MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

Still racking my brains! It ain't easy!

[PanBiker]

I have one, I will take a photo of it later.

[David Whipp]

Here's one...

[PanBiker]

I need to make something just like that for the top of my raised bed. Is it something else to do with chickens, maybe to catch the eggs?

[Stanley]

For catching hen droppings?

[David Whipp]

Ian is right that it's poultry related, but not to do with hen muck. (And no, before you start, I'm not talking about the Shades of Grey type!)

[Cathy]

Is it for placing newly sexed baby chickens into, females in one side and males in the other??

[David Whipp]

Is it for placing newly sexed baby chickens into, females in one side and males in the other??

Getting closer, but earlier in the process than that...

(I recall male chicks weren't given the same consideration as females. A sexer visited after each hatching; after sorting the chicks, he took the males away in boxes.)

[chinatyke]

Is it just a tray for collecting the eggs? Then when it was full the brick was used to scramble them?

[StoneRoad]

was it used when candleing eggs???

[Marilyn]

All eggs are put in the tray and it is submerged below water. Is it the dud eggs that float?

[Stanley]

I'm with Maz.....

[Wendyf]

Part of an incubator?

[David Whipp]

Wendy is spot on.

The tray is one of several used to hold eggs in the incubator.

Part way through incubation the eggs were checked by shining a light through them (candeling) to see if they were fertile. If so, they were transferred to another set of trays for hatching out.

When I was a young lad, one of the jobs was helping with the regular candeling.

I doubt Chinatyke would have appreciated scrambling the infertile eggs - they stank!

[PanBiker]

One from me now then:

[Pluggy]

It a bit of garden....
Soil, bit of stone, prunings from rose, weeds.......

[David Whipp]

Badger set in Ian's front garden??

[PanBiker]

I will let a few more have a go then maybe give a clue.

[chinatyke]

It's a camera shy field mouse.

I'm with Pluggy on this one.

[Marilyn]

Is it your 'money pit'?
You know - the hole in the ground where all your money seems to disappear into?

[Stanley]

It's the lair of the Lesser Pea Weevil.

[PanBiker]

Well a few of you seem to have spotted the hole in the middle, question is what's in there. I have to say it's beneficial.

[PostmanPete]

Well a few of you seem to have spotted the hole in the middle

I'm looking into it...!

[Marilyn]

I is looking' in the middle too...
I don't see anything man ( what drugs is you on?).

Anything to do with traycle?

[Marilyn]

Febby ( who must be on drugs too) says he sees a truffle....at great magnification I may add. Febby has never actually, factually ,SEEN a real truffle...but ( hallelujah!) he sees one tonight.

( time for a wine, I think)