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buckabucka said:
I'm not sure what kind of incubator you have, but when I hatched in one of those styrofoam incubators with the wire floor I didn't cover it with anything. What were you going to cover it with?
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its th LG still air Styrofoam one. I did cover with the shelf liner but those were with quails. So I am ok then...probably don't need to with chicks ?
 
Q. T. If it's 1/4" mesh, you'll be fine. I covered mine with waffle shelf liner, then ended up covering that with paper towel. Not sure it was the right thing to do b/c it held a lot of moisture and got really nasty at the end. One of the last chicks to hatch just died tonight, I think from peritonitis. (I'm sure the nastiness in the incubator contributed to it.) The other assisted hatch, a little female is doing fine, in spite of her petite size. She seems to be a feisty thing. Because she was brought back from the brink of death, I've named her Phoenix.

Today has been quite the day. I got the 17 chicks I'd ordered: 4 Dom, 3 RCBL, 10 Pioneers. When I went to the hardware store to pick them up, they were clustered under the light... or as close as they could get to it, since they only had 2 lights for 4 bins, and they were way too high. The poor chicks were standing on their tip toes trying to get a little heat... and screaming their little hearts out. 2 of them were comatose and hypothermic. I scooped up as many as I could hold in my hands to try to warm them up while waiting for an employee to address my needs. They didn't seem to have a clue that the chicks needed a specific temperature... "They have a heat lamp..." as if a lamp hanging 3 feet above them is going to do much good. Not a thermometer in sight. So, after they dropped the lamp, I went out for coffee to cool my jets, and came back. The little dom was still comatose. So, I waffled back and forth about bringing her home... Didn't want to pay for a dead chick. In the end, they did not charge me for her. She can keep her eyes open, and can stand up, but still not eating or drinking. If she survives, she'll be Phoenix #2. The Doms are really poor representations of the breed. On a bright note, the Pioneers are looking real good. I think they'll be wonderful meat birds. And the RCBL are an absolute hoot. They have real long legs, and scoot all over the place. They are quite developed with wing feathers, and will be air-born before it will be really safe for them.

Dow Girl met me at a truck stop for an impromptu chick exchange: One of her new SLW for my EE.

I think I'm all done dealing with hardware stores. In the future, I'll be ordering direct, or hatching my own. OK, rant over!
 
Lazy Gardiner, I will talk to you about your EE chick. My other two seem to be picking on her. Maybe why she's so loud.
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lazy gardener said:
Q. T.  If it's 1/4" mesh, you'll be fine.  I covered mine with waffle shelf liner, then ended up covering that with paper towel.  Not sure it was the right thing to do b/c it held a lot of moisture and got really nasty at the end.  One of the last chicks to hatch just died tonight, I think from peritonitis. (I'm sure the nastiness in the incubator contributed to it.)  The other assisted hatch, a little female is doing fine, in spite of her petite size.  She seems to be a feisty thing.  Because she was brought back from the brink of death, I've named her Phoenix.

Today has been quite the day.  I got the 17 chicks I'd ordered:  4 Dom, 3 RCBL, 10 Pioneers.  When I went to the hardware store to pick them up, they were clustered under the light... or as close as they could get to it,  since they only had 2 lights for 4 bins, and they were way too high.  The poor chicks were standing on their tip toes trying to get a little heat... and screaming their little hearts out.  2 of them were comatose and hypothermic.  I scooped up as many as I could hold in my hands to try to warm them up while waiting for an employee to address my needs.  They didn't seem to have a clue that the chicks needed a specific temperature... "They have a heat lamp..."  as if a lamp hanging 3 feet above them is going to do much good.  Not a thermometer in sight.  So, after they dropped the lamp, I went out for coffee to cool my jets, and came back.  The little dom was still comatose.  So, I waffled back and forth about bringing her home... Didn't want to pay for a dead chick.  In the end, they did not charge me for her.  She can keep her eyes open, and can stand up, but still not eating or drinking.  If she survives, she'll be Phoenix #2.   The Doms are really poor representations of the breed. On a bright note, the Pioneers are looking real good.  I think they'll be wonderful meat birds.  And the RCBL are an absolute hoot.  They have real long legs, and scoot all over the place.  They are quite developed with wing feathers, and will be air-born before it will be really safe for them. 

Dow Girl met me at a truck stop for an impromptu chick exchange:  One of her new SLW for my EE.

I think I'm all done dealing with hardware stores.  In the future, I'll be ordering direct, or hatching my own.  OK, rant over!
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oh no!!!!! I hope they make it!!!! I wish they were educated in how to care for baby chicks.

TY for the lead on Dom. We have been chatting back and forth! Looks like next month I will have some! YAY!!!

It is the 1/4" mesh. I did use the waffle type before. So easy to clean up after as well...on the check list for the other bator once in lock down. So stressful hatching amd just waiting. ...
 
I'm supposed to have hatching eggs on the way, so I've started to save some of my own to throw in with them. I can't wait to join everyone in the hatching process! Sounds like you have your hands full, LG!
 
So...I have a duck related question. I have 5 ducks that I rescued late last year. There were three hens and two drakes. One of the drakes is a little call duck. Soooo, my big drake had been chasing my little guy around in an obvious "leave my girls alone" way. Well, the other morning I woke up and the only duck I can find is the little call duck. The three hens and big drake are gone. No signs of a struggle, no feathers, no blood, no tracks...no nothing. I'm thinking the drake took his hens to go nest elsewhere...any thoughts? If so, do they come back? They just up and disappeared in the middle of the night.
 
chickinpecker said:
So...I have a duck related question. I have 5 ducks that I rescued late last year. There were three hens and two drakes. One of the drakes is a little call duck. Soooo, my big drake had been chasing my little guy around in an obvious "leave my girls alone" way. Well, the other morning I woke up and the only duck I can find is the little call duck. The three hens and big drake are gone. No signs of a struggle, no feathers, no blood, no tracks...no nothing. I'm thinking the drake took his hens to go nest elsewhere...any thoughts? If so, do they come back? They just up and disappeared in the middle of the night.
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Does the Call Duck look like he gained about 19lbs overnight?
 
Lost the 2 sick chicks last night. Up all night with sick child... asthma attack, fever... etc. Didn't help that I have a brooder in the garage, and a sick bay brooder in the livingroom, with temps ricocheting all over the place. In my sleep deprived state, I put most of the layer chicks in the upstairs brooder to keep the little dom company after the first chick died. Totally screwed up on sanitization, and threw all the chicks in there. I'm hoping that I didn't expose them to some nasty pathogens.

Introduced all the chicks to fermented feed this morning. Apparently, it tastes better when you stand in it.

The big girls are very P****d at me. Apparently it's my fault that it's raining today. They had a good time foraging in the woods yesterday.
 

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