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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!
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.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.
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!
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!