Comments on: Open Source Chicken Incubator – Working Prototype Complete http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2010/07/open-source-chicken-incubator-working-prototype-complete/ Building tools for replicable, open source, post-scarcity resilient communities Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:30:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Open Source Ecology update http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2010/07/open-source-chicken-incubator-working-prototype-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-88025 Open Source Ecology update Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:45:19 +0000 http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2064#comment-88025 [...] the open source, self-replicating Fab Lab, or RepLab. We also got the first working prototype of Hexahatch, the automated chicken incubator, in operation. We also deployed Prototype I of a honey extractor. [...] [...] the open source, self-replicating Fab Lab, or RepLab. We also got the first working prototype of Hexahatch, the automated chicken incubator, in operation. We also deployed Prototype I of a honey extractor. [...]

]]> By: Getting Ready To Build: A Better Future | Open Source Ecology http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2010/07/open-source-chicken-incubator-working-prototype-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-87786 Getting Ready To Build: A Better Future | Open Source Ecology Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:13:20 +0000 http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2064#comment-87786 [...] towards optimizing production runs of The Liberator. We also got the first working prototype of Hexahatch, the automated chicken incubator, in operation. Four pips hatched as of now, and we have 70 eggs in [...] [...] towards optimizing production runs of The Liberator. We also got the first working prototype of Hexahatch, the automated chicken incubator, in operation. Four pips hatched as of now, and we have 70 eggs in [...]

]]> By: Edward Miller http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2010/07/open-source-chicken-incubator-working-prototype-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-85932 Edward Miller Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:13:26 +0000 http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2064#comment-85932 Oh definitely. As an ethical vegetarian who opposes factory farming, I wouldn't feel bad about buying from Factor e Farm as it currently exists. The life of the chicken is more important than the slaughter, and I know you let your chickens lead normal lives. Oh definitely. As an ethical vegetarian who opposes factory farming, I wouldn’t feel bad about buying from Factor e Farm as it currently exists. The life of the chicken is more important than the slaughter, and I know you let your chickens lead normal lives.

]]> By: Marcin http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2010/07/open-source-chicken-incubator-working-prototype-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-85921 Marcin Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:31:04 +0000 http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2064#comment-85921 Very interesting. I've never heard of this before. It seems that it's applicable more to factory farms than to regenerative farming operation's such as Joel Salatin's Polyface Farms. Also, we should point out that humane treatment applies to all parts of the chicken growing operation, where gassing chickens before killing does not address all the previous steps of the chicken growing chain. Very interesting. I’ve never heard of this before. It seems that it’s applicable more to factory farms than to regenerative farming operation’s such as Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farms. Also, we should point out that humane treatment applies to all parts of the chicken growing operation, where gassing chickens before killing does not address all the previous steps of the chicken growing chain.

]]> By: Edward Miller http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2010/07/open-source-chicken-incubator-working-prototype-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-85909 Edward Miller Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:04:45 +0000 http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2064#comment-85909 I mean a carbon dioxide and argon mixture. http://ps.fass.org/cgi/reprint/77/12/1815.pdf I mean a carbon dioxide and argon mixture.

http://ps.fass.org/cgi/reprint/77/12/1815.pdf

]]> By: Edward Miller http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2010/07/open-source-chicken-incubator-working-prototype-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-85908 Edward Miller Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:02:36 +0000 http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2064#comment-85908 Have you considered using carbon dioxide in order to ensure painless slaughter of the chickens? Have you considered using carbon dioxide in order to ensure painless slaughter of the chickens?

]]> By: Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth | Open Source Ecology http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2010/07/open-source-chicken-incubator-working-prototype-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-85494 Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth | Open Source Ecology Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:10:34 +0000 http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2064#comment-85494 [...] While we are on the topic of our audiences’ perceptions – we frequently receive comments that we are ‘not really resilient/autonomous/sustainable’ because we can’t do things like ‘clean room technology or production of metals.’ Let’s set this point straight: we are very limited in our ’sufficiency’ all together. We depend wholly on industrial feedstocks, such as metal and hydraulics components, and while we produce some food on the farm, our food still comes from the store. We are off-grid on electricity via solar panels, we harvest our own rainwater, and we can produce biodiesel – but all of these are not truly resilient solutions because the infrastructure used to build these is also largely from the store. Our orchard will be dripping with fruit soon, though it’s still young; and we may have plenty of chicken soon. [...] [...] While we are on the topic of our audiences’ perceptions – we frequently receive comments that we are ‘not really resilient/autonomous/sustainable’ because we can’t do things like ‘clean room technology or production of metals.’ Let’s set this point straight: we are very limited in our ’sufficiency’ all together. We depend wholly on industrial feedstocks, such as metal and hydraulics components, and while we produce some food on the farm, our food still comes from the store. We are off-grid on electricity via solar panels, we harvest our own rainwater, and we can produce biodiesel – but all of these are not truly resilient solutions because the infrastructure used to build these is also largely from the store. Our orchard will be dripping with fruit soon, though it’s still young; and we may have plenty of chicken soon. [...]

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