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[Mojo Chick'n]

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Sammy (youngest kid) got chickenpox in 1st grade and got angry and cried because he couldn't go to school, anyway.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

argh!!!!!!

Ok, so I'm sitting here cruising BYC and Toby goes nuts barking and I can hear him running across the field (his barks got less loud) so I go to check, and he and Lily are running back towards the house with two huge coyotes after them. These suckers were as tall as Lily is!!

I grab the gun (right inside the door) but they saw me, and are already "just" out of sight beyond the edge of the house, so by the time I get off the porch to get a better shot, they are gone. I heard a lot of gunfire down the other pasture, though (maybe 1/2 mile away) so maybe someone else got them.

so, Toby and I stand guard for abit (while Lily lays on the porch - useless dog) then I figure they are probably gone so we go inside, and I hear very loud peeping. I think "Oh man!!!" and go to the incubators and have a chick out, and three other pips - in the turners, because I hadn't planned on putting them in the hatcher until tonight - because as far as I could tell, the due date on these is Saturday.

I didn't even have the hatcher turned on to heat up! and I didn't have a brooder bin inside, either - all jobs for today and tomorrow. Luckily I had a nice clean brooder bin in the garage (I had just cleaned the others yesterday and they sat in the rain to air out last night - so they're wet.) so I brought it in and hooked up a light with some paper towel in that for the one hatched one. I figured he'd be better off in the brooder to warm up since the hatcher might take longer to warm itself.

Then I get the hatcher turned on and move the eggs into it - hoping it'll be warm by the time they start to cool down. Only ones I left in the incubator were the BRB eggs from, because I started those after these ones.

I'd better go back and check my dates, I guess, because I thought they weren't due until saturday for sure.

Oh I'm so stoop!d!!!! they are on time

I set these the 16th (bruce's birthday) I was counting from the 19th (chickenstock) so the BRB eggs are due saturday, these ones are right on time.

I'll move the brb eggs into the hatcher once the thing warms up for me. although, I'm using a bator with a built in fan, so I may just turn off the turner and remove it from their incubator and put them all back into that one (without a fan).

how did I let that one slip past me????

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

I could so wring my kid's neck right now! I went into the hatching room to feed the baby chicks, and one of their lights wasn't on. I flipped the switch and nothing, so I figured the bulb burned out. Nope, not that either, so what could it be? Maybe it's unplugged? Move the brooder, and nope, it's plugged in, I guess the light socket burned out. Then I get the bright idea to look at the main plug. That light, along with the hatching incubator and something else (can't remember what that one is) are all plugged into an extension cord, and sure enough, it's unplugged.

I just last night moved my d'uccles eggs to the hatcher, and it was at 81*!! My luck they are all dead.

He did the same thing the day of the chickenstock, he won't mess with that cord at all unless I have something in there due to hatch

 

[shelleyd2008]

So Meri, when are those chicken eggs of mine due? Should be soon, right? You'll need to watch the guineas, here, if I've left them in the turner as long as I was supposed to, they've always started hatching in the turner (3-4 days early). Last time I moved them early, and of course they hatched on time. They are supposed to take 28 days, but I've had several hatch on day 24 or 25.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Hmmm, thinking... I got those eggs from you after Chickenstock... was it monday, tuesday or wednesday?

I'll move them to the hatcher on Friday - cause I know it was at least Monday before I got them. I'll leave the guinea eggs in the turner until monday, though.

I've had quail and ducks and chickens all hatch out in the turner

they shouldn't do it but it didn't seem to hurt them.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

I think it was Tuesday? But I'm not sure. I've got some more babies that are supposed to be coming from Ideal today (shipped today, though I haven't gotten an email, do they send them?), so I'll have plenty of buddies for the little fellas

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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when I ordered my ducks I never got an email.

 

[Uncle T's Bantam's]

Hello everyone I have a question how long do i leave chick's in the brooder box,because i only have one and i just had new ones hatch and need the room.The older one's are about 4 or 5 weeks old and just about feathered all the way out.could some one let me know please

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Uncle T's Bantam's :

Hello everyone I have a question how long do i leave chick's in the brooder box,because i only have one and i just had new ones hatch and need the room.The older one's are about 4 or 5 weeks old and just about feathered all the way out.could some one let me know please

I put mine out of the house in summer at two weeks old (into a warm coop - so if you don't have a warmer than average coop, this time of year, I'd use a heat lamp for them at night when it gets colder - just so they have the option of going under it, not to heat the whole coop). The "brooder coop" is a pretty solid building - much more so than the adult coops - those have air cracks in the walls, much more ventilation etc... than the brooder coop does.

Even in winter I rarely leave mine inside past 6 weeks old - simply because by then I can't stand having them in the house anymore

meri​

 

[CA-reds]

Here is some more photos of the barred rock (???)
what do you think it is barred rock cockrell or pullet??