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[admhotel]

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I had a great fertility rate with mine just didnt get many to hatch not the sellers fault at all it was mine and my newbiness with new bator...I got 6 out of 18 to hatch but 14 went into lockdown:-(

I know what you mean with getting a new bator. First hatch we tried with the Hova bator we got before christmas, set 41 only 3 hatched, and 1 of those didn't make it. We had alot better hatch this time around. Set 42, 33 in lockdown, 25 hatched. Alot of the ones that didn't make it to lockdown were ours, we don't get out to check for eggs enough in this cold weather.

 

[Sportsterjeep]

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I had a great fertility rate with mine just didnt get many to hatch not the sellers fault at all it was mine and my newbiness with new bator...I got 6 out of 18 to hatch but 14 went into lockdown:-(

I know what you mean with getting a new bator. First hatch we tried with the Hova bator we got before christmas, set 41 only 3 hatched, and 1 of those didn't make it. We had alot better hatch this time around. Set 42, 33 in lockdown, 25 hatched. Alot of the ones that didn't make it to lockdown were ours, we don't get out to check for eggs enough in this cold weather.

Cold weather is hard on the eggs. We were checking 3 to 4 times a day and still had frozen eggs.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

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Sorry about your roo. We've had some die before where we saw a little off behavior the day before and then they're gone the next time you look in. Even had one we found dead in the morning and had seen no signs that something was wrong.
My morning started out after working all day and into the night with my mother walking into the house saying to the chicks "you stinky little chickens" and then to me with a look and inflection "Your chickens Stink!" We had a hatch last week and I have a couple totes with my older young stock in the house. I haven't been home much in 3 days because of dropping the girls to be babysat and work. My dear DH cleaned them before I got home last night. My mom doesn't agree with our having so many chickens and lets me know it when she can.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

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THANK YOU TAB

You're welcome

Can't wait for lovinstock so I can meet some new friends and have a lot of fun!

 

[Brindlebtch]

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I'm so sorry! How sad.

 

[Brindlebtch]

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THANK YOU TAB

DITTO

 

[Brindlebtch]

Tab's chicken obsession :

My morning started out after working all day and into the night with my mother walking into the house saying to the chicks "you stinky little chickens" and then to me with a look and inflection "Your chickens Stink!" We had a hatch last week and I have a couple totes with my older young stock in the house. I haven't been home much in 3 days because of dropping the girls to be babysat and work. My dear DH cleaned them before I got home last night. My mom doesn't agree with our having so many chickens and lets me know it when she can.

My entire family is the same way except for John after he met everybody. He was willing to come to Natalie's chickenstock because I wanted to and now he is really looking forward to Lovinstock! It was nice for him to see that other normal wonderful people love chickens! Normal is a relative term, here.

 

[Phage]

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never a truer word......

 

[big medicine]

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My entire family is the same way except for John after he met everybody. He was willing to come to Natalie's chickenstock because I wanted to and now he is really looking forward to Lovinstock! It was nice for him to see that other normal wonderful people love chickens! Normal is a relative term, here.

We have a unfinished basement with a walled of root celler where I have my cabinet incubater and the styrafoam jobs that I use for hatchers. Since I started inocuating for Merick's (6-7 years) I built a three tier brooder that sits along a back wall of the main basement were the chicks spend their first 14 days or so untill they go out to the brooders in the coop. Usually set 4 groups at 10 day intervals,so for a couple months there are small chicks in the basement. My wife has been making more and more noise about there are not going to be any more darn chickens in her house. I'm gone to miss her.

 

[aceschix]

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My entire family is the same way except for John after he met everybody. He was willing to come to Natalie's chickenstock because I wanted to and now he is really looking forward to Lovinstock! It was nice for him to see that other normal wonderful people love chickens! Normal is a relative term, here.

We have a unfinished basement with a walled of root celler where I have my cabinet incubater and the styrafoam jobs that I use for hatchers. Since I started inocuating for Merick's (6-7 years) I built a three tier brooder that sits along a back wall of the main basement were the chicks spend their first 14 days or so untill they go out to the brooders in the coop. Usually set 4 groups at 10 day intervals,so for a couple months there are small chicks in the basement. My wife has been making more and more noise about there are not going to be any more darn chickens in her house. I'm gone to miss her.

Cute!

Big M,

Do you live in a cold climate? How do the 2 week olds do in the brooder in the barn? I am trying to decide if we build one in ine of the barns would a heat lamp be enough to keep them up to temp and healthy.