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  1. Mareslee

    Dilemma with spiral breeding - can you help?

    Thank you - I appreciate your reply - I don't feel so conflicted now! : )
  2. Mareslee

    Dilemma with spiral breeding - can you help?

    Yes, but it describes ideal progress and doesn't discuss what to do when progress doesn't go to plan :)
  3. Mareslee

    Dilemma with spiral breeding - can you help?

    Sorry, I think I posted this under the wrong category, so re-posted here. I've been running a spiral breeding programme with three pens for three years now, so far so good. Now, though, it is time to retire one of my roosters, the best I've had, but none of his sons are as good as him. I feel...
  4. Mareslee

    Advice please - spiral/ clan breeding programme

    I've been running a spiral breeding programme with three pens for three years now, so far so good. Now, though, it is time to retire one of my roosters, the best I've had, but none of his sons are as good as him. I feel like I'm going backwards in using one of those roosters, but I think I have...
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    Does this chick need to be euthanised?

    Not slippery floor - had paper towel down, but it took quite a while to even get out of the egg once it was completely open. The earlier chick (hatched previous day) started pecking it repeatedly and it just struggled, so removed the older chick to the brooder to give it some peace and it never...
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    Does this chick need to be euthanised?

    I'm afraid i don't think this chick will come right. It has improved a little since i hobbled its legs, but only just manages to keep itself the right way up, mostly with the aid of its wings. It's quite chipper; does try to keep it's body a bit more up than before (more or less beak between...
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    Does this chick need to be euthanised?

    Thank you SO much for replying. I was fully expecting to be told it was a goner so the possibility it might be fixed is great. it's kind of what we thought looked necessary too, but thought we were unrealistic. Ive taped it up, goodness knows if it will work, but really appreciate the back up...
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    Does this chick need to be euthanised?

    I've hatched 3 chicks in an incubator but the second one is looking dodgy. It hatched yesterday (about 18 hours ago) and has fluffed out etc, but something seems to be wrong with its legs. Basically they are spread out to the side and the body just sort of flops forward onto the floor - it...
  9. Mareslee

    How to set out breeding runs?

    I thought I'd have a few chooks for eggs so i built a house and put it in the middle of a decent sized run with access to paddocks (and my garden!) for free ranging. I enjoyed my chooks so much I thought I'd raise a few chicks - and have done so for the last couple of years, but I'd like to get...
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    Help needed re thermostat for home made incubator

    Yes, our mains power is 230V, but we could convert to 12V or DC if necessary. I was wondering earlier if that was an issue, but then saw some references to 230V, so wiped it - perhaps I'd better review that again.
  11. Mareslee

    Help needed re thermostat for home made incubator

    Quote: New Zealand
  12. Mareslee

    Help needed re thermostat for home made incubator

    Ah, ok (this simple project is making me feel very dumb! - probably over thinking it). I've found a "lower water heater thermostat" on ebay that looks a bit like the one in your link, rebelcowboy, though it's a different brand. they don't describe it's specs at all, so i was going to put a...
  13. Mareslee

    Help needed re thermostat for home made incubator

    For some reason I thought reptile ones weren't the right temperature either, but now I see they are about right, only here they are really expensive too! I'll keep looking, though, thanks for the suggestion. I've had a look at rebelcowboy's link, and maybe I was looking at the temperature...
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    Help needed re thermostat for home made incubator

    O dear, not such a great return for all that work! But maybe worth a go if I can't get a thermostat... I guess we could at least make it up without and see how bad the fluctuation is.. I've had a look on ebay and see there seem to be some there, but they don't give enough detail for me to...
  15. Mareslee

    Help needed re thermostat for home made incubator

    So how did you control the temperature? My husband suggests something similar - put a light bulb in, check to see how long it takes to heat up and put it on a timer switch. I had visions of spending 24 hours watching it to work out the timing, and the posts seem to suggest varied temps will...
  16. Mareslee

    Help needed re thermostat for home made incubator

    I read a whole lot of the home made incubator posts and it looked like something I could do, so I started to collect parts... But I seem to be stumped! Most of the thermostats are described as being cheap and easily available, maybe a water heater thermotat. I live in NZ and can find aquarium...
  17. Mareslee

    Mate Rooster to one hen at a time or ??

    Ah, this is really good - it almost seems manageable! I've never known which of my layers were laying except if i got a pullet egg or if one was broody i knew it wasn't her! I'd start practising telling the difference except my SLW seem to have gone off lay for the winter. Illia, don't your...
  18. Mareslee

    Mate Rooster to one hen at a time or ??

    Phew! thanks for all your kind, swift and helpful replies. I suspect I'm about to jump in the deep end, but for my sins I've decided that Blue Laced Red Wyandottes are the chooks for me, despite the fact that it's had to be created here because importation is just not viable. I'm about to get...
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    Mate Rooster to one hen at a time or ??

    I'm embarrassed to ask this question, but i want to know, so here goes: I get the impression that Roosters are normally put in a pen with several hens at once, rather than one at a time. So you can't tell which hen has produced which chicks, can you? Maybe if your hens are known to have very...
  20. Mareslee

    Basic advice for a beginner breeder, please.

    Thank you for your replies, that sounds encouraging! I'll have to start seriously looking for my starter birds. One more dumb question - whenever I look at breeder's websites, they always seem to have pictures of large flocks of birds of different breeds running around together, but surely...
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