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

[BantyChooks]

They are enormous, too big to call chicks, and it's embarrassing that they are still inside. I'm desperate to give them housing, hoping for tomorrow. Here;s hoping they aren't somehow psychologically scarred by their boring brooder heavy adolescence...

Some of mine were inside for 4 months, they are fine.

 

[Pensmaster]

They are enormous, too big to call chicks, and it's embarrassing that they are still inside. I'm desperate to give them housing, hoping for tomorrow. Here;s hoping they aren't somehow psychologically scarred by their boring brooder heavy adolescence...

The Dark Cornish chicks are starting to catch up with my birds now. Still a sizable difference though.

So the S&G were good after the mail problem?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Yeah, but they're really really big, and it's hard to keep their brooders clean. You'd be amazed how much bedding I go through...

Quote: The S&G that survived look good. The boys are starting to lie around, so I'm hoping that;s just because they are in the brooder (and not because they're acting like broilers). The S&G girls are a dream - super sweet and friendly, big, and very pretty buffs. The Aloha boys are a giant PITA - they have started biting me.

 

[BantyChooks]

Yeah, but they're really really big, and it's hard to keep their brooders clean. You'd be amazed how much bedding I go through... 

The S&G that survived look good. The boys are starting to lie around, so I'm hoping that;s just because they are in the brooder (and not because they're acting like broilers). The S&G girls are a dream - super sweet and friendly, big, and very pretty buffs. The Aloha boys are a giant PITA - they have started biting me. 

Believe moi, there ain't much I'd be surprised at now.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote:
Yeah, but seriously, 40 chickens in a room of four giant brooders. Ugh. They knock over their waterers nearly daily - wet bedding - another PITA.

In other news, I have only just realized how many big blisters I have on my feet.

 

[Pensmaster]

Yeah, but they're really really big, and it's hard to keep their brooders clean. You'd be amazed how much bedding I go through... 

The S&G that survived look good. The boys are starting to lie around, so I'm hoping that;s just because they are in the brooder (and not because they're acting like broilers). The S&G girls are a dream - super sweet and friendly, big, and very pretty buffs. The Aloha boys are a giant PITA - they have started biting me. 

One of my rooster chicks was doing that as well a while back. Another is quite active in chest bumping with all the other roosters. I hope he's not a problem bird as he's the biggest and I'm hoping he will eventually replace my current rooster.

I hope they don't act as broilers as well. Too much work involved with them for them to start acting like that.

I didn't end up keeping any of the NN I first got their size wasn't good enough. I now have some cross breed NN with green egg layers so hopefully I'll get NN hens laying green eggs.

 

[BantyChooks]

Yeah, but seriously, 40 chickens in a room of four giant brooders. Ugh. They knock over their waterers nearly daily - wet bedding - another PITA. 

In other news, I have only just realized how many big blisters I have on my feet. 

 

[Pensmaster]

Yeah, but they're really really big, and it's hard to keep their brooders clean. You'd be amazed how much bedding I go through... 

I have mine on 1/2 inch hardware cloth after the first couple weeks in smaller brooder. Droppings go to cardboard. They'll stay on this for a month then move onto the greenhouse for growing out.

I have a broody setting eggs again.

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

Zipping is closing the "fly"
Unzipping is opening it

So if I understand correctly the term should be "unzipping "

 

[kajira]

Yeah, but seriously, 40 chickens in a room of four giant brooders. Ugh. They knock over their waterers nearly daily - wet bedding - another PITA.

In other news, I have only just realized how many big blisters I have on my feet.

I had a dream about you. You were sending me pictures of NN chickens, defeathered, cooked, and decorated on a plate, and telling me how hungry you were............... ^.^