Just an update. Lost the second f1 on easter sunday. Such a bummer. Tried all day keeping it alive but took its last breath in my hand. Got another batch in the bator. I'm hoping this doesn't happen to me again. If so I'll be hanging up this lavender project. I don't have the heart to watch...
I clean with a water and light bleach mixture. The incubator is brand new so I dont think an infection coming from there would be the case. Temperature 99.5 the entire 21 days. Humidity 43-50% until last 3 days I ran it about 70%. I did have one day I came home from work and humidity was on 60%...
I have seen it eating and drinking. When they both were alive they actually just hung out in the food tray and ate. Not real active on moving but they were running around when I was in there adjusting things. I had to introduce them to the water but they got it after that. Haven't seen eating or...
The vitamin I added to water is durvet and contains e and thiamine along with many others. Iv used the lamp before without issues and haven't replaced the bulb yet. I run a fob on the light side so not sure about entire brooder temp but I would say its slightly cooler on the shaded side. And yes...
Stays between 32c and 35c depending on room temp. And yes they have a shaded cool side. Feeding purina medicated start and grow crumbles. Dont have a good picture at the moment but I will follow up with one. Here's what I do have
So I'm having an unusual experience with my old english banty chicks. I am working on a lavender birchen project. Ran a small batch of eggs in the bater and ended up with 2 little ones. Hatch went smooth everything was well. 4 days old now and some weird things have been happening in the...
That's the only thing I noticed sdw chicks do seem to be more white than yellow or red I should say. Thanks for your help. I will report back with some feathered pics!
i actually didnt order them just picked them up at a farm store. They were in assortments of w silkie bbr and silver sebright. So I had assumed these were all bbr. But they came from hoovers and they also sell silver duckwing which also look a lot like the bbr chicks. Has me wondering now if I...
I think they look like crele too. How can you confirm cockerel? They are hatchery birds. Were supposed to be all bb red though. If I got a couple crele cockerels I'm not even mad lol
Are these bb red or crele chicks? Or both? I'm thinking the 2 with lighter heads and white in feathering are crele and other 4 are bb red but I'm no expert. Thanks in advance!