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[Sally Sunshine]

!בוקר טוב חומד

בוקר טוב גם לך ידידי!

dawwwwww

 

[Peep-Chicken]

My chickens dont know the difference between any of the seasons. They aint the brightest bulb in the box so to speak.

Yes she did!

 

[fire370]

idk,yes my mom got this instead of paper towels

Ok CH, here is my preference and how I do things. All of my hatchers are lined with perforated gripping drawers liner, I do not remove any chicks until hatch is complete, and they go straight into brooders with pine shavings.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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Good morning Sunshine!

mornin hero! how was yer hot date last night?

Warm thoughts to everyone who needs them.

There you are beautiful!! def we be needed warm anything right? are you guys keepin warm up there?

@Sally Sunshine Of 24 eggs set; 2 clear, 1 early quitter. 21 went to lockdown. 18 born, 3 DIS.

Mornin MC my silly loving friend!

That is a good hatch MC and I love the pic of ducklin.

Morning Sally! Get any hatchers overnight? I woke up to one poult and one zipping so far.

snuck a candle of a few seen internals, no externals so I closed them up and upped the humidity

Morning Sally!

Morning campin! busy day ahead?

Been out and done feeding chores. Put down a BCM pullet while I was out and about. Mama and Brit are at the airport putting 3 pups on a plane headed for their new homes. They did the same drill yesterday but with 5 pups. We are getting close to our new girl shipping from Germany. Oh, and the Loki/Faith breeding is a confirmed pregnancy, pups due April 6th. This is the 100% A.I. breeding I posted about.

what was wrong with the pullet? CONGRATS on the PREGO!!! good for you fire!!

Good morning Sally.

CC your actually online!! morning how cold are you up there?

Good morning Sally. Busy weekend. Termites, pool filter, coops, and move more dirt for neighbors.
oh and Valentine's Day Order to above list is subject to discretion on my part of course.

Morning Peter!!!

ohhhh VDay! pool filter!!! Termites!!! eeeee gadsss

And,should I separate the serama from the ee

NO they will be fine all together, no need for two brooders, I always keep my serama in with even my godzilla egg chicks!! they will be fine! Use papertowels over the shavings the first few days in the brooder mostly BECAUSE of the TINY SERAMA chicks!

PEEP!!! morning sweets!

 

[country lovin]

Well we had a traumatizing morning. My niece spent the night with us and woke up early to go check on the chicks and one hadn't made it. A lot of tears this morning.
One a better note there is this one

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I think I should have fed her first!

Hands down, sweetest photo I've ever seen.

I need to go get some insulin for the diabetes you just gave me...

Ok guys. I am off to the serama show! See ya all later

Good luck!

Go for it! You'd make a great vet.

Agree!!!

Yes, is safe but for at least the first few days, I'd use paper towels until they get strength in their legs and good footing before switching to shavings. I keep mine on towels for their first week.

@chicken hawk 33 This is how I do it. To make it easier, when setting up, I put down pine shavings in the brooder FIRST, and then put the paper towels on top of that. I switch out or layer more paper towels on top as they make a mess. After they're all running around really well, I just remove the paper towels and viola - they're on the pine shavings! Less stressful on them than trying to add shavings while they're in there, or taking them out to add shavings. I have them on paper towels now - leaving it a wee bit longer than I normally would because I have a little boy with leg hobbles for splay leg (doing very well, BTW).

I have them in a small kiddie pool right now - need to move them to a bigger brooder today. My project today is to clear floor space in the mudroom to more easily accommodate the bigger brooder and still let me walk around the edges.

- Ant Farm

Edit: Yeah, what Sally said.

 

[fire370]

@sally sunshine

Hot date was awesome! This particular pullet has always been a runt and yesterday I noticed her just not acting right. This morning she was down and sluggish. Wife is gone so I doctored in my normal fashion given the opportunity.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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can you tell what color poult will be? come on babies!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Well we had a traumatizing morning. My niece spent the night with us and woke up early to go check on the chicks and one hadn't made it. A lot of tears this morning.
One a better note there is this one

oh man TyAnna that sucks! so sorry

but I am so glad you have another!! you have an update for our ummm updates lol

@sally sunshine

Hot date was awesome! This particular pullet has always been a runt and yesterday I noticed her just not acting right. This morning she was down and sluggish. Wife is gone so I doctored in my normal fashion given the opportunity.

Good for you fire! I would have done the same with the pullet. These were the new ones you got shipped in? How do you incubate your shipped eggs?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Kristin your hilarious, and so sweet!