These guys are 6 weeks old as of yesterday. They had been in my basement up until yesterday. I shut off their heat lamp a week ago and basement is around 60/65 degrees. They all did okay. This week the lowest at night is gonna fall to 39 degrees. Are they feathered enough that I don't need to...
The other 21 were a breeze! I need a bigger incubator. Trouble is I fill it with 24 eggs and am getting anywhere 20 and 24 hatching each round and they run out of room. Thinking I'll invest in a second incubator for day 18 so I can lock thm down in 2 so they have more room!
We had 21 chicks hatch. It had been 36 hours since the last two chicks started hatching. We took the other 21 out and thought we must have shrunk wrapped these last two .. I think we helped to soon but I figured we were going to loose them anyways so tried to assist... the membranes were...