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

[ChickenCanoe]

Raccoons like tender baby chicks.

 

[campingshaws]

She needs to replace the wet bedding with dry, use a hair dryer to dry and warm the chicks.
She doesn't need a thermometer. Just make sure the heat lamp provides a hot spot with lots of room to escape it.
What kind of container or space is the brooder?

I walked her through it like you did me with my first chicks, but she didn't listen. They were obviously not warm enough.
Here it is before she added mhp the day she got them from me. She said she added it the next day. I will ask if she changed the bedding. I can't imagine not.

Looks like mixed ages? They could have been smothered trying to stay warm.

 

[daxigait]

They were over three weeks old. This is a tragedy that need not have happened. 12 of 16 already gone. She has only had them eight days.

 

[kajira]

She didn't even keep them warm and dry much less safe.

We had a thunder storm last night, and I went out side and got my broody, her 3 babies while fighting the rain and took them inside into a dog crate to keep them warm just in case. I guess i'm weird.

 

[campingshaws]

They were over three weeks old. This is a tragedy that need not have happened. 12 of 16 already gone.

Sorry Dax.

 

[daxigait]

We had a thunder storm last night, and I went out side and got my broody, her 3 babies while fighting the rain and took them inside into a dog crate to keep them warm just in case. I guess i'm weird. 

not really I was outside in the thunder and lightning last night collecting the little checks that did not climb up into the coop. Which of course required crawling around under the raised poop in the poop so fun. At least they were dry because over half my run is covered.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

They were over three weeks old. This is a tragedy that need not have happened. 12 of 16 already gone.

If tragedy strikes, I never sell chickens to the same person again - whether that be predators or illness.
I spend too much time and effort to create top of the line birds.
I get these reports often. Sell some outstanding birds to someone and a predator takes them all. I'm always sorry I sold them.

 

[kajira]

If tragedy strikes, I never sell chickens to the same person again - whether that be predators or illness.
I spend too much time and effort to create top of the line birds.
I get these reports often. Sell some outstanding birds to someone and a predator takes them all. I'm always sorry I sold them.

i agree, I definitely wouldn't sell them again

 

[daxigait]

If tragedy strikes, I never sell chickens to the same person again - whether that be predators or illness.
I spend too much time and effort to create top of the line birds.
I get these reports often. Sell some outstanding birds to someone and a predator takes them all. I'm always sorry I sold them.

frostbite comb killer. Poor Pen, but he is doing well otherwise. That is just a strictly summer coop now.

 

[daxigait]

Definitely not. I spent a half an hour talking about conditions for the chicks including space in temperature medicated feed especially because she was going to new ground what to put down underneath their feet at this age exceter and she did some of them, but she is obviously woefully unprepared to handle chicks or chickens.