Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

[BarnGoddess01]

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Wynette and I picked them up at Walmart prior to coming home from Newnan. They worked brilliantly.

 

[unkadan]

Wynette and I picked them up at Walmart prior to coming home from Newnan. They worked brilliantly.

Was the bathtub that cold?

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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We actually had a heat lamp on a dozen "day olds" in a dog crate beside the bathtub!!!

We needed the heat packs for the LONG drive home - from Georgia to MIchigan. And those heat packs definitely kept the babies happy.

 

[Robert Blosl]

Thank you. My ordered me four from someone on ebay.

My plan is to put one in a box when shipping chicks and send them earlier than ten days.

If I pack them in a smaller box where they are close to each other and the back is on the floor they should keep warm and make the trip well.

Will put them in a single nest box so the buyer can use the box again to ship something. Thanks for the tip.

 

[3riverschick]

10%off @ brinsea.com with coupon @ this website:

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/02/brooder-safety-fear-heat-lamp.html
Just stumbled across this on the Net.
Best,
Karen

 

[3riverschick]

Hi,
6 of 7 are pipping now. The other one was very cold when I found it. May be clear. Today is day zero on the Brinsea. I can hear them chirping from across the livingroom.
The Mini Advance reads 99.8 instead of standard 99.5, I am guessing that is from the extra moisture from the chicks hatching.
Best,
Karen

 

[MagicChicken]

Has anyone got chicks in the male with a heat pack in the box to keep the chicks warm?

If so who sells these maybe you can give us a direct link to the source so we can order some.

Thank you. bob

Bob, I thought it was interesting that the 25 day-old chicks Duane Urch shipped me in January arrived in a small box with an excelsior pad in the bottom, and no heat pack. They shipped during the longest, coldest spell of hard freezing I can remember in nearly 30 years of living here. I was impressed at how healthy the chicks were when they arrived. Took them two days to get here via Express Mail. Not sure if a smaller shipment would have done as well. Which may be one reason he has a 25 chick minimum order.

Sarah

 

[3riverschick]

Hi,
The Brinsea Mini Advance holds 7 large size fowl eggs. Once they hatch , there is not a lot of room for the other chicks hatching. What do you think of lifting the lid and removing the shell from the incubator so there is more room for the chicks to move around. The other side of this is, what will it do to the humidity and do I need to worry about this?
Thanks,
Karen

 

[cluck-cluck]

The Brinsea is so small and compact that I think it would take very little time for it to reaclimate, especially since the chicks would have increased the humidity by a lot after hatching.. But I don't have first hand experience, so I can't say absolutely for certain. I do believe I recall someone saying it was so a while back though?

 

[NanaKat]

http://www.cutlersupply.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=939. That is a good price for 72 hours of warmth.
In a pinch, a hand warmer under the excelsior pad works ...8 hours at 135 degrees.