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  1. Robert Boyd

    Sad sad day after a very great Easter

    We had a bad rain storm and one of my Turkens drowned, my daughter and I found it while feeding her baby Easter chicks we hatched yesterday morning:^{ It was in the run laying in a puddle. didnt seem to faze my 8 year old cause she got to hand feed her baby australops for the first time, but Im...
  2. Robert Boyd

    thanking all of you for secretly helping us have a wonderful hatch:^}

    We have 8 bouncing baby Easter chicks, and I owe a whole lot of thanks to you guys, from the homemade incubator to using a hygrometer. from setting the eggs to candeling them. from locking down to hatching them... I wouldnt have known how if it wasnt for yall:^} thank you very much...
  3. Robert Boyd

    the count down begins but we lost our friggen camera

    I just removed the egg turner and went into "lockdown" as you guys say its the end of day 17, and the temps have been from 98.1 to 101.1 mostly at 99.1, and the humidity has stayed around 50 percent, dropping to 41 for a few hours once. my kids are bouncing off the walls, and Im getting...
  4. Robert Boyd

    Is this a wyendotte??????

    It favours them in my opinion, but I am horrible at guessing whats what with my chickens. Its 12weeks old in these pictures, (last week)
  5. Robert Boyd

    Is it possible to stunt a chicks growth?

    We got 28 chicks a few months back(12 weeks) there all doing great. but my wife bought some turkens one week later, and made the mistake of putting them in the brooder with the bigger chicks. we lost 3 out of 5, but I built another little pin, and we moved the turkens to there own place. but at...
  6. Robert Boyd

    So my wife got happy in the store, and went chicken math nuts:^}

    and everytime I look at my chickens, I think its a different breed, Could yall help me please?????? at 10 weeks old theres others but Im having the most problems distinguishing the Gray colored birds. thank you:^}
  7. Robert Boyd

    I dont see any coops built out of corrigated metal???

    I have access to tone of corrigated barn metal, and I was wanting to built a coop from it, but I dont see any coops built from it. Is it alright to use or is there a problem with using it? Thanks:^}
  8. Robert Boyd

    I want everything to be perfect for my kiddos (candeling)

    The eggs went in on sunday the 3rd at 11 am. when would yall suggest we do the first candling:^} thanks for everyone in here, I couldnt have even built our bator without you :^}
  9. Robert Boyd

    Its the end of day 3 and I want to make sure all is well

    I have the make shift of all incubators, and in 3 days I havnt had to adjust a thing, I think it may be to good to be true. but I keep checking the temps and there always between 98.6 and 99.8 the light only come on for about a minute or so every thisrty minutes. im worried about humidity, mine...
  10. Robert Boyd

    I didnt know where to put this so ill putit here.

    If every thing times out right my kiddos and I will be hatching babies on easter. Weve got young chickens geese ducks and bunnies. so I was thinking of getting easter candy and Eggs, and putting them all over the place out in front of our chicken run, and telling the kids, that the Easter bunny...
  11. Robert Boyd

    How big of a coop, or how many coops will I need

    I currently have 1 Australop, hen and rooster in the pen along with a cornish hen (another australop roo runnin free in the back yard) Ive got 8 10 week old red stars hens, and one Rooster 3 10 week old new hampshire reds I believe one of these is also a roo. 3 11 week old cornish hens 4...
  12. Robert Boyd

    quick question about incubator heat source

    I have built my own incubator, and im wondering if what ive done will interfere with the incubation. instead of using a light for heat, Ive ligned floor and side walls with a waterbed heater. my heat is locked between 98.9 and 100.3, been there for 6 hours and only hits 101 if I leave the...
  13. Robert Boyd

    hello, and yes im new to this furum and to the chicken world.

    Hello "Peeps" Im Robert My wife and I started raising chickens with our kiddos, to teach responsibility and have a good time "together" Im not sure what kind of chickens we have, and I may have gotten us in over our heads:^} but heres what we have so far. we have 3 black chickens, one is a...
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