Colorado

[Rivmage]

The swap in wheat ridge. Black sex linked pullets are eight from the kids in the red truck.

 

[Rivmage]

Chicken person left

 

[Rivmage]

Chicken person left

 

[gardendufus]

YAY!!!!!!

For those of you interested, Elizabeth Country Store has finally posted their schedule of what chicks they will be getting in and when.

http://www.elizabethcountrycorner.com//index.cfm?Page=docs/Chicks and More!

 

[coloradogal]

Hi All,
I have my incubator up and running. The temp is a constant 100 degrees and my humidity is at 58%.
As a first timer, is this correct? I've read that I should get another thermometer to double check the temperature.
Any recommendations? Thanks!

I do a dry incubation. I keep it at around 40% and I don't freak unless it gets under 20%. We live in a dry climate so want eggs that can hatch with that particular trait. During lockdown, I raise it to around 60 - 65%. Once again, I don't freak too much.

I've had good hatches after the first candling where I throw away clearly unsuitable eggs. I only had two that didn't make it this last hatch. I gather my prettiest eggs and place them. I candle only around day 14 and discard those that are clear or with the red dot. I mark an X on those that I'm not sure about and the rest, go into lockdown. I do not candle at lockdown but check the air cell. I then fill my incubator with water and just monitor humidity and temperature.

If I were to get shipped eggs, I'd do an incubation based upon where they come from.

On this last hatch, I do believe that the loss of temperature for those few hours did affect the hatch. So far, all the babies look healthy but from pip to hatch seemed to take a lot longer. Usually I always have a couple that take hours but this time, it seemed they all took hours. My last chick, clearly the sibling of the other yellowish chick, took almost 12 hours. I went to bed last night after I transferred the others to the brooder and could hear a chirp inside. I checked last night around 9 and it finally pipped. I finally hatched around 8. It's very tired and sleeping alone in the incubator until it gets its energy back. No yolk sak present on it and no stuck shell.

 

[coloradogal]

Holy MiteDom

So I have the little frizzle in the house and after giving him a bath earlier, I noticed a mite. I usually treat my chickens twice a year as a preventative for such nasty little things. I know we can't prevent them as they come from the wild population but I can control them. So I grabbed the ivermectin after the bath and dabbed him. Never, ever do that inside the house. OMGosh! Those suckers started coming off him so fast and being closest to him...

I've killed 6 in the last half hour and swear, I swear, I feel them climbing all over me. I am so grossed out right now. I'm getting ready to shower and change clothes as I cant get the creepy crawlies away.

I'm tempted to treat the whole flock tonight as they get ready for sleep but try not to unless I have to drag one in for being sick.

I swear I only seen two little mites on him during his bath and no evidence on his vent or legs. But those suckers must have been hiding someplace.

 

[kmatt87]

Holy MiteDom

So I have the little frizzle in the house and after giving him a bath earlier, I noticed a mite. I usually treat my chickens twice a year as a preventative for such nasty little things. I know we can't prevent them as they come from the wild population but I can control them. So I grabbed the ivermectin after the bath and dabbed him. Never, ever do that inside the house. OMGosh! Those suckers started coming off him so fast and being closest to him...

I've killed 6 in the last half hour and swear, I swear, I feel them climbing all over me. I am so grossed out right now. I'm getting ready to shower and change clothes as I cant get the creepy crawlies away.

I'm tempted to treat the whole flock tonight as they get ready for sleep but try not to unless I have to drag one in for being sick.

I swear I only seen two little mites on him during his bath and no evidence on his vent or legs. But those suckers must have been hiding someplace.

ick!! i feel all itchy just thinking about it!

 

[coloradogal]

ick!! i feel all itchy just thinking about it!

Welcome!

After a nice warm shower, I feel great. He was just so torn up when I bought him in that I could do is give him a quick bath to get the blood off and then slather iodine ointment on him and let him heal. I had to feed him for two days as one of his eyes was bloody shut and the other, was just red. He must have felt like a king with the fresh cream drizzled onto his beak a few times a day. He's been in here, I believe, since Monday or was it Sunday. Don't remember.

I tried putting him back out this morning again and he's just getting picked on. So I brought him in, was giving him a bath and then I noticed those nasty little things. It's usually the first thing I do with a sick chicken but he was just beat up so didn't on him. Until I moved here, I had to deal with fleas so mentally, I just consider these chicken fleas. I grew up before the days of Frontline. =) Gosh, I use to hate bathdays and the smell of flea shampoo....ohhh, and bombing the house.

 

[dennarahl]

Okay here goes. This is a picture of the corner of one of the floor halves showing some warp resulting in separation of rim and support joists - this is where I think a few well placed screws might solve the problem, this separation continues on other support joists where they meet the rim joist. Next is a pic of both floor sections So there are 2 12x8 sections, each with 2' on center support joists on the 12' span, spacers at 48", if that makes sense, hard to explain I guess. This is the gravel pad

Listen to Adam over me, i'm an amateur who makes things work, not necessarily do them right. The space in the close up picture may be able to be closed with a couple of screws. Even if you can't, it doesn't look that bad. From the far out picture everything looks fine, I can't tell it's warped. If you remember, we built our new coop from a shed kit. A few pieces of that wood was so awful we had to replace it, but most of it we made work. Square was more of a problem than level.

 

[coloradogal]

Listen to Adam over me, i'm an amateur who makes things work, not necessarily do them right. The space in the close up picture may be able to be closed with a couple of screws. Even if you can't, it doesn't look that bad. From the far out picture everything looks fine, I can't tell it's warped. If you remember, we built our new coop from a shed kit. A few pieces of that wood was so awful we had to replace it, but most of it we made work. Square was more of a problem than level.

and I'm absolutely clueless with any of this or i'd give you my opinion.