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[Mother2Hens]

Please help ~ I'm exploiting my cat (actually named Lionel) in this video that I posted on my client's website.
Just click on this link and "Like" my "Poppy ~ The Popham Cat" video: Popham Construction Company, Inc ... - Facebook
He is pretty entertaining!
Thank you

 

[leslea]

Brooder temp question: I put a thermometer under the heat plate and it says 85 degrees. I set a room thermometer in the box and it says 71 degrees (not under the brooder). This is a Brinsea EcoGlow. Is it going to be warm enough? Surprised it says 85 after 24 hours on. Should I get another lamp just in case?

 

[ChickCrazed]

Brooder temp question: I put a thermometer under the heat plate and it says 85 degrees. I set a room thermometer in the box and it says 71 degrees (not under the brooder). This is a Brinsea EcoGlow. Is it going to be warm enough? Surprised it says 85 after 24 hours on. Should I get another lamp just in case?

Yes, it is a more natural way to heat the chicks (like a broody). The chicks go under the EcoGlow when they want to hide or are cold and press against the bottom (make sure it isn't set too high). Then they go out and eat/drink/play until they need to warm up again. People say this is more natural, safer, and they feather out faster this way.

 

[pginsber]

Dolly, our Silkie chick, has made herself quite at home--in the house--watching TV with her buddy. When they are together, they are supervised, but they have really taken to each other. She pecks at the spots on the dog's fur, and snuggles with the dog. The dog watches the chick very intently--of course the dog's secretly hoping her chick will drop a 'treat'.

This dog was keen on the chicks from our last group, too. She's very sweet and gentle.

 

[racinchickins]

Brooder temp question: I put a thermometer under the heat plate and it says 85 degrees. I set a room thermometer in the box and it says 71 degrees (not under the brooder). This is a Brinsea EcoGlow. Is it going to be warm enough? Surprised it says 85 after 24 hours on. Should I get another lamp just in case?

to get a true reading, you would need to press the thermometer against the bottom of the plate. If the air temp in the area under the plate is 85, I would think you are good. I've never measured the temp under mine (I have both brinsea and premiere1). I just plug them in, wait an hour, then start putting chicks under them. To me, they beat a heat lamp any day of the week. No fire danger, huge electric savings, and better day/night experience for the chicks. @ChickCrazed is right, The chicks will decide when they need the heat and when they don't. Just make sure that when you first put them under there, don't give them a lot of area to wander away from the plate. Just enough room for the plate, food, and water seems to work for me. Once they get used to all three, then I open up the rest of the brooder space.

 

[racinchickins]

Someone is willing to send me a dozen rumpless tufted blue or splash barred araucana eggs. I could really only keep 1 baby and don't have a bator at this point anymore. Would someone with a bator hatch them and be willing to give me a pullet and keep whatever else hatches.

Send me a pm. We can work something out. I just incubated some Buckeyes for another member and hatched 10/11 fertile eggs for her. (the 12th egg wasn't fertile). (These were not shipped eggs)

Two things to be aware of:
As @SallyinIndiana said, 50% hatch on shipped eggs is considered good. My best hatch on shipped eggs so far is 45%, my worst is 0%. I've only tried 3 times though.
AND
The tufted gene in Araucana's is fatal when homozygous. This means that you can lose up to 25% of a hatch to that also.

I'm definitely willing to hatch for you (gotta feed the addiction), just wanted you to have full disclosure on potential issues that would apply to anyone hatching these eggs.

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

Send me a pm.  We can work something out.  I just incubated some Buckeyes for another member and hatched 10/11 fertile eggs for her. (the 12th egg wasn't fertile).  (These were not shipped eggs)

Two things to be aware of:  
As @SallyinIndiana
 said, 50% hatch on shipped eggs is considered good.  My best hatch on shipped eggs so far is 45%, my worst is 0%.  I've only tried 3 times though.
AND
The tufted gene in Araucana's is fatal when homozygous.  This means that you can lose up to 25% of a hatch to that also.  

I'm definitely willing to hatch for you (gotta feed the addiction), just wanted you to have full disclosure on potential issues that would apply to anyone hatching these eggs.

Yeah the dad is clean faced the mom us tufted so I don't think that should be a huge issue. And I've actually read it was 50%!! Geez. Someone said if you feed them certain foods that brings that rate down but I don't see why it would. Has anyone here ever seen a splash barred? I think ellymayRans might be doing it for me...I will let her pipe in. I think I annoyed her last night lol. Anyway if she decides she doesn't want to I will send them your way. I also would need them grown out enough that I could decipher gender, so I don't know if that would change your answer. But I think maybe I will sit and hope for a 25-50% hatch rate, anywhere from 3 to 6. Got my fingers crossed. My luck they will all be roos. If there is say 1 female and 2 males i will take the females, but I am also willing to bring her out to someone for a month or so so they can get some eggs to hatch. <3 <3 cross your fingers everyone

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

Hmm. Kid get someone's keyboard?

 

[bradselig]

Or trying to increase post count. Looks like they did the same thing on other threads

 

[bradselig]

Anyone else on northern Indiana going to the Wolfs Giant Swap up near Ligonier? It's this Saturday from like 6am-1pm. Not only do they have animals, they have just about everything else. If you are needing a wire cage, they make them on site with a large pole building full at a very reasonable price!