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21hens-incharge said:
AWWWWWW!!!!! Have you named them yet.
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Some of them. The shoe picture shows Hansel (center), Gretel (right) and Sugar (left).

The three golden laced Cochins are named Ginger, Cinnamon, and Nutmeg. This is Ginger. She is my friendliest hen by far.

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The black ameraucana is named Elphaba, and the blue is named Glinda. These two worry me a bit though because they are feathering soooo much slower than the others. (Although they do of course have more feathers now than in this old photo).

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The 4 buff brahmas and 2 splash ameraucanas don’t have names yet because I can’t tell any of them apart 🙈

(Unnamed but very cute Brahma)
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CSAchook said:
Some of them. The shoe picture shows Hansel (center), Gretel (right) and Sugar (left).

The three golden laced Cochins are named Ginger, Cinnamon, and Nutmeg. This is Ginger. She is my friend

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The black ameraucana is named Elphaba, and the blue is named Glinda. These two worry me a bit though because they are feathering soooo much slower than the others. (Although they do of course have more feathers now than in this old photo).

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The 4 buff brahmas and 2 splash ameraucanas don’t have names yet because I can’t tell any of the🙈

(Unnamed but very cute Brahma)
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They are growing so fast! I think you got a beautiful assortment.
 
We worked on the run roof today. There were old posts in the run from the original run that we had to take out among a few other must do's. While we didn't get it done we made good progress. Nope it ain't traditional framing but it is sturdy. We are putting a roof on posts not optimally placed for it.
 
CapricornFarm said:
Oh no, what's happening ? Sorry for the losses.
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Same as before. I'm still working through the eggs/chicks that were started in the frankenbator. You'd think I'd have worked through my issues, but the problem is that I stagger hatch. I set a batch of eggs every week and rotate them out to a lock down incubator when they are ready to hatch. Which is really nice when things are going well, but when things go wrong, I have 2-3 more hatches I have to work through before things get completely straightened out. I have a batch of eggs that are now in my lock down incubator that are the last ones started in the frankenbator. Out of the 6 chicken and 3 guinea eggs I have in there, I have maybe 1 chick that I think may hatch.

I've been having trouble with chicks dying about a week after hatching from malnourishment. The 3/4th dead chick from earlier today died and I found one another one this evening that was just starting on the slide down. It isn't looking too good either. 2 out of 9 hatched are gone and one more on its way out (it isn't eating, so I don't hold out much hope). I think the temperature issues I had with the frankenbator caused them to have something wrong internally so they can't process food once their yolk is gone, thus why they drop dead a few days to a week later. None of the chicks that died look much bigger than they did than when they first hatched. Half of them had no wing feather growth either (their healthy hatch mates at least have 1/2" of wing feathers).

All the eggs that aren't in lock down have ONLY been in a Brinsea. My new Brinsea is ROCK SOLID with temp/humidity. I moved all the eggs in my old Brinsea over to my new one once it proved itself over a day or so and cleaned up my old one. I'll start more eggs in it on Wednesday.

Hopefully that solves my poor hatch and post hatch die-off issues. I think it should. The eggs that were only in the Brinsea before lock down before hatched PERFECTLY and all those chicks are still alive.
 

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