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

[Hens and Roos]

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Thank you Chooks for the suggestions.
I agree with you completely about letting the chicks choose whether to hang out in the warmer or cooler part of the brooder. I was not clear about my lighting I guess. I don't have both lights on at the same time....I just meant I had one red light and one regular light on at different times due to trying to get it right. I put the light at one end of the brooder so they can choose the temp they like. We started out with the red heat lamp that I normally use for the brooder OUTSIDE, but since these guys are inside in a spare bedroom, it was too warm! The whole room heated up too much, plus it was extremely warm directly under the light, and the whole brooder was quite warm. I do like them to be able to have a choice of temps, so that's why I switched to a regular white lightbulb.

Jen: Love the suggestions about the shiny objects! I will start tossing coins in there (do I make a wish first? lol) for their entertainment.

Are you using heat lamps or regular light bulbs? We use regular red light bulbs because we have the brooder in the house, right now we have a 75 watt red but also have on hand a 25 watt red to switch out to when the chicks get a bit more feathering on them. We have found that the red has more of a calming effect on the chicks vs using a white light- that seemed to be to intense for ours. Good luck.

 

[ChooksChick]

All right, everyone. I have to run out to the farm and thaw out everyone again. Hopefully some girls have decided to lay, because I'm going to be delaying some orders I'd easily have made last week, if they don't.

I can't say I'd be happy to lay in this windy frigid crud out there.

I'm going to take a quick look in the R-Com before I go. So far, I got a duck, 2 FBCM, 4 banty Cochins, and a near-hatch Orp, dunno the color. I'll likely get the rest done by dark tonight.

Back soon!

 

[CorgiHouse]

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I wasn't sure about that question.......wondered if it meant the above explanation, or if it meant TOTAL after done hatching. For instance: If you set 10, locked down with 8 and of those, 6 hatched and 2 died. Would that mean your total died/discarded number is 2 (discarded pre-lockdown) or 4 (total discarded once hatching done)?

 

[kathyinmo]

Steve, you did really good with your hatch! I mean, my gosh, with all the power problems and everything, you still had 15 of 17 hatch. That's amazing! Congratulations!

 

[dsqard]

This is chick #1 who has so far earned the nickname "little bugger" because that is all he/she is doing to chick #2

This is chick #2 who seems to be a little bigger than #1 but is sweeter. Course he/she is still working on getting better coordinated and may wind up as "little bugger" as well.
Third zip is about 3/4 of the way around but has stopped. I can see it breathing and trying to move at times but it looks like it is upside down? I don't mean that it is ziping on the bottom but it seems like the beak is upside down the way it is pointing. Sometimes it looks like it is kinda panting. Kinda worried about it but I have been good so far and have kept the bator top on.

 

[CorgiHouse]

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Laree - wow!!! You are FAST and good at this. Thank you!

I have a question though......aren't we supposed to figure our hatch % from the number set? It appears that it is figuring from the # at lockdown, not the # set. Just curious.......

Thanks again for keeping us so organized through-out this whole experience.

 

[kathyinmo]

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I wasn't sure about that question.......wondered if it meant the above explanation, or if it meant TOTAL after done hatching. For instance: If you set 10, locked down with 8 and of those, 6 hatched and 2 died. Would that mean your total died/discarded number is 2 (discarded pre-lockdown) or 4 (total discarded once hatching done)?

It still confuses me. I just know number set, number at lockdown, number viable (hatchable), and number hatched. My mind runs on simple only, and is easily confused.

 

[MuranoFarms]

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Laree - wow!!! You are FAST and good at this. Thank you!

I have a question though......aren't we supposed to figure our hatch % from the number set? It appears that it is figuring from the # at lockdown, not the # set. Just curious.......

Thanks again for keeping us so organized through-out this whole experience.

It seems that it was done not counting the infertile/mail scrambled ones. Since they never had a chance at hatching, they were left out.
I think

 

[kathyinmo]

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Awwww, what cute pictures! Looks to me like they are saying, "Let me outa here!"

 

[ChooksChick]

I think it's very common to figure 'hatch rate' omitting the infertile/scrambled ones. If they begin to develop, they go into the rate- but if that NEVER happened (no development), the egg doesn't go into the hatch rate when figured.

OK, NOW I'm going!!!

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