HELP! Somebody Stop me!

[kelseygirl707]

HA Ha HA, Keith that it awesome!

 

[BarkerChickens]

We (DH and I) started out with 6 hens a year and a half ago. Now we have 51 chick in order (to be split with DH's best friend once they are 4-8 wks old)!

Yesterday we were at the feed store getting the feeders and waterer for the chicks and DH saw an incubator! He was all over it! I nipped that in the butt by reminding him that we are suppose to be getting breeds that will have a tendency towards broodiness so we don't need an incubator.

Oh and the rest of the weekend was working on building our new chicken coop!

It's a good thing that there are not any CA (Chicks Anonymous) meetings!

 

[Leah-yes I know I'm crazy]

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Building that third or fourth coop.

 

[TriciaHowe]

haha - in the process now of adding on to my already way to big coop so I can have a place to put my TURKEYS!!! Hubby is building me some seperate coop for them....I also just seperated my roos yesterday so I split into breeding pens now and seperated out my ducks too. Mainly because I have too many drakes and the hens were getting really "over loved" LOL!
I have 42 chicks in the brooder, 70 eggs in 2 bators (chicken, turkey and duck) with another egg order shipping to me the 18th - and I have a mcmurray order coming later this spring (May).
I am also thinking about getting some button quail this week. They are so darn cute

And I know I am "small scale" compared to some hatch-a-holics around here LOL!!!!!

 

[Farmer Brown]

The DW and I just ordered our first incubator Sat. This was after we decided that we did not have room for anymore chickens in the coop which is why we didn't get a silkie or two to go broody for us

Sounds like the 12'x12' shed I was going to build is gonna be more like a 12x12 coop and the tools will have to go in the old coop. On second thought maybe I will keep using the broken down van in the back as my tool shed.

We will probably need the old coop also

and by old I mean we built it in June of 08'

 

[CTChickenMom]

Okay...I have no idea about hatching eggs...don't own a bator...don't even have my first chicks yet (3 weeks!). I've been wanting to know what you all do with all of these chicks you end up with! Unless you have LOTS of space, where do you keep 200 chickens?

Buster....what are you going to do with the 90+ chicks you're going to have? I have plans to order more chicks for May and I have 4 hens that will be broody by the late summer so I don't have plans to buy a bator but I like the thought of hatching eggs.

And quail...are those for eating or do they get set free? Until I came to the BYC, I'd never met anyone who raised quail just to have them around. I thought people raised them and then set them free in the wild. Are they still called hens and roos? I saw some pics of some very pretty red and yellow quail but I've never seen eggs for sale where you could buy less that 100.

 

[luvs2garden2000]

Ha ha ha wanting help to stop. Have 69 chickens in the coop/free range, 9 chicks that are 4-5 weeks old then hatched out 45 chicks(lost one due to light malfunction so 44), this past weekend, a sports man with 120 eggs so far, setting up a staggered hatch gonna add more today. Will continue to hatch every 23 days. It does not stop.

 

[citalk2much]

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I am selling extra chicks
As for quail they are grown for food except button quail they are pets. There is a place to buy them under the other fowl for sale

 

[ChickenTender63]

I don't have any issues with the size of the incubator. Mine can hold around 800 eggs. My problem is I just don't have the money right now to buy the eggs to feed this madness. It really is sad to look at that size of incubator every day, and after this weekend, it's empty.

At least I have a few very cute fuzzy butts running around the brooder now for the next few weeks. Wish I could win the lottery so I could at least fill the bator up a quarter of the way, lol

 

[Huny]

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I don't think you need a new incubator just because they have different hatch dates. I asked yesterday and they said as long as the hatch dates are 5 or more days apart you can put them all in together and raise humidity for the three days to hatch the first batch. Someone correct me if I am wrong but that's what I'm doing. I have 20 set to hatch the 21st, and just but 36 more in yesterday.