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[Mojo Chick'n]

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I may need to add some dark cornish to my "plan"

 

[sune42]

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Na, I don't scare too easily... and for what it's worth I am a Capricorn.

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I thought i had read 3sq ft a bird is pretty good. Is there a better measurement I should use? Wyandottes are pretty hardy as I have read, so I could let them out a bit provided its not 20 with a windchill of -472, LOL. I live in a suburban area, an oldrer area, and I haven't seen any hawks. I know there are raccoons and I many have heard an owl but not sure.

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I don't remember if I put it in, but the run I am planning is 6x6, but there is a 3x3 area cut out cause I am going to build it around the coop. If that makes sense.... See, this is why I haven't ordered chickens yet, I don't want to go into this half cocked. Although I did put some in the shopping cart last night... just to see. I removed them.


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Thanks for the site, I had actually seen it already, but it has great info. Says my chicks are mostly docile and take confinement well.

Thanks for the welcome. I figure once I am around longer I might go up in the pecking order, lol.

 

[sune42]

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Oh yea, forgot to add, hubby loves the JG, really wanted to get some. I told him he was mad, we didnt have room for 10lb chickens. Also, I saw the pics of your chicken taking on the snake, really neat!

 

[shelleyd2008]

Ah yes, the fur kids. Our fur kids either killed Cris's ugly silkie roo or they ate him after he died. I think they killed him, and that's what dad thinks too. Stupid pups. They are getting to know which birds they can mess with, and which they can't. One of dad's hens, a bantam EE, does not like puppies at all. She will chase them and fight them to the death if they get any where near her. They try to stear clear of that bird. One of the pups got a bit too nosey with dad's brahma pullet that was running the yard, and the pup got a peck on the nose. I hope silkie mama's are as mean as people say they are, or I'll probably be missing some chicks. I have 2 broody silkies who are both free rangers. I wish I had a place to pen them, or the materials to make another tractor. I have plenty of wood, but wire is a bit scarce right now. I have hardware cloth, but not enough to make a pen worth a darn for chickens. It would work good for quail, but they don't need as much space.

 

[roosterjerry]

I uploaded some pictures yesterday not sure how to post them.Let me try this

 

[Bluedog420]

Good morning y'all
...I bought this antique bator yesterday, from a 92 year old man. He said jt was the best thing he ever used for geese and duck's. So I am thinking it will be great for chick's..lol...y'all let me know if you have seen one of these? ....The name of it is a MAKOMB steel product's.Macomb, Il

 

[shelleyd2008]

I saw one at the Sano auction one day. I believe it is a hovabator? Not sure though. There are a lot of people on here that have them it seems. They are supposed to work good, even when they are antiques.

Are you going to the Casey Co. auction?

ETA: Good morning

ETA again: It could also be a brower top hatch? I'm not sure, but I know I've seen them on here before too.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Casey County Auction

I have the list posted on here. It has the directions and time and everything on that thread.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Day & Day had black cochins and buff cochins this morning - their bantam asst. mix was small - maybe 25 chicks, they didn't put those into the general bin - not sure what she's gonna do with them.

NO brahmas

well, they had one that someone else had hatched and brought in, I got that one, but I think it's a girl - which is fine, but a little roo would have been better - then I could breed my own.

I ended up getting three bags of flock raiser for the cornish crosses and got that brahma and filled out my order with australorps and barred rocks. I would have just gotten the BR and passed on any other chicks, but I had already bought the bags of feed while I was waiting on Julie to get back from the post office. They hardly got any BR this time - I think I got them all.

They did have Khaki Campbell ducklings - almost bought some of those, but I don't have room

Next order comes in Aprtil 1st.

I may have to just order some Brahmas and bite the bullet on the cost of the dang things (and waiting a lot longer to get them

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I'm sort of at capacity for chick space right now anyway, I guess, I just WANT them!!!


ETA - they ahd a australorp chick in the bunch with four legs !!

fully formed, the back two were atrophied, no use to him, but he had four fully formed legs

. Poor baby, whoever gets him will have to name him Drumstick - or maybe Tod Browning

(gurble gobble, gurble gobble, one of us, one of us!!)

meri

 

[estpr13]

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I saw a bator like this once when growing up and didn't know much about it. But I have seen them listed on Ebay and other places. Sears use to sell a type of Galvanized bator simular to these as well as Montgomery Wards I think. A lot were sold by mail order.

If it is still in good working condition it should be fine. Check out the electric cord as they can deteriorate. Some of them held 25 to 50 and even 100 eggs. My memory is fuzzy. But you probably got a good deal.

I checked on my bator this morning. All but 7 of the 26 eggs have hatched. One poor thing still has its yoke sack on the outside an is blooding up the other chicks and eggs. Yuck... I'm scared to cut it off, and don't have any place to Isolate him/it. It seems to be a healthy chick with good energy so far so I paper toweled it off and put it back.

There is a lot of energy and movement in the bator this morning. I was expecting red silkies but it appears that I have a variety from the chick colors. Still hard to tell, they are all still a bit wet. Some of the ones which hatched out last night are dry enough to see the chick paterns and they look nice.