Maine

[quailtrail]

@lazy gardener I have 2 LG still air. Purchased auto Turner this time around, 2 thermometer and one for humidity for both. Told still air 101-102 on top of eggs...one spike otherwise consistent when home...maybe increased at some point of day. Humidity 30-40% until lockdown then increased to 60%. I am done with these and will make one myself .

 

[CoopChick719]

That's a happy "surprise". I love our cochin chick. She's black. I wish our other (a blue) had survived. I think she would have been a beaut.

She's a cutie!!

It's after 8:00, and the chicks are all in a panic, plastered against the front of their little tractor, screaming: "Help me Momma!" I put a nice layer of fresh shavings at the back of the tractor. A few have been back there to check it out, but then they come to the front to scream with the others. No doubt they'll spend the night huddled on the cold ground at the front of the tractor. Funny thing is, it's the same tractor that they've been in since I started them, but now they're petrified because it's been moved.

Poor babies! They'll figure it out!

So nothing from last hatch

2nd hatch due tomorrow. ..candled and looked good on quite a bit. Hopefully something hatches...then the dominique batch...I give up...I did everything that was suggested and still nada...granted 90% were shipped eggs...

Sorry about the hatch, QT

Hard to wait all that time!!


I wish the chicks were out of the garage!! I was informed tonight that "they stink!" I said, "Really? I hadn't noticed!"

I'm a bit of a smart @ss. I have to clean out the coop before I can even think about putting them in there. I want to throw litter into pen but need to rotate pen litter to uncovered pen...just me being me! Plus I have to figure out how to section off coop without blocking tube feeders & nesting boxes for the big girls. Unfortunately, DH is working his side job every night this week until dark by then he's too tired to do much beyond eat dinner & fall asleep in the chair.

So I put an addition on the brooder in the garage. At least it will give them room to spread out and someplace for me to corral them while I clean out the other section. I still have that little meaty who can't stand up. He is still eating & drinking on his own. In fact he's drinking quite well. I mixed a little Gatorade in with his water yesterday. He sucked it right down. I have been giving him Save A Chick. Funny when I gave him plain water the other day, he looked at it like, "I'm supposed to drink that? It doesn't have any color!" I couldn't attach his heat lamp anywhere that wouldn't overheat him so it's sitting in a clay pot chicken cooker I got at a lawn sale but never used. The heat radiates out & down from it. He's warm but not overmuch. DH looked at it & said, "that's quite a setup ya got out there!" Sometimes I think he looks at me like I'm nuts but after I explain the method to my madness, he looks amazed.

 

[buckabucka]

Quailtrail, I think it must be your incubator. I know shipped eggs are a crap-shoot, but if nothing is hatching I'd be suspicious of that machine.

 

[quailtrail]

@CoopChick719 I am the same way ... "really I didn't notice" lol!!! Kiddos for your creativity! !

@buckabucka That's what I am going with too! Very disappointing to have had 3 hatches and only 2 hatched. Fingers crossed for the ones that are in lockdown now.

 

[lazy gardener]

I'm not at all pleased with this weather today. I know it's a waste of time to complain, and I should be thankful that it's not snowing, and that it's above freezing! But I'd sure like some warm weather for my babies. I don't have a fool proof system for getting them from their secure little tractor to the big chicken wire tractor (yet). So it's a work in progress getting them trained to go from point A to point B. This morning, they made the transition well without any mishaps. It helps that they were hungry, and I put their FF dish in the big tractor.

 

[MustardTiger]

29 chicks! not all of them are mine to keep but here is what I will be keeping:
buff orps
silver laced wyandottes
silver gray dorkings
welsummers
the buff cochin and one dark cornish
pearl white leghorns

 

[sparrowsnest]

So, I bought 8 Black Austrolorps from the Tractor Supply in Presque Isle. We've had them a little over 4 weeks, and "Tiny" is starting to suspiciously look like a Barred Rock.....I love a good mystery! I just hope 'she' is actually a 'she'!

 

[victoriagoodrch]

I love our cochin chick. She's black.

oh my gosh she's so cute!! her colourings are to die for

 

[CoopChick719]

"Let's all huddle around the meatbirds for warmth!"




New addition to the brooder until I can get coop cleaned out & sectioned off.

 

[chickengirl987]

My ducklings came today from California and all survived!