FLORIDA!!!!!ALWAYS SUNNY SIDE UP!!!

[dolfi]

Hehe yup! It has night vision, I can pan it everywhere, and it displays the temperature. Oh and I can talk to them which I do ALL the time! Under the EcoGlow Brooder....night vision! In the day time, the screen is SO clear, this was taken with my phone so you can't really tell! Here are a couple from last night, first time watching them sleep on a perch! And they are done! HA! Long day.... My cat sits and watches them on it too. I find him like this all the time. He'd never hurt them, he wants to hang out with them! Look at the paw, ha ha ha! I think a baby monitor is a wonderful idea. I've learned so much about their personalities this way, their sleep patterns, the funny things they do at night....I've watched them fall asleep, have chick dreams, wake up and get all excited....and I've trained them to my voice. A must have in my opinion. So glad I did it!!!! I will be installing it in the coop outside when they are older, for sure....! Edit: Whoops, forgot to say congrats on the new chicks....even if you don't have them yet. Are they your first ones?

that is something I should invest on. I checked my babies around 3 am and I guess some where between 4 am to 8am was the wind and rain that killed them.

 

[gatorshark75]

that is something I should invest on. I checked my babies around 3 am and I guess some where between 4 am to 8am was the wind and rain that killed them.

sorry to hear about the babies that saddens me

 

[dolfi]

Thank you guys. I am so frustrated. No matter how much I try my chicks are dieing on me. Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

 

[peachncrm37]

Thank you guys. I am so frustrated. No matter how much I try my chicks are dieing on me. Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

How old are they? Are they outside? Are they inside? What are you feeding them? See if we can help!

 

[kwol]

I am so sad this morning. No matter how nicely and warm I put my two months old chicks last night, the wind knocked out the panels and they got wet. 20 plus died.

. So disappointed.

oh, how heart breaking! I am so sorry for your loss.

 

[kwol]

I'm a 1st timer chicken keeper from Tampa and was needing to know where can I buy some chicks/pullents. plz help... also Im looking to join or start a group of chicken keepers in Tampa, mainly in the east Tampa area...33603

from NE Florida

 

[Gingersnap722]

I know right?! How they balance, so neat! But last night their little heads were drooping so low, all of a sudden I hear a THUD on the monitor. Audrey the BA must have fallen down....and since it was dark she screamed and yelled because she couldn't get back up to Ellie the EE. I had to run in and lift her back up, LOL!

Lol, that is SO funny!!!! I can't use a baby monitor because my barn is too far from the house.

Gator, too funny!

 

[dolfi]

How old are they? Are they outside? Are they inside? What are you feeding them? See if we can help!

They range from 3 months to 1 week.

 

[dolfi]

I feed them starter feed for chicks. And every other day since they started dieing I add to the water prebiotic.

 

[SullyD]

Hi All, I'm in Sarasota, but I haven't posted in quite some time. Although I do like to catch up with all that is going on with this thread.
Food for thought. I recently attended a "Chickens 101" class offered by the FSU extension program. I am new to chickens as well, and I thought it might provide some information that I hadn't learned in my extensive 11 months of raising chickens from egg to laying.

I have learned so much from this website and the posters, that I knew most of what was being taught! Thank you to all the knowledgeable posters! One thing that I did learn, and I spoke with the speaker after the class as well, was about predation. I am in a community of 5+ acre lots and we have lots of wildlife here. Panthers, bobcats, coyote, fox, raccoons, possums, eagles, owls, hawks, snakes and gators! And I am sure I missed a critter or two in my list. Aside from having a secure coop, which is our obligation to the chickens, to keep them safe, he said most predators are territorial. If you remove one, another will come and take its place and claim that territory as their own. There are commercial products (Night eyes for one) that simulate the eyes of a predator and should send the current one packing. A simpler and cheaper technique he offered was to mount a rat trap about a foot off the ground from the area you want the predator to keep away from, set it with peanut butter and wait. It will not trap a larger predator, but should give them a good "bite" to the nose and send them packing. He says he has no issues with predators around his chickens using this method. I have not used this myself, I built fort knox for my chickens (because I didn't know you should have the sides open in Florida, I am from New England), and so far, last summer didn't kill them and neither have any predators. Keeping my fingers crossed the trend will continue. I am way too soft to kill something, even if it was eating my chickens. I would try to see where the breach was and reinforce it. I can't even process my extra roosters.

But that is just me. Please post if you have tried this method before, or would like to try it and post your results. Good luck!