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[country lovin]

Can I do my 13 and 11 week old or are they too young

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Ok! I'm playing with the idea of finally putting these eggs in...but that means I'm officially starting... YIKES! I patched the minor cracks I discovered while candling them all (eventually from the CORRECT end, and everything has been resting. I'm coming up on 24 hours since I unpacked them all and set them in the cartons. We have ended up with 45... I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to fit the silkie eggs Jessimom generously gave me this morning, so I might just hand onto them for the next one! I'm calibrating thermometers one last time... EEEEk!

And so it begins...

You know, once you go through that door, you can never go back...

Crazy

I already know...

 

[chicknlove]

Crazy

 

[karenerwin]

Can I do my 13 and 11 week old or are they too young

Yes. Our local feed store has then in with day old chicks. How ever, their set up is vertical nipples, so maybe they are easier to move.

 

[chicknlove]

+1.

I bought a pack of 10 and drilled holes in a 2 qt pitcher and a 1 gal pitcher. I put the 2 qt in the brooder with my 3 week old chicks, and they started pecking away at the shiny nipples. Once they figured out it gave them water, all of them attacked it. I put the 1 gallon pitcher in the run with my layers, and they immediately started drinking out of it. As long as there's water in it and it isn't frozen, they'll drink from it and won't touch the 3 gallon bucket with the vertical nipples. Have you tried removing all other sources of water to encourage them to use your buckets with nipples?

I could do better. I was annoyed because I spent the time to set it all up out in the run off of a stump. Then sat out there and tapped the source to show them the water coming out for like 15 min and they all just stared at me. I raised babies in the brooder with rabbit water bottles (silkies) and they all took to it from day one. I thought maybe you can't teach an old chicken new tricks. ?

 

[chicken hawk 33]

And so it begins...   

You know, once you go through that door, you can never go back...  

I already know...   e

what

 

[Akrnaf2]

Salt, or sugar, you can try electrolytes!

Any idea what ratio of water to salt or sugar or electrolytes I would need?

See water have 3.5% salt(= 35 grams in one liter of water) its freezes at -2C ( i think it is 28F) so anthing you add to the water wiil low the freezing temp.
If you will add to the water 20g of sugar,salt and electrolyte you should reduce the temp from 0C to somthing near to -1.5 C !

 

[chicknlove]

It's so hard not to stick the daily eggs in the bator.....

I bet!

 

[BantyChooks]

Watch that tongue, young lady!

Ok! I'm playing with the idea of finally putting these eggs in...but that means I'm officially starting... YIKES! I patched the minor cracks I discovered while candling them all (eventually from the CORRECT end, and everything has been resting. I'm coming up on 24 hours since I unpacked them all and set them in the cartons. We have ended up with 45... I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to fit the silkie eggs Jessimom generously gave me this morning, so I might just hand onto them for the next one! I'm calibrating thermometers one last time... EEEEk!

And so it begins... You know, once you go through that door, you can never go back...

Crazy

I already know... e

 

[country lovin]

My post got messed up I was trying to ask about the valbazen and the 13 and 11 week olds