Well I have 25 chicks now. They all hatched a day or two early which was surprising. They are supposed to take 21 days to hatch but I guess that they hatched in 19 days. I suppose my temperature in my incubator was a little too high. The temp is supposed to be 99.5 degrees F. I guess I was 100-100.5 I will know next time. (That is if my wife lets me do it again. I accidentally messed up our kitchen table with some water that leaked out. whoops).

They are definitely lots of fun. They are just messy. My dad is going to come get them this weekend. He is going to raise them up.

I would like to give a DIY project on making your own incubator next.

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All you realy need for that is a double pole double throw switching relay. You connect the coil to the electricity in the wall. If the power is on, the switch will swing one way, and if the power is off, it will swing the other way. Then you connect the “on” switch straight to the electricity. When the power is connected, the pump will be plugged in, and will get its power from the outlet. You also will connect the “off” switch to the power inverter. If the power is cut, the relay will change, and your pump will continue to run off of the battery power through the inverter. You simply buy a nice charger that will turn itself off when the battery is charged, and you now have a great DIY battery backup.

Here is a simple parts list found

here.
-Marine 95ah deep cycle battery $45 (auto zone)
-Battery case $10 (auto zone)
-Schumaker auto trickle charger $25 (auto zone)
-Inverter- I used a really nice one that runs about $75, but you can get a 150w for about $40
-120v 3pdt relay (I found cheap 4pdt) $5 (all electronics)
-Extension cord for line in/out of the xfer box $5 (HD)
-misc. components… electrical and project boxes, ac outlet, wire, spade connectors, in-line fuse holder and connectors $20 (all electronics, radio shack)
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~$150**

This could also be used for a battery backup for a computer. See this great project here.

//this is the code for FeedBurner
if( $wp_query->query ==’feed=feed’ ){
header(“Location: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DiyLive/”);
exit;
}
//end of the added code

In this example, you add this code in the file to forward anybody accessing your feed through this address – www.diylive.net/index.php/feed – to your feedburner account at http://feeds.feedburner.com/DiyLive/ {again, you would change DiyLive to your own account}.

I found some bugs in this though. A lot of people were accessing my rss2 feed directly by typing in www.diylive.net/index.php/feed/rss2. This Would bypass the code, and still allow them to see my wordpress feed. I only forwarded about half of my readers to my feedburner account.

With fredfred’s help, I was able to redo the code to make it forward all of my feeds to feedburner, no matter how the specified it.

Now, I had to do some adjustments, First I will show you how to edit the code. For the original part that I added, you need to replace

if( $wp_query->query ==’feed=feed’ )
with

if( $wp_query->query ==’feed=feed’ || $feed == ‘rss2′ || $feed == ‘rss’ || $feed == ‘atom’ || $feed == ‘rdf’)

You would also need to change the line that says
if ($feed == ” || $feed == ‘feed’)

to

if ($feed == ” || $feed == ‘feed’ || $feed == ‘feedburner’)

The next important step is to go to feedburner, and change the original feed to http://www.diylive.net/?feed=feedburner. Now, all of the subscribers will be forwarded to feedburner, but feedburner can still access your wordpress code by stating tht feed=feedburner. Here is a screen shot to show how to set up your feedburner settings.

This is kind of confusing, so I decided to give you the entire code. You can download it here. Just save it as wp-feed.php, and replace your other file. You just want to make sure that you edit it, and where it says header(“Location: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DiyLive”); that you change it to your feedburner address.

Greg