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Well...I have 9 baby chicks in the brooder. There are 2 un pipped eggs in the incubator. Not sure when I should call it. It is day 22.

Here are some pics!









so adorably fluffy!!
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Well...I have 9 baby chicks in the brooder. There are 2 un pipped eggs in the incubator. Not sure when I should call it. It is day 22. Here are some pics!
Awe sooo adorable! Congrats! I would give it another day before pulling it to candle and tap test. Is it not rocking? I usually let them stay til day 23 before I mess with them. Then again I've done day 22 also! ;)
 
Woohoo!! I did my 10 day candle and 18/20 of my Bielie eggs (all gathered at the end of each sub-freezing day) are developing!!!! I thought for sure it was too cold and most would be toast. Those suckers are a lot hardier than I thought! I am going to start setting any that haven't cracked now!

I can't believe I am more than halfway to chickville. I am going to be a nervous wreck! So day 18 I stop turning and increase humidity?

I also need to make a better candler at some point if anyone has any recommendations on how to build a good one.
I go the simple (& cheap) route. I found a very bright 9 LED flashlight (maybe $2-3). I grabbed some peel-n-stick craft foam from the kids & cut an o-ring to place around the rim. It's small compact, & portable. It works for seeing the veins in my brown eggs but probably only a shadow for the dark eggs. If anyone knows how to see through one of those, please share.
 
Question: How do you handle getting chicks from more than one place? My first chicks will hatch in a week or so (from kittydoc) Then I am getting chicks from at least 2 other places. So do I treat it like "quarantine"? But not sure how to do that. I mean, if I do a month quarantine, my youngest chicks will still not be outside yet, so then I try to brood in 2 different places in the house? In my house is the only place I have to brood. The next will probably be 4 EEs that I very likely will just stick under my broody (since my roo died and she is sitting on unfertile eggs), but if that does not work well then they would have to come inside. Of course DD is very happy to offer the area under her loft to brood her babies - then the first chicks would be downstairs in the dining/school room. Sometime in late April beg/May would be the next batch (for now, if zoning changes there may be more so I can get grandfathered in!). By then hopefully the first batch will be outside in the grow out coop and hopefully the EEs will be outside with their surrogate mom.

So I guess the big question is do you keep chicks from different places separate, how do you do it and for how long?

Thanks!
 
good news and bad news....for you acornewell
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/6/diseases-of-poultry/220/slipped-tendon-perosis
if not treated within the first 24 hours.....well you can watch the video...
good news is you hatched some chicks....

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AwrTcczIp_hUI9EATmgnnIlQ?qid=20130315174414AAoXK19

sorry to be the baron of bad news...i hope you still have time....
just moved another to the brooder....and one chirping inside the egg but no pip yet....getting nervous it might be malpositioned....hope not
 
Question: How do you handle getting chicks from more than one place? My first chicks will hatch in a week or so (from kittydoc) Then I am getting chicks from at least 2 other places.  So do I treat it like "quarantine"? But not sure how to do that. I mean, if I do a month quarantine, my youngest chicks will still not be outside yet, so then I try to brood in 2 different places in the house? In my house is the only place I have to brood.  The next will probably be 4 EEs that I very likely will just stick under my broody (since my roo died and she is sitting on unfertile eggs), but if that does not work well then they would have to come inside. Of course DD is very happy to offer the area under her loft to brood her babies - then the first chicks would be downstairs in the dining/school room. Sometime in late April beg/May would be the next batch (for now, if zoning changes there may be more so I can get grandfathered in!). By then hopefully the first batch will be outside in the grow out coop and hopefully the EEs will be outside with their surrogate mom. 

So I guess the big question is do you keep chicks from different places separate, how do you do it and for how long? 

Thanks!
Probably not the correct answer but if I get them as chicks (under a couple weeks old) they are all mixed in together. They are "quarantined" (kept in house or garage) until they are out from under a heat lamp/fully feathered. Then they will be introduced to the rest of the flock or In Pens near the flocks. IMO, it will be much harder to constantly introduce new flocks every couple weeks. You will be causing more stress on your current flock. Its not ideal either way, but for me it makes more sense to potentially lose my chicks when housed all together than it is to constantly go through the stress of introducing new flocks all the time.
 
Question: How do you handle getting chicks from more than one place? My first chicks will hatch in a week or so (from kittydoc) Then I am getting chicks from at least 2 other places. So do I treat it like "quarantine"? But not sure how to do that. I mean, if I do a month quarantine, my youngest chicks will still not be outside yet, so then I try to brood in 2 different places in the house? In my house is the only place I have to brood. The next will probably be 4 EEs that I very likely will just stick under my broody (since my roo died and she is sitting on unfertile eggs), but if that does not work well then they would have to come inside. Of course DD is very happy to offer the area under her loft to brood her babies - then the first chicks would be downstairs in the dining/school room. Sometime in late April beg/May would be the next batch (for now, if zoning changes there may be more so I can get grandfathered in!). By then hopefully the first batch will be outside in the grow out coop and hopefully the EEs will be outside with their surrogate mom.

So I guess the big question is do you keep chicks from different places separate, how do you do it and for how long?

Thanks!

We only did about a 5-7 day quarantine the one time we combined two groups of young chicks. Chicks that have never been outside can still get sick and die, but generally not from communicable diseases unless bought from feed stores that sometimes buy from bad commercial hatcheries. If you are buying your other chicks from someone reputable and they have been brooded artificially (not under a hen with access to soil/poop and other chickens), it shouldn't be a problem. Chicks that are doomed often seem to sicken within the first week from what I have read on this board (we've never lost one except one that was shipped and arrived with a broken femur--I put it down), but we are very lucky to have never had any infectious disease in chicks we hatched here. I felt very comfortable with both breeders whose chicks I "combined" and we encountered no problems. I got to see both properties, and one of them was NPIP certified (as I am). Longer quarantine is definitely needed for older chicks (several weeks and up), adults, and your own that are shown. The 6-9 week old birds I purchased through the mail from out of state were quarantined for a month, and they had coccidiosis, but that was it. Easy fix, but I'm glad I didn't have to treat the whole flock, just the four pullets who were affected.
 

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