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[WVduckchick]

What a cutie! Congrats! and sorry about the one that didn't make it.

 

[MrsBrooke]

I keep him in the incubator. mom wont let me make a brooder. I would make one out of one of my wire cages a socket adapter and an exstention cord. Don't have anything else to put him in that is worm.

Fair enough. Are you able to adjust the temp? And what kind of incubator? Your chick will double in size in a week or so and will need more room soon, so is there a plan in place for that?

I assume you are providing chick feed and water at all times? Do you know if the feed is medicated or not?

I'm happy one of your babies is thriving. Sorry for your loss of the one that didn't.

Welcome to the world of chicken hatching! You did it!

MrsB

 

[peepsthebrassy]

Fair enough. Are you able to adjust the temp? And what kind of incubator? Your chick will double in size in a week or so and will need more room soon, so is there a plan in place for that?

I assume you are providing chick feed and water at all times? Do you know if the feed is medicated or not?

I'm happy one of your babies is thriving. Sorry for your loss of the one that didn't.

Welcome to the world of chicken hatching! You did it!

MrsB

Yes I can adjust the temperate. My incubator is Styrofoam. I don't know what to do when it gets bigger. It does have food and water at all times. Thank you.

If the incubator say gets to 110 for a night or for 9 hrs will it kill the chick and the chicks in the eggs just curious?

I read that high temp. can kill the chicks in the eggs. how high can it get and not have the chick die? will the chicks in the eggs just have deformity's like Freddy K's long tow. I think it is double jointed.

Will the temp. Effect Freddy K if it goes down to like 70 or 80 digress? Like make her sick or kill her.

i have another batch of eggs in the incubator and three are my favoret hen peeps's and i don't want to loose them if they get too cold or hot and i definitely don't want to lose Freddy if that happens too.

also i have duck eggs in their too. if it happens to them when can i check if they are still developing?

 

[WalnutHill]

I am sorry to say that yes, 70-80 can make a chick sick enough to die, and 110 can kill a chick or an incubating egg. Even 105 can kill or deform a chick, and some deformities are not like a long toe, they can be really horrifying, like the insides on the outside, or badly crippled.

These are little lives in our hands, and if we are going to take on the responsibility of trying to raise them, we need to do our very best to give them what they need to survive. They won't always survive no matter how careful we are, but we need to try.

A newly hatched chick should be at 95F for the first week, 90F for the second week, 85F for the third week, 80F for the fourth week. Once the chick has feathers and not fuzz, you don't need any additional heat.

So you see you can't incubate eggs and brood a chick in the same incubator for more than the first 24 hours or so.

A brooder can be as little as a clamp lamp, a big cardboard box with newspaper and shavings on the floor, and clean food and water. As long as there is a spot that the chick can find the right temperature to get warm, the rest of the box can be cooler.

 

[peepsthebrassy]

I am sorry to say that yes, 70-80 can make a chick sick enough to die, and 110 can kill a chick or an incubating egg. Even 105 can kill or deform a chick, and some deformities are not like a long toe, they can be really horrifying, like the insides on the outside, or badly crippled.

These are little lives in our hands, and if we are going to take on the responsibility of trying to raise them, we need to do our very best to give them what they need to survive. They won't always survive no matter how careful we are, but we need to try.

A newly hatched chick should be at 95F for the first week, 90F for the second week, 85F for the third week, 80F for the fourth week. Once the chick has feathers and not fuzz, you don't need any additional heat.

So you see you can't incubate eggs and brood a chick in the same incubator for more than the first 24 hours or so.

A brooder can be as little as a clamp lamp, a big cardboard box with newspaper and shavings on the floor, and clean food and water. As long as there is a spot that the chick can find the right temperature to get warm, the rest of the box can be cooler.

my mom wont let me make a brooder. she says it will take up too much power.

 

[WalnutHill]

She has a point, it does use electricity, but not that much. If you put the brooder in your room, and your room is 70 degrees, then you only need to raise the heat in the box by 25 degrees. You can use a regular light bulb, probably a 60 watt in a clamp lamp hood.

It takes almost 17 hours for one 60 watt bulb to use 1 KW of electricity. That is probably less than 20 cents worth. So maybe a quarter's worth a day. Maybe you can do some extra chores to earn it.

 

[JJSS89]

I chicken can not live in an incubator. Even a cardboard box with a 60W bulb would work for one.

 

[peepsthebrassy]

i will tell my mom and ask her if i can do that when i get home from school.

 

[MrsBrooke]

my mom wont let me make a brooder. she says it will take up too much power.

Well, she does have a point. A heat light running all day and all night makes our electricity bill jump. I'm waiting for the Feds to kick down our door searching for grow lights.

Anyway.

There are other options that must be explored immediately.

I mean no offense, but we are headed towards another disaster if this continues. You've GOT to get Freddy K out of the incubator. Post haste...

You can set up a brooder with a ceramic or wall-mounted space heater, rather than a heat lamp. That way, the chick(s) can snuggle up to it if they get cold. The risk of fire is GREATLY reduced, and I imagine it won't pull electricity like a brood lamp would.

You can get something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Floureon-200W...id=1426606203&sr=1-15&keywords=ceramic+heater ... or something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing...426606334&sr=1-7&keywords=wall+mounted+heater

I would do your research and shop around to see what will work best for you.

Bottom line (and I say this as nicely as possible):

1) The high temps required to hatch eggs WILL kill your chick. If he is lethargic and sleepy, this is the first stage of overheating.
2) You must get the chick into a brooder with appropriate heat, space, food, and water.
3) This must be done as soon as possible. If it takes you a week to gather all of this and order the supplies, it may be too late for your chick.
4) Wild fluctuations in temperature can also kill the chicks in the eggs - but we've got to take care of Freddy K first.

Getting Freddy K into a place where he can live and thrive is of the UTMOST importance.

I would highly, highly advise hatching NO MORE chicks until you are properly set up to care for them, otherwise, you run the risk of having every single one of them die. Set something up for Freddy K that will house at least him and allllll of the other chicks in your incubator, because they will be here in a few weeks. I would recommend giving them no less than 6" of space each. You will find that they grow quickly and will need to be moved to a larger grow-out pen in a few weeks.

Did you have any idea you were getting into all of this??? Ha!

Is this your first chicken, or did you have chickens already?

MrsB

 

[MrsBrooke]

Haha. I make things so complicated.

Agreed on the cardboard box and the 60w bulb! That's the easiest!

MrsB