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No they can be fine, what about the goat shed at night (goats make body heat in the shed I'm sure, (something like a rabbit cage would keep goats & birds separated)? At night they will huddle so they can be in a smaller space, w/ straw hold their body heat if they are not on a perch. You just...

I understand about not having options for electrical outdoors. Can you start weaning them from the heat while still indoors? Get them ok w/ the house temp, then the coldest place in the house? Poss even close the heat vents to a room or closet so it gets colder than the rest of your house, or of...

It is more about them having gotten used to the lower temps step by step. For example mine have been outside 2 wks now, at first w/ heat 24/7 then at night only then none BUT we went up to 70F two days ago and then it dropped to 18F last night *so I put the heat lamp back on* b/c in my mind that...

OK thanks ya'll, I thought that was the case but then again worth checking w/ those who might know something I missed. I have the 1 pure CL & then 6 CL crosses from the NYDH plus the 2 groups of late sets and it is pretty interesting to see them developing. I know I gotta do pictures , but...

On the sex-link barring topic. I read the page, very helpful, & I'm pretty sure the answer to my question is "no telling till they crow/lay" but gotta ask. On the late set eggs that hatched around jan10 I have 3 that were CL roo over EE (mixed mutts, not even sure which of my layers was the...

I'm 419 posts behind, life happened & I totally missed the cute fluffy phase for pictures, but here today at 1month The still un-named, cl pullet hatched from the shipped eggs (she was kinda frightened so not standing tall for the camera) you can see her little mohawk and the salmon feathers...

I had to zip tie color code one batch of chicks last spring. I was suprised how many times I had to change the bands -- you can only make them so roomy when you put them on, or they can fall off or get the back toe caught in them, but then the chicks grow fast & you have to keep a real on it so...

Follow up - the last 2 chicks (Lg cream eggs) which I assisted did not make it. The one I thought was doing better of the 2 passed this afternoon, the other I culled to spare it further suffering. The 3rd green egg (assisted) who I moved to the brooder yesterday is doing great. So of the 3...

Last Set (Dec 19) Hatch -- final results First , since they hached over a 4 count that FOUR DAY period there was obviously hot/cold spot issues in the bator (still air LG way used when I got it, & I was starting to suspect that the right side heating coil is not working fully ie not as hot as...

Still working on the late set hatch which was due Today oddly enough. 2 out for 2 days already, doing great (1 Lg brown egg chick twice the size of the med green (pullet) egg) 2 worked on hatching all yesterday & today , another 1 each Lg brown & med green eggs, assisted some due to humidity...

aaaaaaawwwwwww ducks are so CUTE . I sold mine last fall, swore no more until I had a good sized real pond for them....agh they are soooo CUTE!!! Overall, not sure this green egg I'm assisting will make it or not , always a gamble. I've got a 1 makes it 2 don't ratio on assists & the 2 that...

I have stolen this and will be sending it to my sister in Anchorage Alaska momentarily! Thank you soooo much ;P Bator update -- ok so I'm having to continue to assist the green egg - it's peeping was getting weaker so I candled & made a larger pip near the beak, the chick is malpositioned...

Late set batch update there aren't due til Wed , but 2 hatched monday. I pulled the 2 hatched chicks over to the brooder w/ the NYDH 2, who were initially frightened by the newcomers but all is well now. Meanwhile one of the other (2) green eggs (Good King Henry's) has been peeping w/o pip...

Good King Henry's very first offspring has hatched !! Noisy noisy bugger, the one I heard internal piped last night & now out of the egg and has not stopped shouting the entire 1st hour, also running around (well flopping & dragging & falling but you know) screaming at other eggs to hurry up...

Brown egg pipper has zipped, popped the top, & decided that was a good place to take a short series of naps (I think the chick is fine, likely a full sibling to NYDH #47 who did a 6 hr nap that way prior to exiting the shell. The eggs are very large or poss. even jumbo, the chicks med-lg so that...

Thanks everyone re: Dew. He clearly isn't ready to go yet, he keeps trying to do his duties but is becoming increasingly unable as the days go by so we are trying to find that balance point so he doesn't suffer but does have all the enjoyment he can. I actually wish he would cross on his own, &...

Yes, & this one is a small egg so I shouldn't be suprised. Also I did nudge up the temp & add water last week so again, no big surpise really, just not great timing as I'm about to fall asleep on the cat in my lap, having spent 10 hrs canning today, plus dealing w/ weather & trying to make a...

OR I could get that funny gut feeling & decide to candle eggs due Wed on Sunday at midnight b/f going to sleep, find I HAVE AN INTERNAL PIP ALREADY , & now be waiting for the hatcher to heat up, yep that would be me now... The peeping egg is a green (mutt EE pullet) under my CL Roo...

I've got eggs to go into LD but waiting til tomorrow...fingers crossed on electric staying on... We went from 51 degrees & raining to 34 degrees in 90m mins !! Now we have a layer of ice, w/ almost 2 inches of wet snow on top and it is still snowing. Tomorrow the high is predicted to be 11F w/...

One thing I've done re feather sexing of mutt LF is I look at the group of chicks, the ones whose wing feathers reach the end of their body & have tail feathers starting (angled down) when the others only have half wings, those I assume are pullets, and on that day the ones w/ very little wing...