INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[BantyChooks]

Take care, kiddo. Keep me posted please

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With four brains, I think we gave the kiddo a good starting point!!! Good job everybody with all the help!!!

Duckling and I had a bad evening. She was overtired, and I was annoyed with her MIA parents. I got careless, and a PVC pipe popped out of its cinder block (it was arched, and one end in each of two blocks) and whipped me in the eye twice.
Her father showed up an hour later after she was finally asleep.

I am down to a dozen or so. I might be drinking them all tonight.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Because sometimes you need an icepack and pain reliever in one can.

I'm doing the same but now problem with my eye.

Who punched you and why?

 

[lindalouly]

I am on my third ice pack now. I don't even feel it anymore!
Nope!

I'm joining you without an owie.

 

[BullChick]

You're lucky

I actually am! In so many ways!

It drives me just a little nuts when someone has a problem and asks for advice but never answers any of the questions.
I still don't know what they meant by stuck up tail.

To be fair, there were a lot of posts to respond to. But, yes.

I'm doing the same but now problem with my eye.

Who punched you and why?

For once, it isn't from a person.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Mr. Evil PVC "punched" her. Same thing has happened enough times to me that I actually now refuse to use the stuff - I'd probably knock myself out or put out an eye eventually. I got a conduit bender and make arches out of that, once I learned how for the tractor coops. No evil springing...

- Ant Farm

 

[BullChick]

I'm joining you without an owie.

I'm doing the same but now problem with my eye.

So why am I here, drinking alone? Pics or it didn't happen!!!

 

[BullChick]

I got a conduit bender and make arches out of that, once I learned how for the tractor coops. No evil springing...

- Ant Farm

Sounds good!

 

[BusyBearMama]

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All good advice has been given so far.

I use paper towels for the first couple weeks too.

The only thing I would add is that in a small space, a heat lamp may be too hot. If using a Rubbermaid type tub, a plain 75 watt heat lamp is enough. I prefer a larger space with heat on one end and lots of cool space. It is entirely possible for chicks to get too hot and die in a small brooder.
I hung a heatlamp above a Rubbermaid tub once and put a thermometer on the floor. It exploded.
I left 2 chicks that had just hatched for a friend that was babysitting chickens while I went out of town. They got too hot and died.
If the space is too small to have a warm spot and cool space, I would prefer the space to be cooler than too warm. With 9 chicks they can help keep each other warm if there's no draft.

As has been said, if seeking help, it would help us help you if you answer all the questions asked when asked rather than one or two and dragging all this out for days.

Oh I very much agree. I'm going to post a photo of my brooder set up, cheap, easy to put together and lots of cool space and ventilation. I also don't know if it will be of any help hehe.

clearly they love dumping their food but this has worked perfectly and I have t moved a thing in ages, dozens of chicks have gone through here, at 2-3 weeks the move to one on the ground that 2x the size. This keeps going to the cool side a bit. These guys are 2 days old. And I rarely move the heat lamp- they move further away if they're hot and it's cool over there. Temperature regulation can be really hard and those of us that have raised a lot of birds can usually look back on stories like this and their own and remember a lot of lessons learned. I'm glad you mentioned the tote maybe over heating! Those things don't have good ventilation :-/

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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[lindalouly]

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