CHICKEN SWAPS OF NH SWAP LISTINGS

[1Chick Magnet]

The cochin girls are really sweet too......they don't put up any kind of fuss when you pick them up at all

glad you had fun at the show. congrats on the new kids. now I bet you know how hard it is to go to a show and come home with nothing. I do remember you saying that you would not buy anything.

 

[1Chick Magnet]

That's awesome! I suppose I am pedicting whatever you're predicting because all 15 are from you! Can't wait to see what we get!!!!! If only they would hurry up already! I am not patient when I wanna see babies!

I am in the incubator room every 10 minutes hoping to see pips and day 18 is not even over yet!!!!!!! Gonna be a really really long days 19, 20 and 21!!!!!!!

you have no idea how exciting it is to see your first chick hatch. best of luck.

 

[ChickenPrnces]

you have no idea how exciting it is to see your first chick hatch. best of luck.

Thanks Janet! I am soooooooo excited it is not even funny anymore! I'm about 2.5 hours away from day 20 and have now worn a hole in the rug to the incubator room! My kitchen table has lost a chair to the incubator room! If I don't at least see pips soon I might suffer from exhaustion or a heart attack! Not sure which will come first!

 

[ChickenPrnces]

Bad day today! Through all the excitment of babies almost here I lost 2 babies today! They were 2 months old and had been living outside in a nice little coop that I got them! Had a heat lamp rigged up! Should have been fine! One baby snuck through a small gap in the spot where the retractable ramp meets the floor and froze to death in the run! The other somehow managed to freeze in the coop with the heat lamp! Sooooo bummed I could actually cry!!!!!

 

[1Chick Magnet]

I have lost hours and hours to the incubator. I usually have a chair at the bator too. I eventually came to the conclusion that I should hatch eggs hatch while I was at work. you always want to help them even if you know you shouldn't. better put some meals in the freezer. there will be no cooking on hatch day. trust me.

Thanks Janet! I am soooooooo excited it is not even funny anymore! I'm about 2.5 hours away from day 20 and have now worn a hole in the rug to the incubator room! My kitchen table has lost a chair to the incubator room! If I don't at least see pips soon I might suffer from exhaustion or a heart attack! Not sure which will come first!

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

have you brought them in to see if you could warm them up? i've heard of stories about how someone thought their birds had frozen to death just to bring them inside to warm up and have them spring back to life!

 

[ChickenPrnces]

Yeah we wrapped them in microwaved towels and steamed up the bathroom! They were gone!

 

[1Chick Magnet]

Bad day today! Through all the excitment of babies almost here I lost 2 babies today! They were 2 months old and had been living outside in a nice little coop that I got them! Had a heat lamp rigged up! Should have been fine! One baby snuck through a small gap in the spot where the retractable ramp meets the floor and froze to death in the run! The other somehow managed to freeze in the coop with the heat lamp! Sooooo bummed I could actually cry!!!!!

sorry for your loss. at these temps I am worried about adults freezing. I go out at night to make sure everyone is on the perch and nobody is wet. I go into the coop with a small flashlight so they don't get up. I even rearrange them to make sure the most delicate are not on the end and put them next to someone big and fluffy. tonight everyone got snow on top of the frozen water. it froze solid in just 2 hours. babies sneak through the smallest places and if not close enough to the light......winter is tough on critters. A big problem with little ones outside would be a power outage when you are sleeping or away from home. I am glad we live indoors.

 

[ChickenPrnces]

sorry for your loss. at these temps I am worried about adults freezing. I go out at night to make sure everyone is on the perch and nobody is wet. I go into the coop with a small flashlight so they don't get up. I even rearrange them to make sure the most delicate are not on the end and put them next to someone big and fluffy. tonight everyone got snow on top of the frozen water. it froze solid in just 2 hours. babies sneak through the smallest places and if not close enough to the light......winter is tough on critters. A big problem with little ones outside would be a power outage when you are sleeping or away from home. I am glad we live indoors.

Yeah I really wish there was somewhere inside I could put them but they are just too big! It would take 4 of my brooders (I only have 2) just for the 7 of them! They have all there feathers and we changed out the light bulb they had in their coop to a 125w heat lamp bulb! Hoping it helps more than the 100w regular bulb that was in there!!

 

[jeepchick]

glad you had fun at the show. congrats on the new kids. now I bet you know how hard it is to go to a show and come home with nothing. I do remember you saying that you would not buy anything.

haha yeah i really only intended on buying eggs....there werent any so i had to improvise