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[coloradogal]

My chicks are about 2 weeks. 1 is a little older. They are in my mud room/ laundry room. It's pretty warm in there anyway. Do you ever turn the heat lamps off for a bit during the day or keep them on 24/7

Turn it off and see. If they get too cold, they will start chirping and piling close to one another. I use the brinsea brooder and take it away when they no longer seem to go under it. Usually that is by the time they are 3 to 4 weeks old. An unhappy chick will let you know. They will chirp constantly until you fix what is bothering them.

 

[Adam7]

So I came home for lunch. I went to dip the noisy chicks beak in the water again, but this time as I got her near the water she pecked at it. Then she pecked again! So I set her down and she started going to town on the water!! Then the little black Marans came to see what was so cool and started drinking too! The big fatty decided she would drink the water off the chin of the Marans so I showed her like the first one and now she is drinking too

To top it all off... I hear no more annoyingly loud chirping!

 

[Dnetschke]

So I came home for lunch. I went to dip the noisy chicks beak in the water again, but this time as I got her near the water she pecked at it. Then she pecked again! So I set her down and she started going to town on the water!! Then the little black Marans came to see what was so cool and started drinking too! The big fatty decided she would drink the water off the chin of the Marans so I showed her like the first one and now she is drinking too

To top it all off... I hear no more annoyingly loud chirping!

Good for you. You may have a good nights sleep ahead of you....

 

[wsmith]

So I came home for lunch. I went to dip the noisy chicks beak in the water again, but this time as I got her near the water she pecked at it. Then she pecked again! So I set her down and she started going to town on the water!! Then the little black Marans came to see what was so cool and started drinking too! The big fatty decided she would drink the water off the chin of the Marans so I showed her like the first one and now she is drinking too

To top it all off... I hear no more annoyingly loud chirping!

Very nice!

 

[Dnetschke]

Quick question: I had a chick hatch overnight. Around the yolk sak, there was blood. It wasn't tons but a little. I have never seen that before. The chick seems to be resting and I can see the yolk sak and it looks normal now. The blood was still wettish looking when I woke up so assumed it had just hatched.

I've done some byc investigations and have heard that the chick may have missed a step in the hatching process. I'm leaving the chick alone. Anyone ever had this happen? I've read that for some chicks, they are fine and they just finished absorbing after hatch, instead of before. Then I've read that the chick will be failure to thrive. I've never seen it.

The other thing that I was surprised at is the number of posts I've read where people assist the hatch who see blood. I've only had to do this a couple of times when it was apparent something was wrong. So does the crappy prognosis of failure to thrive have more to do with assisted hatched and not natural ones?

I guess we'll find out.

How goes the hatching?!?!?!?

 

[coloradogal]

so far, so good. the one with the unabsorbed yolk is with the rest of them. There are two that are still pipping.

I'm not a fan of hatching them in the egg cartons. I'll never do it again. Perhaps if my incubator was bigger, I'd like it more.

 

[kmatt87]

yay! i brought my little roo back to the feed store and turns out he was supposed to be a roo. so he has a good home to go too since they gave me part of someone else's order and i get 2 Maran chicks to replace him since it was their mix up.

 

[Dnetschke]

yay! i brought my little roo back to the feed store and turns out he was supposed to be a roo. so he has a good home to go too since they gave me part of someone else's order and i get 2 Maran chicks to replace him since it was their mix up.

Who's your Feed store? No good deed or deal should go unpublished...

 

[krcchickens]

So I put a long mirror in my brooder for the chicks today, lol so much fun to watch them play with themselves in it. It's hilarious!! I also put a block of wood in there for them to perch on, hope that's ok at this point

 

[kmatt87]

i got these chicks at northern colorado feeders supply in ft collins.

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