EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[kwhites634]

Quote: The chicken will make a incredible mess from the feed in this feeder.
Exactly what I thought, but I wanted to see if anyone else had mentioned it before I posted.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

My new home made ACV batch, almost ready nice"mother " is developing.

when will it turn color?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: oh sweets!! yer good!

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.Either there or on the Ponderosa

yeah that too

Sally here's the brooder built from shipping box but any cardboard box would work. The rope runs inside and under the box. The size of box depends on amount of chicks.



The temp after a few hours inside box is at 90*. It has one inch of dirt on bottom and one inch covering the rope.




Here's the chicks using the box this am. When I went in last night they were standing by the box under the rope on the left hand side. I turned their regular light back on as they did not know where to go. Thankfully they figured it out from there.

so far they seem fine with heat below? this is great news! I so hope it continues to work, I think it would be awesome to make wide roosts for the serama covered with indoor outdoor carpet instead of heat lamps in the winter!! PLEASE KIT about this!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

You know how we all see these HOOP COOPS right? How about a MINI HEATED HOOP COOP to get those chicks outside?


I love this idea, not much to it either, and I like that its not a wooden coop for heat lamps either. I know it could get cold, but I think with that heat lamp in the 55 Gal drum sideways thing at one end it would work awesome!

Outside that is.

They're 2 1/2 weeks old and the dust is horrible. We have no garage and our shed doesn't have electric. So, DH and I put together a mini hoop house today. It's just off our back porch so we can run an extension cord to it. It is roughly 4 x 8 x 3. We used one stock panel cut in half. It only took a couple of hours. It would have gone quicker but we had to figure some details out as we went.

You'll notice the chicken wire is on the inside. That would be because I forgot to put it on before the tarp went on. I put the bottom half of a large dog crate to help hold heat in that area. I think I might take it out tomorrow depending on how they do. It's plenty big for 52 chicks but I don't think they need it and it's just taking up room.

So, for you viewing pleasure, some pictures of the mini hoop house being put together and the chicks in it.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@BantyChooks

Not sure if this is in the ideas for separating eggs, or the one earlier the fat feeders

Move all eggs out of the turners! Separated types with my daughters legos. I hope the heat distributes evenly! Lock Down is happening now

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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I know I seen this around a few times, but if I get quail again I think this would be cool, not sure how functional but it has potential its basically free, and free stuff is always good

Here is a picture of it without the doors installed. These are recycled wire spools (FREE!) from the electric company. We used 5 foot biddy wire, but I think it would work out better if you can find the 6 foot wire. That way, the middle section will be larger. If interested, I will post pictures of the final product.

We've made two of these so far and still have wire left over. I plan to put pigeons and small bantams in the pens.

Spools = Free
Scrap wood = Free
5' Roll of wire = $45.00

 

[BantyChooks]

@BantyChooks


Not sure if this is in the ideas for separating eggs, or the one earlier the fat feeders

I think it's in there, but I'll double check.

 

[BantyChooks]

 

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I know I seen this around a few times, but if I get quail again I think this would be cool, not sure how functional but it has potential its basically free, and free stuff is always good

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i would like to see the doors, feeders, waterers, and a video of one person catching the chicks to move to a larger brooder or cage. The "Hoop Brooder" in the previous post is wonderful !!!

 

[Pensmaster]

oh sweets!! yer good!
yeah that too

so far they seem fine with heat below?  this is great news!  I so hope it continues to work, I think it would be awesome to make wide roosts for the serama covered with indoor outdoor carpet instead of heat lamps in the winter!!  PLEASE KIT about this!!! 

I think so. In the spring I merely put it on the cage wire in the same cage with a cardboard box as a lid no dirt. They just snuggled up to it with their crop on top of it. The new rope may be too warm for that as I'm assuming the old is wearing out. The old rope still read 108 with insulation around it and thermometer inside that insulation.

There is 15 feet of light under that box. And 3 feet of rope inside. For larger amounts of chicks merely run the rope with more space.

For gardening seed starter I zig zagged the rope through a small bed of dirt, which was insulated with styrofoam on bottom, and put the seed starter containers on that. Then a lid over that to hold temps on seeds.

It's water proof and doesn't get hot enough to start a fire which is always a problem with lamps.

Best thing it's only $10