LeroySouthpaw
Chirping
Well, the eggs I bought from eBay arrived. No broken eggs! The incubator and homemade egg turner should be ready tonight!
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Well, the eggs I bought from eBay arrived. No broken eggs! The incubator and homemade egg turner should be ready tonight!
Woohoo!!Good job with the chick.
And you reminded me,
I HAVE FOUR PIPS!!!
So now I need advice really quick and don't have the time to look through the topics. Do I need to separate the new chicks from the mom in order to feed them medicated chick starter or let mom eat it too? I brought the 24 plus hour old chicks inside and they are under the heat lamp. They're not happy about being taken away from mom but another hatched and was out of the nest and I didn't want it to get trampled. It is light rain outside and I am worried the newest chick will get chilled, should I bring it in or take my chances that mom will keep it warm enough? This chicken is outside my basement door in a medium dog carrier and can be brought inside if the rain gets heavier than the light mist we are having. I didn't really expect these eggs to hatch, my silki wouldn't get off her egg so I relocated her to the dog carrier. I knew her eggs weren't fertile so I slipped some warm just laid eggs under her in a period of 2 days she was sitting on 6 eggs. Granddaughter and I walked out the basement door yesterday to check on the silki because she was out of the carrier and to our surprise 3 babies were peeking out from under her. Amazed were we and the thrill can't be put into words. The chicks should all have cochin dads unless my sultun or silki roosters could breed with LF hens! Now that's another topic I need to research. Any advice you guys can post will be soo appreciated. Thanks!
Or you can just feed starter/grower or All Flock to the whole flock and keep oyster shell in a separate container for the layers....the chicks might nibble on some out of curiosity but won't get enough to hurt them, and the hens will take what they need. I've done this for sometime now. Hasn't affected chick health or adult laying and it's also fine for the roosters.You can feed the chick starter to the Broodies withou problems, it's only when they go back to laying they need to avoid it. A rooster can successfully fertilize a hen 4x its size . We had a tiny rooster that kept our large RIR fertile. He was 4 pound, she was 15 pound.
Yay!!!! Go chickies go!!Good job with the chick.
And you reminded me,
I HAVE FOUR PIPS!!!