Arizona Chickens

[gckiddhouse]

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I'm pullin' for you and your growing chickies!!!

 

[gckiddhouse]

I was trying to create a BYC page for my incubator but couldn't get any pics to go on the page. Any advice???

Here is my incubator - homemade!

I removed the thermostat and have installed a dimmer switch. The temps are already stabilizing!! We will see...

 

[LarryPQ]

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I'm headed over there tomorrow.

I must resist purchase.

IME, they have always taken good care of their animals, so I bet those older chicks are just unlucky: Too big to be in the big pen with the day olds, but not cute enough to get purchased. Now they are stuck in little cages, bored.

If I can convince the manager to sell 'em to me cheap (and promise to buy all the meds they'll need there), I will pick them up. But I can't help but think I am just perpetuating the system. AACK! When did I become all **insert the dirty non-allowed on BYC acronym here**?

There is a word for people like me: SUCKER.

BTW- That incubator ROCKS!

 

[LarryPQ]

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Yes: to get the images in, you have to:

Click uploads/myuploads
Then click on the picture you want so it is in its own browser window.
Hit "Control A" or "select all",
Then "Control C" or "copy" ,
Go back to your webpage
Hit "Control V" or "Paste"

You should see this screen for copy/paste
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/36979_260px-century_egg_sliced_open.jpg

 

[redrocketrooster]

I hope they hatch into biggens for you all.

I don't quite understand what the Stock Shop is but I think it's better not to purchase those birds...supply and demand right?
I know it's so very sad but it really doesn't help anyone. It's just like BYBs with their dogs covered in mud for $300.
Unless the shop works in another way! Then im just spewing spit shine.

 

[LarryPQ]

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It is a feed store...not my favorite, but it is huge, with better selection.

I live with an economist, so I won't argue supply & demand with you

--but I will say S&D only works in the macro. Right now, in the micro, there are birds that need a home, and I am the sucker who will do it. BUT, if I can shiester the manager into selling them for cheap, it WILL hit them where it matters: the wallet--- which can stimulate change.

 

[redrocketrooster]

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It is a feed store...not my favorite, but it is huge, with better selection.

I live with an economist, so I won't argue supply & demand with you

--but I will say S&D only works in the macro. Right now, in the micro, there are birds that need a home, and I am the sucker who will do it. BUT, if I can shiester the manager into selling them for cheap, it WILL hit them where it matters: the wallet--- which can stimulate change.

Better yet if you can get them to let them go for free (not happening). Poor babies.
Im sure though once they get older they are culled for meat or turned into producers, they aren't missing much I don't think.

 

[redrocketrooster]

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Oh well that's not really what I meant. But Id rather be spoiled too. I meant that the store will either cull them or turn them into egg layers. Either way they don't loose but hopefully you are right about them possibly changing.

Erg. This is WAY off topic of chickens but now Im in a pickle. I raise rats for feeders sometimes. Recently I bred my sweetest girl to my sweetest boy. Oh boy what a mistake.
Now one of the boys that came out of them is a flat out lazy adorable ham who sits in your hands all day. He is a biggen too.
I can't bring myself to c02 him or feed him away. Anybody want him? Im not asking anything for him. C:

 

[gckiddhouse]

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Yes: to get the images in, you have to:

Click uploads/myuploads
Then click on the picture you want so it is in its own browser window.
Hit "Control A" or "select all",
Then "Control C" or "copy" ,
Go back to your webpage
Hit "Control V" or "Paste"

You should see this screen for copy/paste
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/36979_260px-century_egg_sliced_open.jpg

THAT worked!! Yay!! Thank you!!

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

The Stock Shop is a feed store in Glendale. That's where I buy all my feed & have purchased most of my chicks. They don't normally have older chicks, but like Laree said, these chicks got too old for the baby pen and they don't have another place to put the larger chicks. They get day olds in almost every week and have some cages for roosters & hens that people bring for them to rehome (those chickens are usually sold pretty fast).

Carol - your incubator looks great! Is it made out of a styrofoam igloo? Once you get it stabilized, just know that it will take awhile to get back to the right temperature once you add your eggs - the humidity will go up quite a bit too, but shouldn't stay up. My biggest tip - start the eggs in the daytime. I started mine at 8 p.m. and was up till 2 a.m. making sure the temps were stabilized before I went to bed (I tweeked the dimmer just a little about 4 hours after the eggs were added and needed to make sure the temps had stopped climbing before going to bed.)

I think my thermometers have finally caught up to each other (I think some just take a LOT longer to register changes). Last night & this morning all 4 were within 1/2 degree of each other - this morning they were the same. When I took the fan out to turn it around, it took me a while to find the right temp again with the dimmer - then with taking the lid off to turn eggs, I think the slow thermometers just couldn't keep up with the temperature changes. Hopefully, they will keep reading closer together.