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lakones said:
I am getting to build a new addition to house all my chicks, chickens and supplies! Basically I will have a 12'x24' open space to layout as I want. I need 4 pens, but may add a fifth just in case. I have 38 total chicks and chickens right now so there should be enough room for the brooders too. Gonna be fun!!!
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How exciting Lakones. That will be a nice size space to work with.
 
Tazbeaux said:
My babies are 15 days old today. They have been in my outdoor brooder pen for a couple of days now with the door to the run open, but they are too afraid to go out. Today I had to give them a nudge so that I could clean the house, and here they are for the first time on the ground. They were afraid at first but were soon doing what chickens do best, scratching and hunting for tasty morsels. After about 30 minutes they returned to the safety of the house. I guess it was too much excitement for 1 day.
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Tazbeaux, your chicks look big and well feathered for two weeks. What breed are they?
 
I candled last night for lockdown and had a handful of internal pips! :celebrate

This morning I had two external pips! :celebrate

I'm down to 52, from 61. I had a big problem with smelly eggs this time, basically one every few days. These are my own eggs from my backyard. None were older than 10 days at setting, stored in cartons on my counter out of sunlight and rotated several times a day. They had a few smudges here and there but weren't very dirty overall. I'm thinking that the shells are too thin/porous and bacteria is able to get in. So I'm going to set up a second oyster shell dispenser and try again in about a month.

Any other ideas?
 
You guys are doing so well on your babies. Mine are about 11 days old and a lot of moving and going. I need to get them out of the brooder in the storeroom and get the big 12' X 12' coop ready for them. I also have not one but two broodies going on one nest. I have to get them in there also. Gonna be busy. I have the big XW white rock separated. I think I will sell him. I have plenty of babies and still have the Blosl white rock ready to accept any extra females going available.
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That will give him 8 or so.
 
Hey guys! Hope you are all surviving the rain. Its storming here right now. My hatch finally ended today. Being the first on this incubator I only set 8 eggs, and 5 hatched. Two weren't fertilized, and one had a blood ring early on, so I consider it a huge success. Three Marans and two wyandottes. All healthy, straight legs and toes, and no issues. I jacked up the humidity to 65% on day 18 from the 30% it was at during the previous days.

I also bought a trigger for my chickens. You just drill a hole in the bottom of a bucket and drop it in, then fill with feed. They peck the trigger and feed drops out onto a tray below. I put it out today for them to figure out, and smeared some peanut butter on the trigger. One little cockerel has it figured out already. I think the rest are freeloading.
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The bantams are 2 months, and wyandottes are a month and a half, which I'm just in love with. They are going to be beautiful birds.

Here's some photos of all the goings-on.















 
Tazbeaux said:
Might as well start from the beginning then
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Here are the babies at 2 days old
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I love the color of Buckeye chicks. They look like they fell in a jar of cinnamon. When I started raising chickens last Fall I highly considered this breed and did a lot of searching and reading on them . I couldn't find any sources for purebreds at that time of the season so I gave up. Did you get yours from a hatchery or breeder?

Thanks for the pic.
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