Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[debilorrah]

Mine wont be in my noon!!! I am going to a poultry show at the fairgrounds and meeting Noseychickens there. She is the one donating the ducks eggs to my flock rebuilding. It will probably be around 5 pm here. Now I have an issue. I have one brooder. My chicks are in it - they just hatched Monday. Ken is gonna have to build a new brooder!!!!

 

[luvanimals2]

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Is it the Poultry Show in Victorville? I was thinking about going too but that is this week right? We are setting eggs on the 11th.???????

You had me do a double take.

Nancy

 

[minihorse927]

You need a brooder this size! Only cost me about $50 for materials. Will hold about 10 1/3rd of the way grown silkie chicks per bin. Had up to 200 day olds in the whole brooder before when I was keeping some for someone else till they fixed the floor in their much larger brooder

 

[Mahonri]

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Wish I had room for a brooder box like that!

 

[easttxchick]

For those of us setting bantams-should we set at noon on the 14th(our local time?).

 

[HeatherB]

Good lord, you guys are busy! I wasn't keeping up, so I just went through and read.. if we still need pictures, I'll do some digging and find something. And you can bet our first chick will come out of there, other pips or not.. we'll do something to help keep the humidity. It'll be in the recliner with me and a heating pad.

I'm really glad to be doing this, it gave me not only an excuse to get more practice with the incubator and hopefully improve my hatches, but also REQUESTS from family members on what they want to hatch, so that I'm not the sole guilty party! Up until this summer, I was the only one in the house without a hobby of some type. Now I have my husband and daughter hooked. I feel much better now.

And I know I have homes for extras, so that doesn't hurt, either!

Now my problem is that I didn't keep track of what / how many I was ordering. Shiny stuff, you know.

When I finally sat down and wrote out a list of the orders, I realized I have way, way more eggs than I have incubator space.. I ordered another one, hope it gets here before then. And a family member will set some for me at his place. And there are still two ongoing auctions on eBay where I went OOoo those are pretty! And tossed in a bid. They end in a few days. I'm not bidding anymore, but if I somehow win, that'll be about two dozen more... He needs to just go ahead and take my Paypal privileges away.

And there are so many birds I've seen people post that I would LOVE to have, too! (Like those Icelandics and Illia's Tolbunt boys!) How do you people stay patient?

So, here's the list: (aside from those two auctions that I'm kind of hoping I lose now!)

Wheaton Marans
Araucana & Ameraucanas (I'm hoping they are true and not mixes.. but I'll take mixes

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Olive Eggers
Cochins (LF)
Frizzled EEs & Cochins (my daughter put frizzled EEs on her Christmas list!)
Golden Lakenvelders (with Silver ready to be set this weekend for Christmas Day)
Seramas (for my other half)

Most of them I only want a few birds from.. the wheatons I really, really wanted, and now I think I might even get overloaded. Took me a bit to figure it out, but I found them.

I got three POL pullets and a cockerel from breeders, two people sent/are sending me chicks, and two sets of eggs.. one set is in lockdown now and they're due to join us Sunday!

My husband is dying to see those seramas. I keep catching him looking at pictures online. If we get a good hatch rate, very good chance we'll have a pair or trio of the seramas in a little bunny hutch in the living room.

The one corner looks awful empty, and I can't imagine putting them outside..

 

[minihorse927]

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Wish I had room for a brooder box like that!

That brooder is sitting on the side porch of my house! Let me say I built it just a tad to wide and now can not get it out the door to put it in the barn for storage. Just to clean it I had to remove the legs and the top to take it outside. Now I always have a temptation to brood chicks!

 

[kathyinmo]

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OH, now that is very very nice! Thanks for sharing that with us.

I built a couple new brooders or broody pens or whatever (multi-use) pens, but I really like my old method, for when I have a huge hatch. Problem is, it was in my (attached) garage last winter. It took me 2 days to clean out that garage from all the dust and dander created over the winter. So, this winter I am using our storage garage. It is just not quite as handy to me.

 

[ksf59]

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Guess again.....

http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/1995act-2.htm

Georgia is the Poultry Capital of the World, more specifically, Gainesville.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2178/2198900628_2f01c5a1a8.jpg

georgia is the top broiler state. iowa is the top egg production state

 

[jenjscott]

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My bantams take 21 days just like my large fowl.