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lakones said:
Seems like everyone is busy, busy, lots of hatchlings too!!!
We finished the new coop today, but I forgot to take pics, I'll have to add some later. It is a duplex of two smaller coops under one roof and we already have both sides full. The 4 campine and 1 Araucana have one side and 9 buff orphingtons have the other. I just got those today, 8 pullets and 1 roo. All of these are about 9 weeks old. It's funny how much bigger the buffs are than the campines even tho they are the same age. Come spring time I ought to have lots of eggs!!! Total now I have 14 girls and 4 boys, but I have separate coops and runs for each group. How does this chicken math work???
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Would love to see some pics of your birds and new coop when you get a chance :)
 
Cody A said:
Yes. You have definitely given me direction :) They will be staying separated into groups that's for sure. When I get to the point of needing it I plan to build a small run that the chicks can access from the brooder.

On the run extension I thought of breaking it up into thirds. Each section would be about 10'6" wide. So one section would be 1005 sqft the other two 765 sqft.
However I do it it will be built a little different than the other run. I'll use hardware cloth on the sides and for the top I'm planning to use 2"x2" 16 gauge fencing 100'x72" roll
http://www.redbrand.com/Products/SpecialtyApplication/YardGardenKennel.aspx Support the wire with the 10' lengths of top rail that is used for chain link fencing.
It should be a little cheaper and much easier this way and I don't think I have any worries with something getting in. What are your thoughts on using this wire fencing? I think the chances are slim that something as small as a mink would be around and I'm really not worried about snakes if the birds are of a decent size. There will be doors between the existing run and extension anyway if I want to close them at night.
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I think you have it figured pretty close, especially using the top rail, you can probably find it used on a buy,sell,trade site on FB, in fact i am going to put a request for some on the ones i am on, i want to extend my yard and top rail is a $ a foot, if i could pick up some used , probably get it for a quarter a foot, i think the 2x2 wire should be good on top, top rail also comes in 20' joints.I could kick my but, acouple years ago, i was helping my son in law move his mother and there was about a 1000' of top rail being left behind, i could have got it free but it was hot and i just didn't bother with it. Good luck on your construction, you will do fine.
 
lakones said:
Seems like everyone is busy, busy, lots of hatchlings too!!!
We finished the new coop today, but I forgot to take pics, I'll have to add some later. It is a duplex of two smaller coops under one roof and we already have both sides full. The 4 campine and 1 Araucana have one side and 9 buff orphingtons have the other. I just got those today, 8 pullets and 1 roo. All of these are about 9 weeks old. It's funny how much bigger the buffs are than the campines even tho they are the same age. Come spring time I ought to have lots of eggs!!! Total now I have 14 girls and 4 boys, but I have separate coops and runs for each group. How does this chicken math work???
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Sounds like you have figured the math out. Pam
 
Cody A said:
Terri, sounds like you have some nice, healthy chicks. Cool that they can can poop $$ :)
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LOL I wish!
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I got a very visual lesson last night.

A couple of days ago I was told on the HAL thread to rotate the position of my hatching eggs around the incubator to make up for the fact that it is a still air incubator and may have cooler or warmer spots. I have a Turner, but no fan. So I was doing that. I had moved then once.

Last night I thought I would peek at one or 2 eggs and see if we could see and pink of even more. And in a couple from the edge (that had been on the outside row, just different sides because of how I had moved them) we saw a short blood vein, and appeared more pink. Exciting. Then I looked at one from the center of the incubator. It had a full twice the amount of development as the others from the edge.

Nice visual lesson and now I was an incubator fan! Lol!!!
 
LemonMeringue said:
I got a very visual lesson last night.

A couple of days ago I was told on the HAL thread to rotate the position of my hatching eggs around the incubator to make up for the fact that it is a still air incubator and may have cooler or warmer spots. I have a Turner, but no fan. So I was doing that. I had moved then once.

Last night I thought I would peek at one or 2 eggs and see if we could see and pink of even more. And in a couple from the edge (that had been on the outside row, just different sides because of how I had moved them) we saw a short blood vein, and appeared more pink. Exciting. Then I looked at one from the center of the incubator. It had a full twice the amount of development as the others from the edge.

Nice visual lesson and now I was an incubator fan! Lol!!!
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When I was hatching peacocks, the late great Mr Burt told me in order to improve the hatch rate, even though I have an auto-turner, to turn the eggs lengthways three times a day in addition to the auto-turner rocking them side to side. He was right. I always had great hatch rates. If I had to turn by hand again, I'd do it the same way with chicken eggs.
 

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