May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

[CindyinSD]

I remember phones on the wall lol

Not on the wall, but we still have a landline. Not much for a cell signal, though.

 

[ShrekDawg]

You’ll be there forever because you’ll go pee then stare at everything

I raced home lmao decided I’d rather go home than some nasty ass public bathroom but I’m going back out after lol just got back

 

[FortCluck]

We have 3 chicks so far from the assorted bunch. There were 21 eggs I think I pulled 2 early on.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Btw this is the frame for the PVC one. I saw some people online doing it. This one someone on BYC did it actually but I also saw some others on Pinterest that actually were like way taller and they hung the rabbit cages on them so that was neat. But you probably want something a little bigger than cages but I thought it was cool. I don’t remember exactly how they set it up though haha

 

[ShrekDawg]

Forgot the picture

 

[ShrekDawg]

Oh wait I also forgot to add I missed my exit and had to go up one then back down which is why I took longer

 

[CindyinSD]

Thank you. It will be 18 days at one in the morning for most of the eggs but three of them were added hours later so about 10 am tomorrow morning. When I candled them a couple hours ago I reduced the level to 41%. I'm afraid to make drastic changes at once so I'm trying to lower it gradually. It's just that I know I have to raise it soon for lock-down. I will get some pictures this evening. Thanks again!

You can quickly raise the humidity for lockdown by adding warm water, but if the air cells are too small, I wouldn't add water until external pips happen. You'd have to watch closely.

 

[FortCluck]

Forgot the picture

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How do you hook the metal onto it I’m assuming you got hardware cloth

 

[FortCluck]

You can quickly raise the humidity for lockdown by adding warm water, but if the air cells are too small, I wouldn't add water until external pips happen. You'd have to watch closely.

I agree with this

 

[ShrekDawg]

How do you hook the metal onto it I’m assuming you got hardware cloth

Yeah I did. The person I saw used zip ties so I will probably do that. Although they also had a support piece in the middle and I’m wondering if that might be better. but it made more sense to me to just get the longer single piece of pipe haha we’ll see. It’s 5x2. This is theirs. I’m not sure yet whether to do the tractor thing or cover the bottom.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/homemade-pvc-quail-cage.909525/