Anyone setting eggs tomorrow (13th March, EDD Apr 3rd)

[raimnel]

we know what u meant!

 

[loopy12]

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Wow!
How big must horses eggs be?

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Sounds like dorm rooms or something...can just see a few hens sneaking into the roos coop late at night giggling and roos throwing stones at the hen's house to get them to come out for a little rendezvous...

When are setting your new eggs?

As for coops as feed. I have two hen houses. One I am going to use as a nursery coop - just for the babies while they are little, and for broodies, as it has a covered run on it. The other one is where all my adults go. I figure once I've rehomed the boys, there will be maybe 8 -10 new girls and I have enough space for that.

Feeder-wise I don't have feed in the coop.

Our hen house is small, just for sleeping and laying, and they free range in the day and there are just a couple of big feed bowls by the hen house.
In the nursery run I have a hanging waterer and a feed bowl that hangs on the wire of the run.
That didn't really help, did it?



I'm thinking I need to cull the last chick

The bubby bit on it navel may be a bit of its insides and its bleeding a bit.
I just don't know. It could be a bit of yolk stuff and may dry up.
It doesn;t seem in pain so I will leave it a little longer

 

[loopy12]

My duck eggs are on day 7.
I am trying to resist candling tonight...want to wait until day 12...

 

[TheReidHomestead]

I think my Muscovy is on day 7 also, give or take a day.

Oh, as far as feeders go, we just use the standard metal feeders and we use layer pellets in them. Are you using layer crumble? I think that can be a LOT messier than the pellets.

Tamara

 

[raimnel]

Loopy ~

horse eggs & dorm rooms

and as far as feed you were of no help!

r u asking me when I'm setting my silkie eggs? After I give up on these 4 eggs, I'm not sure how long I should wait??

1 is on day 24 and the other 3 are on day 22. any help HERE?

Don't cull yet Loopy wait to see what it looks like in a day, If it heals and all................
when did it hatch? I had a bit of a bleeder, it stopped thankfully. the one this morning was being pecked by the other ones, they were eating the cord and ...

 

[raimnel]

tamara, it's supposed to be crumbles however this stuff is almost like dust with half size pellets in it ??? My feed store doesn't carry pellets ????

I think I found something interesting, right now we use a PVC feeder, it's a pvc tube with a bucket bottom as the feed pan (can u imagine it?) I found one also made with PVC but it has a PVC "troth" for the food to run into from a PVC tube. (picture that!, ok if you can't picture it, I'll find some pictures) It might just work except I'm gonna leave the "troth" whole and drill 1-1.5" wholes in it for them to get the food. That'll fix em!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Well that's a bummer that they don't carry pellets!

I can visualize your feeder though and it sounds like it will work. Do you hang it or does it set on the floor? If you hang it, can you set a shallow pan of some sort underneath it to collect anything that falls?

Tamara

 

[raimnel]

I could mount it to the wall or put the "troth" part through the wall and fill it from the outside of the coop. It's really meant to go in the run (well half of it, the other half goes through the run wall.) I think I'm gonna mount it to the wall, it'll be a huge L shape on the wall. I'll just tell everyone that it stands for La Valley!

 

[clothdiaperingmom]

Awwww, that silkie is cute! NONE of mine have a poof like that.
Does that mean I have all boys?????? ACK

 

[loopy12]

The chick I was thinking about culling just died

I don't think he was in pain particularly.
Its sad, but solves that problem I guess.
Now I can clean the incubator etc.
I'm more than happy with the 16 healthy chicks I have.

Sigh.

Onwards and upwards...on to the next hatch.