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[DuckGirl77]

3 so far, i don't think I will ever get over how small quail chicks are.

Awwww, so cute and teeny tiny!!!!!
Now you're making me want quails. No! I don't have room! But they're small ..... But I don't have time! But it wouldn't be that time-consuming to have more birds ....

Looks like my turn for chick problems now.....

While checking the chicks today, I noticed they seem skinny. (2 chicks)

They are alert, bright-eyed, and active.

I do not have any pictures of their poop, but all poop in the brooder (they share with 4 guineas, all of which seem to have a healthy weight) is normal. No blood.

They are being fed Purina flock raiser, which is not medicated.

Their brooder is clean, dry paper shavings with a seed starting mat for heat. Ambient temp is about 75 degrees f.

They are 19 days old.

I will get weights on them shortly.

Am I overreacting? Should I just feed them scrambled egg and see if that helps?

What did I forget to add info-wise?
-Banti

What do you mean by skinny? Not eating enough? Or just not roundish? I had some chicks that ate enough but were just thin.

Hope they're OK!

I'm just terribly nervous about these babies..... My last two of Sally's lil uns left. I don't want to kill them by ignoring it........

Yes, I can. I have a scale that measures grams.
Not me, I'm not a sports person.


Night all!

Catch ya later, Banti!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Tank escaped his paddock to sleep on top of his future girls' coop every night for over a month. Put him up every single night. It started when one girl perched on top and it got dark. He kept her company and protected her until I got home. (I never let them stay out at night. Owls nest in my yard, even if there weren't other night predators.)



I love Jameson, and Irish whiskey in general. Won't touch Scotch - yuck.

Yes, you were all good with him. I am not as patient as I'd like, so I kept quiet.

- Ant Farm

I just had to catch 2 stupid hens that were roosting on the same pen in the same spot where the others got killed.

Question for Chicken Canoe please! Are you in a trade? And if so which? I am a rookie Apprentice Toolmaker and learning so much and enjoy the tidbits journeymen throw at me.

Good for you.
There isn't as much diversity of trades any more. There is a tendency of most companies to hire jacks of all trades.
Toolmaker is a pretty specialized trade that not many people can do.
I was a journeyman industrial electrician in the UAW. I've worked as a pipefitter and welder but without a card.
Modern day toolmakers use those fancy computerized lathes. Back in the day we had all kinds of obscure trades. Besides welders, we always had at least one blacksmith. Our toolmakers, besides repairing the machines also actually hand made tools - anything someone devised they thought would make their job easier.
We had carpenters, pipefitters, millwrights, tinners, glazers, oilers, steam engineers, a pump man and occasionally boilermakers.
There was occasionally overlap between tasks.
Carpenters did everything with wood but also all the concrete work.
Pipefitters did everything that involved fluids, gasses and anything under pressure.
Millwrights set up machines assuring that everything was properly aligned and level. But because they dealt with such heavy stuff, we sometimes called them mulewrights. They were always called when something needed heavy muscle.
Tinners did everything needing sheet metal.
Glazers did all the painting and glass work.
Oilers were at the bottom of the totem pole. All they did was have a route of machines they lubricated. They did have an impressive list of lubes they had to maintain.
A pump man rebuilds large compressors, driers and pumps. Our pump man was the only one remaining in the Ford system. Many plants had multiple buildings housing multiple compressors. Ours had a single building with all the compression. 6 compressors ran the entire plant. One had to run 24/7. It ran on 5400 volts.
Electricians worked on everything that had electricity running to it.
Stationary steam was another very specialized trade.
In the old days, most things ran on steam or compressed air.
Electricity eventually took over those tasks.
We went from having 100 pipefitters and 25 electricians to having 30 pipefitters and 125 electricians.

 

[BantyChooks]

Awwww, so cute and teeny tiny!!!!!
Now you're making me want quails. No! I don't have room! But they're small ..... But I don't have time! But it wouldn't be that time-consuming to have more birds ....

What do you mean by skinny? Not eating enough? Or just not roundish? I had some chicks that ate enough but were just thin.   Hope they're OK!



Catch ya later, Banti! 

Eating like horses, (well, they are eating, but it might be the keets that are eating a lot of it) just a sharper keel than I usually see in my babies.


Now I'm really going to bed!

 

[cabinchicky]

My wife's Grand Prix has 239,000 and we took it on a trip.....I admit I was a little worried.

I've been on some long trips with it. It used to be my son's car but I needed a ford to drive to KC every week. (if you didn't have a ford, you had to park at the far end of the lot)
I can't tell you how many cars I've had with over 200k on them.

Thank you!

20%, crumble. It says it has probiotics in it, but not sure how much.

http://www.purinamills.com/chicken-feed/products/flock-raiser/

Ditto!

You should be good. I've had healthy runts before.
They don't all grow at the same rate anyway.
IMHO, that's a pretty good feed.
Fresh feed, clean water, excellent ventilation, clean bedding, a warm spot, cool space, hemeral lighting and that's all you can do.

 
No, the one I saw wasn't a video. You said you'd left some of the original stone to show what you'd started with.....ring a bell?

The duck pics are farther down the page in that ungodly long multipost.

CC you work/worked at KC? I have 17 yrs in at LEP and on an Apprenticeship. I know what you mean on the long walk bit. Thankfully I haven't had to park in the foreign lot.

 

[BullChick]

Night MC.
The thing is, these are my only two chicks. The other three died.

The guineas they are in with are older and younger than them. They are 18-20 days old. I have a very mixed batch of ages...

 

[DuckGirl77]

Well, BYC just started acting whacky for me - no quotes, no emoticons, no tags, lots of lagging. But -

@Ur-ur-ur-urrr, thank you - and thanks to anyone else who wished me happy birthday!!!! It was a pretty mellow one. I think it's LocalYokel's birthday today as well - Happy birthday, Loco!!!!

(Nice coop, Joey!!!! Can you come build mine next?! )

- Ant Farm

(OK, I give up - I'm out of here for the night if BYC isn't going to play nice.)

BYC was weird earlier today for me, too. The ads made it slow, I guess.

So sorry, I forgot! Happy Birthday!

And to LocalYokel, too!

 

[DuckGirl77]

Night MC.

The thing is, these are my only two chicks. The other three died.

The guineas they are in with are older and younger than them. They are 18-20 days old. I have a very mixed batch of ages...

Eating like horses, (well, they are eating, but it might be the keets that are eating a lot of it) just a sharper keel than I usually see in my babies.


Now I'm really going to bed!

K, g'night for real!

Hope your chicks are OK!

I'd be a nervous wreck! Praying for you ....

 

[DuckGirl77]

Humidity in the bator is 36%, and lockdown is tomorrow. I doubt the air cells are small enough. If they are still too small tomorrow when I candle, can I postpone lockdown for a day? I don't want sticky chicks ....
I have learned my lesson!

Good night, everybody, I'm off for some much-needed sleep!

 

[cabinchicky]

Tank escaped his paddock to sleep on top of his future girls' coop every night for over a month. Put him up every single night. It started when one girl perched on top and it got dark. He kept her company and protected her until I got home. (I never let them stay out at night. Owls nest in my yard, even if there weren't other night predators.) I love Jameson, and Irish whiskey in general. Won't touch Scotch - yuck. Yes, you were all good with him. I am not as patient as I'd like, so I kept quiet. - Ant Farm

I just had to catch 2 stupid hens that were roosting on the same pen in the same spot where the others got killed.

Question for Chicken Canoe please! Are you in a trade? And if so which? I am a rookie Apprentice Toolmaker and learning so much and enjoy the tidbits journeymen throw at me.

Good for you. There isn't as much diversity of trades any more. There is a tendency of most companies to hire jacks of all trades. Toolmaker is a pretty specialized trade that not many people can do. I was a journeyman industrial electrician in the UAW. I've worked as a pipefitter and welder but without a card. Modern day toolmakers use those fancy computerized lathes. Back in the day we had all kinds of obscure trades. Besides welders, we always had at least one blacksmith. Our toolmakers, besides repairing the machines also actually hand made tools - anything someone devised they thought would make their job easier. We had carpenters, pipefitters, millwrights, tinners, glazers, oilers, steam engineers, a pump man and occasionally boilermakers. There was occasionally overlap between tasks. Carpenters did everything with wood but also all the concrete work. Pipefitters did everything that involved fluids, gasses and anything under pressure. Millwrights set up machines assuring that everything was properly aligned and level. But because they dealt with such heavy stuff, we sometimes called them mulewrights. They were always called when something needed heavy muscle. Tinners did everything needing sheet metal. Glazers did all the painting and glass work. Oilers were at the bottom of the totem pole. All they did was have a route of machines they lubricated. They did have an impressive list of lubes they had to maintain. A pump man rebuilds large compressors, driers and pumps. Our pump man was the only one remaining in the Ford system. Many plants had multiple buildings housing multiple compressors. Ours had a single building with all the compression. 6 compressors ran the entire plant. One had to run 24/7. It ran on 5400 volts. Electricians worked on everything that had electricity running to it. Stationary steam was another very specialized trade. In the old days, most things ran on steam or compressed air. Electricity eventually took over those tasks. We went from having 100 pipefitters and 25 electricians to having 30 pipefitters and 125 electricians.

Thanks you! We have only 4 CNC Mill/Lathes in my plants. Most of the mills and Lathes there are close to my retired Toolmaker Father's age. And I am learning them! I don't know our current numbers on trades but the electricians are the largest group. Then machine repair,millwrights, toolmaker, powerhouse, pipe fitters, tinners and painters. Our numbers are increasing slowly but I doubt I will ever see the toolroom have 90 again.

 

[BullChick]

Humidity in the bator is 36%, and lockdown is tomorrow. I doubt the air cells are small enough. If they are still too small tomorrow when I candle, can I postpone lockdown for a day? I don't want sticky chicks ....
I have learned my lesson! 

Good night, everybody, I'm off for some much-needed sleep!

Yes, you can.
Good night!