Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

It makes me want to buy an incubator! Two things: 1) interesting that they moved the incubator (essentially) to the brooder environment at the start of lock down, rather than moving them to the brooder (barn) after hatch. 2) the hatchery birds in the study only traveled from 5-25 hours---the typical here is 40 hours, and up to 48 (longer, but you get dead chicks). So the weight loss and stress would be much worse after the typical 40 hours rather than 5-25 hours as studied. I don't know, but I'd expect the death rate, disease, etc to go up exponentially as time progressed.

I hatch and brood mine in the house. I have the incubator sitting on top of my brooder, so that I don't have to move them far at all.

 

[Geckolady]

I hatch and brood mine in the house. I have the incubator sitting on top of my brooder, so that I don't have to move them far at all.

Mine are in the house, too. They're in adjacent rooms, so it's a matter of seconds from incubator to brooder.

 

[wolfwalker]

We got .6 inches of rain overnight. Another day where my chore list is now halved due to to wet conditions.

 

[Parront]

I found this study interesting, and it makes me sort of glad that I don't buy mine from hatcheries.

Hatching broilers in stables rather than in hatcheries increases animal welfare https://www.thepoultrysite.com/arti...r-than-in-hatcheries-increases-animal-welfare​

The stress of shipping is harmful to chicks. These broiler chicks are even more fragile than our dual-purpose breeds. They want maximum growth, it ought to pay them not to stress the chicks, even a couple of days faster to processing weight with fewer deaths would give these companies a better profit. Out of my shipped ducklings, 17 shipped, 11 survived the first 3 days. It was hot last August! Hatched at home ducklings, 11 hatched, 11 lived.

 

[BlueBaby]

We got .6 inches of rain overnight. Another day where my chore list is now halved due to to wet conditions.

It's thundering but only sprinkling here now. I can't believe that the outside temp right now is only 77-F.

I start lockdown on my hatch on Thursday.

 

[CaroleW]

This is what I saw this morning - 3 hatched before 9am - 1 more starting - 5 no sign of hatch yet.

 

[BlueBaby]

This is what I saw this morning - 3 hatched before 9am - 1 more starting - 5 no sign of hatch yet.

It look's like that little Naked Neck saw you, too!

 

[CaroleW]

It look's like that little Naked Neck saw you, too!

Yes - that's Roger and Cowgirl's - and very lively!

 

[Parront]

This is what I saw this morning - 3 hatched before 9am - 1 more starting - 5 no sign of hatch yet.

1/2 sisters? or full sisters? This is my white NN from @BlueBaby as a chick.

 

[BlueBaby]

Yes - that's Roger and Cowgirl's - and very lively!

So how are the Naked Neck group doing for you up there?