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[Webechickens]

Lucky you!

 

[julie0477]

Brad selig ccccchickens- those chicks are adorable!
My six year old hen decided to start crowing with the roosters this morning. She's been hanging out by herself a lot. Not acting sick, just mostly foraging, etc alone, and now she is crowing. Lol she's apparently going thru something. Maybe a mid life crisis?

 

[Webechickens]

Had a nice surprise phone call today. My sister In law called and said my brother and family friend are butchering chickens and wanted to know if I wanted to help. We got 18 Cornish X free from other family friends. They were extras they raised for 4H and weren't going to show them. Not sure why they didn't want to butcher them, but Im not complaining! Can't beat free fresh chickens and not having to deal with raising and feeding the stinky things!

Lucky you!
Trying to figure this quote thing out. lol

 

[oldrooster]

Quote: the link needs to be adjusted just a touch. it is www.mcpoultry.org google found it for me when I left off the end of sentence period. But it does not have the show info up yet as they are concentrating on their fair stuff for the next two weeks. I'm sure it will be there after the fair. The 27th is the 4H poultry show in Bloomington. I learned that from the site.

I think it may have been my browser, I clicked on it a few times and all I got was the next page of threads so I decided to cut and pate it and it worked. who knew web browsers won't let you browse???

 

[Crafty chick]

oh shawna, so sorry about your flock

 

[Crafty chick]

yeah jchny~ my DH hates picking beans, so it was funny to see the girls mocking him

 

[CRSelvey]

Good morning everyone!

ShawnaScott- I am so sorry about your flock, your dogs, and your MIL. What a sad situation.

The chick pics are all cute, thank you for sharing. My kids are loving them and asking for more. After a long discussion with the 3 & 5 year olds we decided that we could "sell/eat/rehome" four of our boys and get more hens. That was big for them since they have raised some of these guys since they were born.

We are off to Menards to get cedar shingles for the coop....we are in the home stretch. As much as I like talking and thinking about chickens, its not great having the never ending project looming over our heads, lol. I'm just so happy we can get to the business of just watching the chickens soon and playing in the garden.

 

[DarthLayer]

Can somebody give me advice on this or what I should do?
I have eggs in the incubator and today is day 7 . I plan on candling them later on but humidity in the incubator is causing me trouble. Originally I was going to use wet incubation but I have read dry incubation is wonderful so I decided to do dry incubation before the eggs arrived. Right now the humidity is 46% which I'm quite baffled by because I was able to get it down to 39-40% on day 2. I did put our dehumidifier in the room the incubator was in but I had to take it out because my dad said it was making the room hotter and making the air conditioner kick on more. But now I'm wondering if its possible to switch to wet incubation now at day 7 because I'm afraid that as the chicks develope more humidity is going to be added and none will hatch. I'm a newbie using an incubator ( last time I used a hen. Actually two because I had another broody hen that stole the other hens chicks when they hatched. )

 

[MillerBirds]

I have sad news to report. We got chicken wire up to prevent any more chicken Houdini's from escaping during the night, and we have been working on getting a temporary run/fence. In between those times we were letting the dogs out on a cable. Today my MIL came over unannounced and let one dog out, and as I scrambled to get her in before she took after the chickens, MIL came out and let a second dog out. I lost half my flock.

I am so sorry for your news. We are close to you. Would you like some of my birds?

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Can somebody give me advice on this or what I should do?
I have eggs in the incubator and today is day 7 . I plan on candling them later on but humidity in the incubator is causing me trouble. Originally I was going to use wet incubation but I have read dry incubation is wonderful so I decided to do dry incubation before the eggs arrived. Right now the humidity is 46% which I'm quite baffled by because I was able to get it down to 39-40% on day 2. I did put our dehumidifier in the room the incubator was in but I had to take it out because my dad said it was making the room hotter and making the air conditioner kick on more. But now I'm wondering if its possible to switch to wet incubation now at day 7 because I'm afraid that as the chicks develope more humidity is going to be added and none will hatch. I'm a newbie using an incubator ( last time I used a hen. Actually two because I had another broody hen that stole the other hens chicks when they hatched. )

46% is a fine level, and yes it might gradually increase as the chicks age. Still switching to wet will only increase the humidity. As long as the humidity is below 55, you should be fine. you don't want it overly dry as the shells will become very hard to the point the chicks have trouble getting out. Also too little humidity in the lockdown period can trap a chick as well. There needs to be a balance.

Check out this link, it shows how the air bubble should grow. https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101