Cochin Thread!!!

Quote: not a heat lamp, specifically, but a 75 watt heat emitter... ceramic encased heating element. produces no light, just heat... but it and the light were spaced off the wall using the clamps. the clamps were melted almost entirely, and only half the heat's shade was...
 
not a heat lamp, specifically, but a 75 watt heat emitter... ceramic encased heating element. produces no light, just heat... but it and the light were spaced off the wall using the clamps. the clamps were melted almost entirely, and only half the heat's shade was...
It's not fun when things go wrong like that. Good thing you caught it in time.
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Quote: just went down to check it out, the heat emitter is still intact... contemplating plugging it in to see if it still works. they're not cheap.

also checked on the babies... first night ever without extra heat, they're all huddled in the bottom of the house quiet as can be. 8) some of the older babies are perching above, but most are snuggling together.

should mention... the older free ranging babies hatched between oct 5 and 18, the younger group between oct 24 and november 3... so 10 in the older group, and about 20 in the younger group.
 
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ok, this has been an interesting afternoon...

figured i'd go outside and get some pics while the weather was decent, but noticed one of the younger babies was OUTSIDE his pen, trying to get back in... then i noticed what looked like whispy smoke. so i walked over and found this...



no babies lost or damaged, just the corner of the house they were living in... so they've been relocated in with some older chicks (my free ranging ones). it was still smoldering when i took the pic, but had the water barrel already on the tractor and still half full, so drove it over and proceeded to saturate everything even remotely hot. (yes i made sure the breaker was off first).

looks like it started with a short on the extension cord where it was laying on the ground. about 6" was burned clean of any insulation, and melted a plastic bowl that was sitting nearby before climbing the side of the pen.
You are so lucky no babies got hurt.
One of my coops has a scorch spot on the floor(slatted wood). A heat lamp fell and broke two Winters ago. Luckily I was out there and smelled the smoke. I sure was overprotective when I first had my birds. Now I don't put out heat for the adult birds. Oklahoma doesn't have that much cold. Next week the nights are supposed to get down to as low as 18* though. That has me feeling anxious. They are all in pens with the North and West sides covered with visquine now. Some don't usually roost inside their coops that are in the pens and i will sometimes put them in their coops after dark. My neighbor just has coops with the openings facing South. He has the healthiest birds I know and laughs at the way I spoil mine.
 
The small coops I have set up in the outside pens hold 5 - 10 birds and the openings face south and west. They do not have lights or heat....and the birds have done great. I know what you mean Mary Jo about the freezing temperatures to come this week...will add leaves to the floor of those little coops for extra insulation and change out the frozen blocks from the water tubs. As we get closer to the "blizzard" forecast, I can always move the breeders back into the barn in portable pens.

ki4got Wow!..good thing you were home...things could have really been worse.
 
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The small coops I have set up in the outside pens hold 5 - 10 birds and the openings face south and west. They do not have lights or heat....and the birds have done great. I know what you mean Mary Jo about the freezing temperatures to come this week...will add leaves to the floor of those little coops for extra insulation and change out the frozen blocks from the water tubs. As we get closer to the "blizzard" forecast, I can always move the breeders back into the barn in portable pens.

ki4got Wow!..good thing you were home...things could have really been worse.
I put in deep straw and all of the coops have doors I can close.
 
I set up breeding pens this week with all the nice weather we had.
A Black Cockerel will cover two white hens(these are from Bo Garrett) cockerell hatched from eggs and the hens were purchased.


This is a younger picture of the same cockerel born in April



One of the hens and oth of them





and a Dark blue laced cockerel (brother to the black one) will cover two hens from JHeinz and one from CJarvis.



The young hens from jheinz


Two pictures of Delilah from this past summer when she brooded some chicks.
 
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