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  1. ShirleyTheHen21

    How is this as a homemade incubator ?

    Np I started with 12 eggs, 9 ended up hatching. It probably would’ve been 10 or 11 but one had a blood ring after several days and another somehow cracked while in the incubator after a few days. I kept all chicks for the first 2 weeks, then gave all but 2 away, back to the farmer I bought the...
  2. ShirleyTheHen21

    How is this as a homemade incubator ?

    Sorry all, never got any notifications for new replies here. It did work perfectly for the first 18 days, but the space heater developed a problem after that; it would randomly shut off on its own at irregular intervals, say, once every 4 hours, then again after 5 hours, or something like that...
  3. ShirleyTheHen21

    What gender are these?

    So here they are again this time at 6 weeks old. I had to give them away to someone else yesterday so these are the last pics I’ll get to guess the gender until I go visit them next which will probably not be for another month. Can anyone tell at this point? I’m still thinking the white one is a...
  4. ShirleyTheHen21

    What gender are these?

    I’ll be back in 3 weeks then!
  5. ShirleyTheHen21

    What gender are these?

    I got them as eggs (they were light blue) from a guy and hatched them here. He said they were azure breed and that the grey color could have been from the Cream Legbar dominance in the azure and that there were Welsummer as well.
  6. ShirleyTheHen21

    What gender are these?

    Hi, I have 2 chicks, azure breed I believe. They are 21 days old (exactly 3 weeks) old today. I was wondering if anyone could tell by now what gender either of them are from these pictures. I put pictures of their wings and feathers and of their combs up close, I think those are the 2 things...
  7. ShirleyTheHen21

    How is this as a homemade incubator ?

    So as for using a fan for air flow, that obviously does work but for me whenever I try any kind of fan it blows cool air and lowers the temp in the bator, but in my case my space heater blows hot air to heat it so I guess I don’t need another air flow source since the heater combines as one...
  8. ShirleyTheHen21

    How is this as a homemade incubator ?

    Thanks…for yours though, with a bulb as the heat source, how would you get air flow? Do you really need that or do you have another way to get it with that one?
  9. ShirleyTheHen21

    How is this as a homemade incubator ?

    I made an incubator for my chicken eggs recently and this is basically how it works: It’s a laundry basket (with holes all over all 4 sides) and the heat source is a mini space heater. It’s about 18 inches away from the basket. It blows hot air so it also acts as air flow. I taped all the holes...
  10. ShirleyTheHen21

    First hen killed by raccoon this morning :(

    As for the future, I definitely want to try this again with more chickens and preparation, dedication, commitment, etc. and will do everything I can to prevent something like this from happening again, the only problem is I don't have my own land right now and did this on someone else's so it...
  11. ShirleyTheHen21

    First hen killed by raccoon this morning :(

    Thanks very much, I would want to build a better coop and run but also want them to free range during the day, and while I know some sort of electric fencing all around the yard and going down several feet deep would keep pretty much any climbing/digging predators out but I wouldn't necessarily...
  12. ShirleyTheHen21

    First hen killed by raccoon this morning :(

    Thank you, appreciated. When I do this again with more one day, I wanted to have them free range as much as possible too, but was wondering how would they be safe from day predators then? I'm thinking they would be safer just in a fenced in run all day but then they wouldn't have as much free...
  13. ShirleyTheHen21

    First hen killed by raccoon this morning :(

    I recently (5 days ago) got my first chicken; I had wanted one for a while but knew nothing about them and impulsively bought a 15 month old lohmann brown hen from someone off kijiji. I was not prepared at all for any of it and didn’t know how it would go but thought I would get stuff going as...
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