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

[BullChick]

Can the roof be repaired or replaced? What's the roof made of?

Can you do a temporary fix with plastic sheeting?

I considered plastic sheeting. It's not worth a temporary fix now. I hope to actually screw on a whole new roof.
This roof is apparently made of cardboard. It's sagging down into the coop and run. So sad. These coops aren't the worst things if you don't pay full price (Walmart is the most expensive!), and you are prepared to fix it soon. Perhaps if one were to immediately add a new roof with an overhang over the nestboxes. They are handy things to have for quarantine, a broody or just getting chicks outside in the spring.

 

[BullChick]

Oh my goodness! It is twenty-seven degrees! And it was lower through the night. It was supposed to be 34!
I am so very glad I moved those birds!
Unfortunately, the ducks haven't used their housing in a while. I hope with as windy as it was, they had the sense to go inside.
Today will be busy. I have to make room for the ducks to winter in the coop, build a run, and hope the lone free ranging rooster will get his butt inside!
Then there is inside work. More moving stuff upstairs, and I have to fix the kitchen sink. I hope I remember how to do it!

 

[kwhites634]

I considered plastic sheeting. It's not worth a temporary fix now. I hope to actually screw on a whole new roof.
This roof is apparently made of cardboard. It's sagging down into the coop and run. So sad. These coops aren't the worst things if you don't pay full price (Walmart is the most expensive!), and you are prepared to fix it soon. Perhaps if one were to immediately add a new roof with an overhang over the nestboxes. They are handy things to have for quarantine, a broody or just getting chicks outside in the spring.

I bought one of the cheapies, too. Didn't expect it to last, so I copied it right away beefed it up a bit in the process) so I could switch over to it when I needed to. That was 3 years ago! Somehow, they're both in good shape yet.

Is your coop's roof pitched, or just slanted?
Is it light enough that you could lift it off and set a new one in it's place in a few minutes?

Can you get a picture of it? I have an idea that might work; hard to know w/o seeing it.

 

[kwhites634]

Oh my goodness! It is twenty-seven degrees! And it was lower through the night. It was supposed to be 34!
I am so very glad I moved those birds!
Unfortunately, the ducks haven't used their housing in a while. I hope with as windy as it was, they had the sense to go inside.
Today will be busy. I have to make room for the ducks to winter in the coop, build a run, and hope the lone free ranging rooster will get his butt inside!
Then there is inside work. More moving stuff upstairs, and I have to fix the kitchen sink. I hope I remember how to do it!

You have a "busy little beaver" day in front of you, it seems. Good luck with it.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Mornin Fowl peoples

 

[BullChick]

I bought one of the cheapies, too. Didn't expect it to last, so I copied it right away beefed it up a bit in the process) so I could switch over to it when I needed to. That was 3 years ago! Somehow, they're both in good shape yet.

Is your coop's roof pitched, or just slanted?
Is it light enough that you could lift it off and set a new one in it's place in a few minutes?

Can you get a picture of it? I have an idea that might work; hard to know w/o seeing it.

Slanted. It's very light weight. The wind has blown it around before. I move it all over the place.

You have a "busy little beaver" day in front of you, it seems. Good luck with it.

Yup! Thanks.

Mornin Fowl peoples

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hi MC whats new?

 

[arwenreborn]

Congratulations on the successful last hatch - I expect you will have the same luck with this one., I have had several to pip at the wrong end, but they hatched fine. But, you might want to make sure they don't get stuck. I have NEVER gotten the hatch line correct, so you are better at that than I am!!

Good luck!!!!

Thanks! I can see they are all still breathing, the one that pipped first looks to have broken through the membrane properly now which is good...just hoping they make some progress, they are still busily chirping away happily so I guess that's a good sign! I turn into anxious mother around hatch time I have discovered, my three girls are also little "mother hens" and desperate to see each egg hatch!

 

[BullChick]

New York, New Jersey, New Mexico, New Hampshire, New England...

 

[BullChick]

What's new with you?