November/December "Hatch-a-Long"

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rtho88 said:
DO THESE THINGS EVER STOP POOPING!!!!!

I've cleaned out the water bowl 100 times!! Even elevated it and they still poop in it!!!

Oh well, looks like i've got 2 guys and 2 gals out of my first hatch. 7 eggs, 4 hatched and are healthy, 2 stopped growing but were very far along, and one must not have been fertilized or never got far, still looked like a "store" egg when cracked.

Got 9 more to hatch over the next few days.
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We are changing over to the chicken nipple watering system...clean water all the time. The only problem is you can't really tell how much they are drinking unless you have nipples in clear jugs or buckets you can keep track of. We are using a pipeline system so if we want to treat only one pen for extra electrolytes or vitamins, etc. there's no way to do that. In general I'm against automatic waterers for other classes of livestock for the aforementioned reasons, but with the chickens constantly putting fecal material in their drinking water we are going to try it.
 
Tomorrow at 10am starts day 18! Do I lock down then, or at the end of day 18?

My plan is to put down shelf paper, lay the eggs on their sides, block the light and fan with hardware cloth, and up the humidity to 65-70%. Am I missing anything?

I'm getting so excited! Hoping for 4 out of 7! :jumpy
 
SoManyHats said:
Tomorrow at 10am starts day 18! Do I lock down then, or at the end of day 18?

My plan is to put down shelf paper, lay the eggs on their sides, block the light and fan with hardware cloth, and up the humidity to 65-70%. Am I missing anything?

I'm getting so excited! Hoping for 4 out of 7!
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Shelf paper like for your cupboards? My understanding is they need something very rough so they don't slip/splay. Newspaper is too slick. Wire mesh in hatcher trays best (harder to clean up after) or hatcher tray liners (that pebbly really thick brown cardboard-y paper that comes in chick shipping boxes) would be best. Or paper towelling under the wire trays for easier cleanup?
 
SoManyHats said:
I second the nipple waterer! My chicks will have it from day 1, because it literally changed my chicken-keeping life with my older ones!
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Do you use a pipeline or individual bottles/buckets with nipples? Do you silicone them in? We're still working on ours...threaded into PVC with Teflon plumbing tape they are leaking like crazy so still using the founts until we get it figured out. (If there is a better thread for this I'm happy to move over.)
 
Ihilani Coffee said:
Shelf paper like for your cupboards?  My understanding is they need something very rough so they don't slip/splay.  Newspaper is too slick.  Wire mesh in hatcher trays best (harder to clean up after) or hatcher tray liners (that pebbly really thick brown cardboard-y paper that comes in chick shipping boxes) would be best.  Or paper towelling under the wire trays for easier cleanup?
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This is a foamy, textured stuff. I guess better described as shelf liner, not shelf paper. I'm not worried about clean up (I can put my bator in the dishwasher). I just don't want them having to walk around on the hardware cloth.
 

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