Incubators Anonymous

[insanity]

The really funny part is my coop is full I may need to expand and build a second at this rate.

 

[ocap]

The really funny part is my coop is full I may need to expand and build a second at this rate.

I thought I was getting a grip on educing numbers of chickens this summer when I sold 20 pullets. Eight hens went broody and produced more live chicks than I sold. My hen house is now crowded, so crowded that one of my hens lost an eye fighting with another protecting chicks.

 

[ki4got]

The really funny part is my coop is full I may need to expand and build a second at this rate.

you mean you haven't already? LOL I built my first, second, third... I'm working on the 13-17th at this point (a 4-pen section at once).


once it's done, there will be a 10x16 section on the far end that will be made up of breeding cages and a broody 'condo' with individual sections for mommas and new babies.

 

[insanity]

you mean you haven't already? LOL I built my first, second, third... I'm working on the 13-17th at this point (a 4-pen section at once).


once it's done, there will be a 10x16 section on the far end that will be made up of breeding cages and a broody 'condo' with individual sections for mommas and new babies.

That's a cool setup. My coop is maxed out at about 20 -25 birds.More would probably be fine but I don't want overcrowding in the winter when they don't play outside for weeks on end. I have one large 8 x12 coop with a 35 x 45 run. During the day they have free range access to 3/4 acre garden...I could build out in the garden and still have a shared 1/2 acre free range area. Doubt the DH would go for it.

 

[ki4got]

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these pens are designed for 3-5 LF or up to 6 or 7 bantams. breeding pens for collecting purebred eggs. otherwise they all go free range and pile into the horse trailer. AND we rarely have any winter weather that they won't come out, so they get to range all winter.

 

[insanity]

I am not doing multiple breeds just backyard easter eggers. So separation isn't necessary....yet. I will have to keep your design in mind for the future. Never know what I might try next.

 

[Sydney Acres]

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Oh dear. Time for another hen house, or a separate broody run, or another sale. Poor Mama!!

 

[Tuhmu]

All 5 of my own crosses hatched and so far I have one of my shipped eggs hatched, today is day 22. Was a complete mystery what my crosses would be lol, buff brahma roo & over red star, easter egger, and I think a buff brahma were the hens. They are big fluffy chicks with big fluffy feet, mostly yellow though the two green eggs came out with easter egger markings. Cant wait to get them out of the bator tonight for closer inspection.

 

[Sydney Acres]

All 5 of my own crosses hatched and so far I have one of my shipped eggs hatched, today is day 22. Was a complete mystery what my crosses would be lol, buff brahma roo & over red star, easter egger, and I think a buff brahma were the hens. They are big fluffy chicks with big fluffy feet, mostly yellow though the two green eggs came out with easter egger markings. Cant wait to get them out of the bator tonight for closer inspection.

If you only have one rooster than the chicks that came out of the green eggs will be Brahma X EE.

The red star is a hybrid herself, and can be created using either a RIR or a New Hampshire rooster, over either a White Rock, Silver Laced Wyandotte, RI White, or Delaware. So depending on her genetics, and what she contributes to the chick, what you get when crossed with a Brahma rooster is unpredictable, but will probably be wonderful.

And of course if one of the chicks came out of a Buff Brahma egg, that chick would be purebred.

I think they will all have some feathering on the feet, as I think that trait passes on to the mixed breeds if it is present in either parent.

 

[user213590]

Oh please keep us updated as this has got to be good

HELLO Insanity and Gander 007. Why stop? Go girl go! It's the miracle of birth....