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Five weeks pretty much anytime. I've hatched in January or February several times and haven't kept them under heat after five weeks. My brooder is in the coop and my grow-out pen does not have power, so no supplemental heat. A few considerations. I raise mine in the coop and have a large...

It's been quiet on here a while, glad you woke us back up. I have a hatch going on right now. Since I have a black rat snake in the general area of the coop eating mice and rats, I put five eggs under the broody and set another 14 in the incubator. I don't know how many hatched under the...

Glad to see you here. :frow

Welcome to your home thread from the Northwest corner.

Sometimes mine stays in that range without adding water, sometimes it drops to about 15%. A lot if it depends on the time of the year.

Greetings to you, Macyduck and all the others that have joined that I haven’t personally welcomed. :frow It’s good to see all the new people. This thread is your home. Jump in, tell us about yourself, chat with your neighbors, and help keep this thread friendly and active. Get to know us...

The way I protected against digging predators was to use an apron. Lay a piece of wire mesh about 18” to 24” wide flat on the ground around the coop/run. Then attach it firmly to the bottom of the coop/run. You don’t have to cover it with dirt but if you take up the grass turf to the roots...

I don’t know about most affordable. I don’t recall seeing any at Tractor Supply in Farmington, you might check there first. They normally have better prices than Lowe’s up on MLK for that kind of stuff but I just don’t know what they have. It’s been years since I got any hardware cloth but I...

Hi Prairie Grove. I'm a few minutes east of you.

As long as the inside of your coop stays dry they won’t have any problems.

That’s kind of funny now but I totally understand it was not at all amusing at the time. I’ve grabbed a snake before when I did not now it was a snake, that does something to your heart when you realize it. At least the two of you were able to handle it. It doesn’t take much of an opening...

Guineas are known to roam a lot, who knows what happened there. Was that your only guinea? Maybe if it got scared it just left. One big problem I’ve had is that people like to drop dogs off in the country. My biggest losses have come from dogs abandoned out here. Don’t be sure it isn’t a...

The way I use to break a broody hen is to put her into an elevated cage with a wire bottom for three days and nights. The air flow under her seems to help. She gets food and water but nothing that she can use as a nest. Three days and nights is almost always enough, but if she goes back to...

My test to see if a hen is really broody is that she spends two consecutive nights on the nest instead of in her normal roosting place. To me you have three options. Give her fertile eggs to hatch, give her some day-old chicks to raise, or break her from being broody. What do you want to...

I think you will be fine next week with that. A quick look at my set-up. This is an overall. The Grow-out coop is at the right, the main coop is in the background, and a small holding pen is inside the electric netting. This is my Grow-out coop, a 4’ x 8’. Good wind protection this time of...

Yep. I’d suggest at five weeks looking at out ten day forecast. Just getting by tomorrow morning should be enough but, not knowing your set-up and all that, five weeks age should be plenty safe. We are getting a lot of new people on here lately, which I consider great. In case I haven’t...

I’m not totally sure who’s new and who’s not either, so welcome to all I’ve missed. :frow I’m glad to see all the newer people here, we need the help to keep this thread active. Jump right in and make yourself at home.

Welcome from Prairie Grove. Stay dry!

Welcome to both from the Northwest Corner. :frow Glad you joined us.

:frow Welcome to the forum from the northwest corner. :frow