vs good teachers, differences in learning habits are also factors. And really, is doing well on exams sufficient in being a good doctor? In my opinion, high school is probably a good stage at which some sort of sorting can happen, because kids have had a chance to figure out whether they are academically minded or not. Options for more talented students should be available should they have the capacity or drive to take them, but it should be about opening more doors to the capable, rather than closing doors for those who might not be capable(yet). One conceivable solution is to make the whole curriculum more difficult from day 1. You are right; our high school graduates lag far behind high school graduates in other countries. The difference between students from places like China and Korea are astounding. In North America, everyone is special and kids should be allowed to be kids. It's a different culture compared to other places...in Asia, kids take rigorous examinations and are brutally ranked publicly against their classmates. Academically they are superior but they are lacking in creativity and innovation. They also have higher suicide rates...trade-off?...See MoreHybrid F1, Hybrid F2, Heirloom
Comments (20)First, I tried to answer the question about the definition of OP using the same genetic terms that pennyrile used. So that's an attempt to defione an OP based on genetic issues alone. What Trudi posted is a definition based more on a functional basis. Here's what Trudi quoted from her source: (In addition to their long history of use, the heirloom vegetables that are routinely grown from seed are open-pollinated, meaning that they set seed "naturally," often aided by wind, rain, or pollinating insects, and can thus be renewed by sowing the seeds harvested from each generation of plants. Known also as standard or non-hybrid, open-pollinated varieties tend to be stable and true-breeding. They differ from F1 hybrids, which in usual practice result from deliberate crossing of two distinct, highly inbred parent lines. (The term "F1" to describe the hybrid offspring indicates the "first filial" generation, with respect to the parent lines.)) Trudi, I know that definition well and used to use it when asked, but a couple of things about it started bothering me. (are open-pollinated, meaning that they set seed "naturally," often aided by wind, rain, or pollinating insects, and can thus be renewed by sowing the seeds harvested from each generation of plants. Known also as standard or non-hybrid, open-pollinated varieties tend to be stable and true-breeding.) Possible Problem #1; if cross pollinated by pollinating insects a variety is no longer genetically stable, as in true brreding. Possible Problem #2; nothing was said about spontaneous mutations which can also alter varieties. Possible Problem #3. What about all the varieties that were bred by individuals and done so deliberately? Would then one still consider all of TOm Wagner's varieties such as Green Zebra, Green Grape, Elberta Girl and on and on, as OP's b'c they didn't come about via natural means? Same comment for all of the ones bred by joe Bratka such as Snow White, Super Snow White, Ghost, Rabbit, Marizol Purple, aka Marizol Bratka, and all the Sara thises and that's that he bred. Since they were bred are they to be considered OP? s And what about all the ones bred by Joe's father, such as Box Car Willie, Mule Team, Red Barn, Great Divide and Pasture. Are they OP's using the "natural" definition? And there are more examples. ( They differ from F1 hybrids, which in usual practice result from deliberate crossing of two distinct, highly inbred parent lines. (The term "F1" to describe the hybrid offspring indicates the "first filial" generation, with respect to the parent lines.)) The purpose here is to produce F1 seed for sale whereas the deliberate crosses made by Tom Wagner, Joe Bratka, his father, Tad Smith and others is not to produce F1 seed, rather, to dehybridize the F1's that they create to develop OP's from selections at the F2, F3, level, for instance. I guess what I'm saying is that I've know that functional definition of OP for a long time and that goes back to the late 80's. But in more recent years we do have lots of folks making their own crosses, so it seems maybe a bit problematic now to say that an OP can only arise by natural means, forgetting the comment about X pollination by insects. Just something to think about. Carolyn...See MorePlease Educate Me About Paints
Comments (27)Each uber brand has its own color sense about it and it all really depends on who ya ask. I can explain. The final finish of paint matters because we *see* color on many levels. Our eyes see and brain registers color in an order: hue, chroma, lightness. When we sum up an environment as a whole, it's the lightness:darkness contrast that impacts our visual system first. All that means something to how one wishes to color a human environment -- to what degree is entirely a matter of choice. And it's in that choice that one needs to decide what they want, expect, and can tolerate from color. There is no doubt that FPE, F&B, EK, C2, DK, etc. each bring something different to the table. Because of the differing finishes, and because of the differing colorants, and because of the specialized color processes they each have a special quality of nuance to offer. Nuance is where the rubber meets the road with color. That's where all the magic is. That's where it's decide how the spectral curves and ups & downs and ins & outs of a color will play with the inevitably varied and imbalanced unique combination of wavelengths of light in a room. Nuance comes from within color and the components used to create and build that factor each matter -- a lot. The quality of the base in general will matter as will it's whiteness. So the better a can of paint starts out, the better quality of color it's able to deliver. It's the combination of quality base material, caliber of colorant, and art of literal color design, and its final finish or *visual hand* that add up to what we are able to debate, discuss and compare as complexity (or quality of color) and depth of one paint's color attributes to another. Each brand of paint has the potential *to be the best*. It's simply a case of when they are the right fit for human and project. It's kinda difficult to directly compare FPE to F&B in terms of color quality and depth. I can give you a few examples. We've all read differing comments about various brand's: EK colors are muddy, F&B has an odd collection of colors, DK's colors are washed out nothingness, FPE has an array of colors that strike the eye harshly, and on and on... All those comments are true.... according to someone! :~D Color is intensely personal and the huge buffet of paint/color choices available to us means that now, unlike ever before, every paint job is a very custom paint job. Even if the choice is as simple as Home Depot or Lowe's. So we can deconstruct FPE and F&B if we want to. I can see and agree with whatever characteristics someone else is seeing in those color palettes. Essentially, when it comes to color we are all correct about what we see. I hope I answered you fly -- and that I made some sense! I'm feeling I may have rambled on like a crazy lady but I wanted to really answer you with good thoughts and not just bunch adjectives together and call it a color review FPE vs.......See Moresusanlynne48
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