BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[JRNash]

With the rain and wind, temps in the high 60's overnight. I'm. Glad I put out anotherbrooder light.Damp cool air allways makes me sick. Can't be good for my chicks either

 

[bnjrob]

Hunker down! We're supposed to hit 103 in the next couple days.

Somebody forgot to tell Mother Nature that it's Autumn and time to cool it down.

Autumn? Is that a season? If so, we don't have that here. Here our seasons are Hot, Hotter, Hottest, and Christmas.

 

[draye]

Autumn?  Is that a season?  If so, we don't have that here.  Here our seasons are Hot, Hotter, Hottest, and Christmas.

We have two seasons in Arkansas.
Extra hot and freezing.

 

[bnjrob]

We have two seasons in Arkansas.
Extra hot and freezing.

 

[3riverschick]

ok, need some advice from the list. Got a guy on another BYC thread who has day old chicks he wants to keep in a draft free , unheated coop. Temps ranging from 45 to 25 degrees. He wants to know how to keep them warm. I don't think he has hens to help. Anyone?
Thanks,
Karen

 

[3riverschick]

Hi,
My hens are so confused! The rest of the flock is in fall molt and 2 of my hens are sitting eggs and hatching chicks!!! It's almost Oct.! This isn't right. Summer was cold and rainy. Now we are in Indian Summer and I think my hens it is real summer. Sigh. It seems if hens are sitting eggs, or hatching chicks, or caring for chicks they don't molt with the rest of the flock. Yes?
Best,
Karen

 

[Beer can]

ok, need some advice from the list. Got a guy on another BYC thread who has day old chicks he wants to keep in a draft free , unheated coop. Temps ranging from 45 to 25 degrees. He wants to know how to keep them warm. I don't think he has hens to help. Anyone?
Thanks,
Karen

I've heard good things on the 'premier heat plate'.

 

[draye]

ok, need some advice from the list. Got  a guy on another BYC thread who has day old chicks he wants to keep in a draft free , unheated coop. Temps ranging from 45 to 25 degrees. He wants to know how to keep them warm. I don't think he has hens to help. Anyone?
 Thanks,
 Karen

Without lights ( heat lamp) he'd have to pack in a bunch of chicks to get enough body heat for them to survive. I don't think he'd be able to raise them without some kind of heat lamp for them.

Oh well people get ideas that nature can take care if everything. And most of the time it can but sometimes it needs to be helped along.

I myself have decided that putting chicks in the ground is way better than man made brooder s. I have way less deaths of chicks on the ground than when I was putting them in the big hard plastic type ( horse water trough) brooders.

 

[gevshiba]

It's flooding down here in Texas

Maybe it's flooding in your part of TX, but it's hot and too dry in my part of TX.

 

[gevshiba]

ok, need some advice from the list. Got a guy on another BYC thread who has day old chicks he wants to keep in a draft free , unheated coop. Temps ranging from 45 to 25 degrees. He wants to know how to keep them warm. I don't think he has hens to help. Anyone?
Thanks,
Karen

What about a brooder bucket or box with fleece strips? BYC member Kassaundra has instructions somewhere.