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[DBLakeChickens]

Boskelli & Sweatpea We are right outside of Penn Yan in Benton!

 

[Sweetpea3829]

Boskelli & Sweatpea We are right outside of Penn Yan in Benton!

LOL, that's funny because so are we! (We just always call our location Penn Yan, because that's the mailing address).

 

[melbu23]

So given the climate we are in, at what age do you move your little ones out of the brooder and outside. I am thinking around 4 or 5 weeks but really I'd would like sooner rather than later =). These guys have some smelly pooho let me tell you =). right now they are approximately 1.5 weeks old

 

[Lynzi777]

So given the climate we are in, at what age do you move your little ones out of the brooder and outside. I am thinking around 4 or 5 weeks but really I'd would like sooner rather than later =). These guys have some smelly pooho let me tell you =). right now they are approximately 1.5 weeks old

Seeing as how it's warmer out now, I ship mine right out the door as soon as they're almost fully feathered if there are 3 or more of them so they can huddle together to keep each other warm. I have a brooder box that I keep outside with a run attached that I keep for separating birds or growing out chicks/ducklings. It does not have a heat lamp in it so that's where they go when the warmer months come.

 

[Cass]

Seeing as how it's warmer out now, I ship mine right out the door as soon as they're almost fully feathered if there are 3 or more of them so they can huddle together to keep each other warm. I have a brooder box that I keep outside with a run attached that I keep for separating birds or growing out chicks/ducklings. It does not have a heat lamp in it so that's where they go when the warmer months come.

I stick mine outside in a draft free coop, without heat, when they are 4 - 5 weeks old. 4 if they have back feathers by then, 5 if they are feathering slowly. However this is only after ALL chance of frost in my area has passed. (Meaning after Memorial Day) I once held off putting chicks outside until they were 6 weeks old (and fully fully feathered and as big as my smallest laying hen) in October....cuz it was cold and they would have been unable to get up on the roost with the big birds until they were that big.

I do think that it can also depend on how many chicks we are talking about. If there are only a few (less than 6) I wait longer. When I had 14 in the house, they went out a little younger (exactly 4 weeks to the minute of hatching...LOL) Because I thought they would keep each other warm at night. They did. However one died of a crush injury. (the smallest one, of course)

 

[JLaw]

I just saw on Nature Berry's website they have polish....I'm tempted...

I almost bought a buff laced polish from them last year but decided not to. Now I'm thinking of those over silkies. I don't like how dirty these silkies seem to get with feathered feet and had to clean vent area off some full grown silkies because of all the fluff. Need to find a clean legged bantam good for kids to show. For next year.

 

[Sally8]

Wow! Look at all the chicken people around me! I thought I was alone for a long time! Hahaha, I'm about half hour away from Corning ny.

Where abouts from Corning? We are in Penn Yan! My husband works in Elmira and, in fact, delivers quite often in Corning (though that's not his regular route).

Hey, and welcome! I thought I was alone too, until last month!

Sending hellos from the northern Keuka Lake area

I can't tell you how excited I am to learn that there are so many near me. (Corning area) Mostly, I thought everyone was east of me. Welcome!!!!

I have a question for all of you concerning humidity in incubators. I set 43 eggs in my Little Giant incubator knowing that after I candled them at 10 days, I would be pulling some out. And I did. 15 came out due to infertility. The next 11 days went uneventful, temps stayed just perfect. I dry hatch but I threw in a hygrometer (I even calibrated it first) I've never knew how high humidity will get but that I do know it rises as they hatch. They started hatching at day 21 and the humidity that normally had stayed around 25 - 28% shot up to 78%. By the end of the 22nd day, I had 14 chicks. I left the remainder in until day 26 and unplugged. I opened each and every egg only to find what I think was they drowned. I have had smaller hatches before with 100% hatch rates. I'm just sick over it all. The ones that lived are healthy but were very wet when they were born. How do you all deal with high humidity? Or wasn't that the problem? My temp was so steady all through out. These eggs were mine so it's not like I have tons of money invested. I am going to try again with 6 or 8 eggs and see how I make out. What do you think? (Please, not the incubator. I've used it for years and have great luck for what I want to do. 100% hatches are not common but I usually have 90% or better, unless the grandkids help by adjusting the temp knob

.) Thank you. sue

 

[Gramma Chick]

Sending hellos from the northern Keuka Lake area

We have just started with chickens and have two sets of chicks that are about 7 weeks apart in age, with the older 6 being 10 weeks old. In total, 13 chickens... 2 Barnevelders, 2 Brabanters: Cream & Gold, 2 Brahmas: Light and Buff, 2 Light D'Uccle Bantams, 1 D'Anvers Blue Quail Bantam, 2 Easter Eggers, 1 Plymouth Barred Rock and 1 Welsummer. We got all our chicks from Nature Berry Farm, and we would recommend them to ANYONE

Would love to talk to other chicken people in my area

Welcome ..

 

[Gramma Chick]

So the one broody I was counting on is a PITA. She is broody but she keeps nest hoping. I stuck 8 eggs under her and she sat on them for a day or two and then moved over to another nest for a day or two and now moved back to the original one. It makes me want to scream. I have 5 broodies but I can't decide which one I should put eggs under. Two of them I wouldn't trust to be good mom's, they are just not high enough on the pecking order and the one failed miserably last year, one keeps nest hoping, another one doesn't seem serious yet, and the 5th one camps out under the front porch so I can't put eggs under her and I'm pretty sure she's been sitting for more than 21 days and nothing has happened (I just don't think she gets any rooster attention in order to have fertile eggs). I'm so frustrated...

Be Patient ...Broodys seem to be out of their mind .
My Broody keeps switching too .. So this is what I did .
If she moves I put her back .I have also been rolling the eggs a little as I havent seen her do that at all
Remove the OTHER eggs from other nesting boxes as soon as possible I think it confuses them .
Monkey went out of the box today ...went back in the hen house ...
didnt see any eggs ....and didnt know what she was doing / going ..She just zoned out ..
I gave her a little push down where her eggs were ...She saw them ...she was oh yeah that is what I was looking for ..

 

[Gramma Chick]

Do you ship eggs??

Are you talking to country boy ? please click quote LOL

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I think I drove past your house on the way to and from Sues ? she said you lived there somewhere ..
We came from 481 thru jamesville