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

[mlm Mike]

I think the dogs are telling me it's time for bed too.





Good night everyone!

 

[BullChick]

Goodnight, Mike!

 

[BullChick]

Goodnight,

Last night you have to take care of me!

 

[Pensmaster]

I think the dogs are telling me it's time for bed too. Good night everyone!

Night Mike

 

[Pensmaster]

Goodnight,

Last night you have to take care of me!

& have a good one.

 

[daxigait]

@BantyChooks I would help with your coop if you lived closer.
@campingshawsWay to be patient. Go duckies.
@mlm Mike@kajira. Since you need to post, what do you think I should do?
I am going to condense to two coops for the winter. I have a fancy large coop that is essentially an 8 1/2 by 10' shed, that is very secure and no chance of drafts. I have a second red combo coop that is more of a traditional raised coop. It is also possibly a bit drafty though I can plastic up the plywood windows.
Now I have two choices. I can put my expensive breeder HRIR pullets and mine into the red combo coop and put those pullets and my selected pullets and cockerel for next year in it pulling the couple of green egg layers that I want with my Ameraucana and EE roos into the main coop now. This is the less safe/or at least warm coop, but would mean only one flock integration. The other option is to. Put the reds in the main coop and the Ameraucana cockerel and two hens he is with into the smaller coop. Then change everything in the spring for breeding.
What do you think?
@ChickenCanoe

 

[Phage]

Does that make me a bad chicken owner, that I don't even know what they are and don't care what they are? they have a home anyways? LOL

NO!
They are happy, and certainly THEY don't care what they "are" either.

 

[campingshaws]

It's out!!!! I ended up helping it just a bit. It was ready.

Total of 4 chicks from 7 eggs still alive when I put them in the bator. They survived going cold, getting crushed, jumbled into a feed sack and riding three miles to my house. It's been 84 hours since I set them, and all were internally pipped at first candle.

 

[BantyChooks]

WOOHOO!!!

 

[Pensmaster]

@BantyChooks I would help with your coop if you lived closer.
@campingshawsWay to be patient. Go duckies.
@mlm Mike@kajira. Since you need to post, what do you think I should do?
I am going to condense to two coops for the winter. I have a fancy large coop that is essentially an 8 1/2 by 10' shed, that is very secure and no chance of drafts. I have a second red combo coop that is more of a traditional raised coop. It is also possibly a bit drafty though I can plastic up the plywood windows.
Now I have two choices. I can put my expensive breeder HRIR pullets and mine into the red combo coop and put those pullets and my selected pullets and cockerel for next year in it pulling the couple of green egg layers that I want with my Ameraucana and EE roos into the main coop now. This is the less safe/or at least warm coop, but would mean only one flock integration. The other option is to. Put the reds in the main coop and the Ameraucana cockerel and two hens he is with into the smaller coop. Then change everything in the spring for breeding.
What do you think?
@ChickenCanoe

Hi Dax. How cold does Missouri get?

All my coops have drafts in fact are down right open. We get down to 28* sometimes, All seem to do ok.