Chicks in the Winter

[JJMR794]

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YA CANT GO WRONG WITH THAT

 

[Robo]

I'm gonna use an old electric heater to make a hommade incubator. I found a robin egg and set it in a cooler with plywood between the egg and the heater. It started to form, but it got way too hot one day.

 

[joe125]

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That's pretty cold for one week old chicks. Most folks start them at 90 or 95 degrees in the brooder. A few folks go a bit warmer than that - closer to the 100 degrees that they were incubated at. Figure on reducing the temperature five degrees each week. One week old chicks would thus be at 85-90 degrees, depending on your starting temp in the brooder.

You also want to watch how they act. If they are cheeping loudly and huddling together, they are COLD.

This is why I said DEBATABLE as far as exact temps go. After 1 week, I can't tell you the exact temp. because I brood down by observation, not exact temp.

I agree that 70-80deg is pretty cold for a week old coturnix, but the variables just keep coming here. Now we have to account for oil heater, as well as incubating a robin egg. There isn't a robin egg within 2000 miles of me right now! The variables keep getting pelted at me, and I don't know how to respond. I don't know about robins.

I AM TOTALLY CONFUSED RIGHT NOW!

 

[kingmt]

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What does that have to do with bugs ah courtin?

 

[chickhopeful12]

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...Just say NO to socks!

 

[JJMR794]

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What does that have to do with bugs ah courtin?

LOL= STOP KING IT WILL ALREADY TAKE US A WEEK TO GET HIM BACK ON TRACK, DONT MAKE IT WORSE!

( TO FOLKS OTHER THAN JOE AND KING-- I'M KIDDING!)


I TOO, LIKE JOE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE TEMPERATURE NUMBERS ARE IN ANY OF MY BROODERS..... I DONT USE THERMOMETERS IN BROODERS. WHY WASTE THE BATTERIES ALL MY BROODERS HAVE LIL FUZZY GUAGES IN THERE THAT TELL ME IF IT'S TOO COLD, TOO HOT, OR JUST RIGHT (SAVE THE THERMOMETER FOR YOUR NEXT BATOR AND WATCH YOUR CHICKS- THEY WILL TELL YOU IF THE TEMP IS OK. I MEAN YOU'RE ALREADY FEEDING AND CARING FOR THEM--- THEY MIGHT AS WELL EARN THEIR KEEP!

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[Robo]

I used to use a thermometer, but if they aren't huddling or ramming into the wall they should be fine.

 

[joe125]

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What does that have to do with bugs ah courtin?

LOL= STOP KING IT WILL ALREADY TAKE US A WEEK TO GET HIM BACK ON TRACK, DONT MAKE IT WORSE!

( TO FOLKS OTHER THAN JOE AND KING-- I'M KIDDING!)


I TOO, LIKE JOE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE TEMPERATURE NUMBERS ARE IN ANY OF MY BROODERS..... I DONT USE THERMOMETERS IN BROODERS. WHY WASTE THE BATTERIES ALL MY BROODERS HAVE LIL FUZZY GUAGES IN THERE THAT TELL ME IF IT'S TOO COLD, TOO HOT, OR JUST RIGHT (SAVE THE THERMOMETER FOR YOUR NEXT BATOR AND WATCH YOUR CHICKS- THEY WILL TELL YOU IF THE TEMP IS OK. I MEAN YOU'RE ALREADY FEEDING AND CARING FOR THEM--- THEY MIGHT AS WELL EARN THEIR KEEP!

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Yeah...I really need to build some quail pens, so a week off sounds nice!

I also have no idea what the temp is in my brooder right now. All chicks are alive and kicking, and as long as I don't set a quart water bottle on top of them....they will be alive tomorrow. That's what really keeps me going.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I have raised Button chicks in the winter, I would suggest raising them inside the house.