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[dave517]

Anyone want to trade, I have a bantam feather foot too 3 weeks. Looking for a hen or 2.

 

[PhoredaBurds]

Anyone want to trade, I have a bantam feather foot too 3 weeks. Looking for a hen or 2.

I'll trade you 5 LF cockerels for him.

 

[rancher hicks]

I was a little disappointed today stopping at Tractor Supply. They had had a great gamebird starter, 30% protein and medicated, which was perfect for my peafowl and the keets and poults were doing well on it too. I just ran out and went to get more and it was all gone. I was disappointed, but I decided I'd just make due with regular gamebird starter. Nope, they're out of that too! So I had to get some meatbird starter that I'd never seen before, not medicated and only 22% protein. I'll only be using that until I can get to the other Tractor Supply to pick up some real gamebird starter.

Any advice on feeding Brooding hens and their chicks. I expect to have a few. Right now I have two hens separated. There are five yet to be separated that will have chicks, I'm just waiting to get as many eggs hatched as I can.

Everyone:

Any words on hens and unhatched eggs. Do you wait til the hen breaks and gets off the nest and toss the unhatched eggs. I've been moving eggs from the separated hens to those who are still sitting. Too I've been moving hatched chicks to those who are brooding chicks. Though I think a three day time period might be to long to add new day olds with the others.

So far twelve chicks.

 

[Pyxis]

Any advice on feeding Brooding hens and their chicks. I expect to have a few. Right now I have two hens separated. There are five yet to be separated that will have chicks, I'm just waiting to get as many eggs hatched as I can. 

Everyone:

Any words on hens and unhatched eggs. Do you wait til the hen breaks and gets off the nest and toss the unhatched eggs. I've been moving eggs from the separated hens to those who are still sitting. Too I've been moving hatched chicks to those who are brooding chicks. Though I think a three day time period might be to long to add new day olds with the others. 

So far twelve chicks.  

There are a few ways I tend to do it. The first is just keeping the hen and her chicks separate from the flock and feeding them chick feed. Since the hen isn't laying she doesn't need the calcium in layer feed and the extra protein helps them recover from the ordeal of being broody so it works out well.

The second way is to put the whole flock on something like flock raiser or chick feed and just offer oyster shell free choice on the side for calcium. This way is probably the least labor intensive, because you don't have to separate out the hen and chicks and you don't have extra feeders and waterers to keep up with, but it's the most expensive way.

And then there's the middle of the road way. Again you don't have to separate the hen and chicks out. You put the layer feed in hanging feeders and hang them too high for the chicks to reach. Then you put chick feed out in an area that the adult birds can't get to but the chicks can. Someone posted a really good picture of a way to exclude the adult birds from the chick feeder that I wish I could find, but it was pretty much a low to the ground slatted wood structure where the chicks could slip under it to get to the feeder but the adults couldn't. Something like that works, or put it behind welded wire that the chicks will easily slip through but the adults of course can't.

 

[Gramma Chick]

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[rancher hicks]

Happy 4lh. Hope everyone has a good day.

Do you know which president was born on the fourth of July?

Do you know where we get the term "Dude" from?

Finally I could not believe the number of people on here at this hour and only one of them do I know. Pyxis, it's YOU! Aren't you lucky?

 

[Pyxis]

Happy 4lh. Hope everyone has a good day. 

Do you know which president was born on the fourth of July? 

Do you know where we get the term "Dude" from?  

Finally I could not believe the number of people on here at this hour and only one of them do I know. Pyxis, it's YOU!  Aren't you lucky?  

Lol! This is very early for me, my rabbit woke me up and now I can't fall back asleep.

 

[dave517]

Happy Independence day. I'm still looking to trade or give my bantam feather footed rooster if anyone is interested.

 

[Pyxis]

Happy Independence day. I'm still looking to trade or give my bantam feather footed rooster if anyone is interested.

You might get more interest if you post the breed. There are couple people here who breed some breeds of feather legged bantams and might be interested in new blood for their flock.

 

[tao chick]

So sadly I had 33 in total not make it. The remaining 8 are doing good. They have a 1 week old in with them to show them the ropes. The 1 week old is snuggling up with the day olds.

Sorry to hear about the rough hatch. You still have another incubator going, right?