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[peepsthebrassy]

ok i am going to ask my mom again if i can make a brooder if not then i will give them to someone that can.

 

[WalnutHill]

And please, if you give away your chicks...don't hatch any more. If your hens go broody you can enjoy letting them hatch them, they have everything they need to do the job. And you can still enjoy playing with the babies.

 

[JJSS89]

There might be somebody on here who is close enough to raise the baby for you until it is a few months old and can live on it's own.

 

[MrsBrooke]

ok i am going to ask my mom again if i can make a brooder if not then i will give them to someone that can.

I feel that is very wise of you to do so.

If you're able to find a "foster" for your chicks, I think every one will be happier in the long run.

MrsB

 

[WVduckchick]

I love this thread. I'm sorry for your troubles Peeps, but at times, on this forum, people have a tendency to tick me off with new people who are a bit lost, like you seem to be. But you have gotten sweet and wise advice from everyone! I hope everything works out for you. You have alot of people rooting for you and the babies. Dont be too discouraged. Just take the advice and see what you can do with it. I think its sweet that you want to have chicks. And if having them now doesn't work out for you, some day you will! Best wishes sweetie.

 

[peepsthebrassy]

thank you that rely means allot to me

 

[peepsthebrassy]

And please, if you give away your chicks...don't hatch any more. If your hens go broody you can enjoy letting them hatch them, they have everything they need to do the job. And you can still enjoy playing with the babies.

just because i did not know what i know now does not mean i well make the same mistakes that i had made, the first time if i do it again. so why cant i hatch any more?

i know this is probably going to set some of you guys off.( or at least you) but come on i'm not stupid. i wont make the same mistakes twice.

 

[WalnutHill]

I understand that you are learning, but I am guessing you are working with the barest of necessities and probably go to school and have to leave your incubator untended much of the day. Unfortunately, the cheaper incubators aren't very good at keeping steady temperatures, and it can be disastrous when they don't. Just read other posts on this forum and you'll see that incubators cool down to the 70s, go up to 175, go up to 108, and other things they shouldn't do. You experienced it yourself, and so did I.

I ended up building a better incubator, but it wasn't all that cheap. I will find out in two weeks if it works better than my cheap foam ones did. Last year quite a few eggs died while I tried to incubate and hatch them, and I learned from it, and I'm sure you are too. But if I had a chick born alive with a horrible defect, I would feel bad about it because I know that it was probably caused by something I did while it was incubating. I've had brooder heat lamps burn out in cold weather and had chicks huddle until some were smotherered. While it's exciting to watch them incubate, hatch, and grow, I have a huge amount of respect for those tiny lives.

You certainly are not upsetting me. And I hope I am not upsetting you. I incubated a bunch, and I mean a BUNCH, of eggs when I was a kid in a cheap plastic 3 egg incubator heated by a nightlight bulb. There was no thermostat, so it had to be put where the temperature was perfect and never changed. But I got some chicks to hatch, and it made me happy. Then I learned that you can't put chicks that get too big for a box in the basement out into the coop with grown hens and roosters. I learned my lessons too, some of them the hard way.

I certainly want you to enjoy the experience of hatching chicks. But please, before you do, be sure that you have a home for them after hatching whether it is in your flock or someone else's, especially the boys, because it's hard to find them homes. If you plan to eat them, that's fine too, just be sure you have plans.

All of us here are hoping to save you some painful learning experiences by sharing ours with you. I am sure you will learn, whether you follow our advice or not, you seem like a sensible and intelligent young person. But we also want your experiences in chick raising to be good experiences. So please take all this advice in the right spirit.

 

[ochochicas]

Quote: You should hatch any more eggs because your mom is not supportive of it. Since you live in her house and she pays the bills, you should respect her wishes and not do it until you are older and can provide proper care for them yourself. Life is full of making sacrifices and waiting for the "right time" to do things. If you have a broody hen AND your mom says it is OK for her to hatch chicks, then that would be the right time to do it. You are going to look back on this experience in a few years and realize how miserable you are making life for that lonely chick in your incubator that has no place suitable to live.

 

[ochochicas]

I love this thread. I'm sorry for your troubles Peeps, but at times, on this forum, people have a tendency to tick me off with new people who are a bit lost, like you seem to be. But you have gotten sweet and wise advice from everyone! I hope everything works out for you. You have alot of people rooting for you and the babies. Dont be too discouraged. Just take the advice and see what you can do with it. I think its sweet that you want to have chicks. And if having them now doesn't work out for you, some day you will! Best wishes sweetie.

I'm sorry you think we are being too harsh with this situation. My issues is that if someone comes here to learn and fix mistakes, why is there all the second guessing and questioning of the advice given? The chick is living in an incubator. Not much more needs to be said. If this were a foal and this was a horse forum, little Peeps would have been thrown to the wolves by now and Animal Control would have been called to the house. Chicken folk are much kinder and more tolerant of the "newbies" and I think Peeps has been treated more than fairly by everyone. Just my two cents. I hope the chick finds a new home ASAP where he will have a buddy and proper care. I also hope Peeps has learned he/she is not ready or prepared to care for chicks and will not hatch more until the mom gives her permission.