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[lonnyandrinda]

I looked it up and polish only have 4 toes so that is my bet.

X2 that one looks like a polish... no idea on the other chick though!

 

[RnRRidgerunner]

Boy am I a newbie! I just figured out how to reply.

• muesky

That is a really neat design for a brooder.
I like the waterer's and the feeders as well. Are the feeders made out of 2 inch pvc and how long? I am definitely gonna copy your watering jars with nipples (with your permission of course).

I was just thinking about using nipples, but was wondering how to do it in a small environment. Your idea is great. I have some peanut butter plastic empties that will work I think. I'll go by Tractor suppl;y and get a couple of nipples tomorrow. My girls like to scratch their pine chips (and their poo) into the generic waterer. LOL

Great post, Thanks again.

 

[Kassaundra]

A few pics of the new chicks. These aren't very good and they aren't all of them. I will get better pics tomorrow when I am less tired and have a helper to corral them, also when I know who makes it out of icu.

 

[RnRRidgerunner]

This is the front view of the brooder. The two pipes are for feed. Combined they hold almost two gallons of feed.

This is the inside view. In the corners are the waterers. I have plastic hardware cloth screwed into two side panels I cut out and into the top for ventilation.

The waterers are plastic mayonnaise jars with a water nipple mounted in the lid and wire wrapped around the middle made into a hook to hang in the brooder.

This is the inside front view of the feeders. The bases are plastic containers I get 3 for a $1 at dollar tree. I cut the PVC so the food will flow out and there are small holes so the chicks can get their heads in to get food but not get inside the feeders. works great. There is a third whole cut in the middle to add an additional feeder or waterer if needed.

Everything is plastic or metal so it is easy to sanitize. Adding the new waterers will hopefully keep the bedding cleaner longer because it will not be getting as wet. The main goal in building my brooders is to make them easy to keep clean, with feeding and waterering as easy as possible. Over the years my brooder design has evolved and I am always looking for ways to make them even more efficient. If anyone is interested in building one of these let me know and I will give you instructions. I also build these to sell.

OH! I understand now, that is how you do a quote or reply to a specific entry. Thanks again for your great post. lol

jus learning

 

[RnRRidgerunner]

Cute Chicks!! How did they breed a "naked neck"? no offense sorta buzzard looking. lol

 

[Kassaundra]

Cute Chicks!! How did they breed a "naked neck"? no offense sorta buzzard looking. lol

No offense taken, they are not for everyone, or so people tell me. I think they are the bomb, so pretty.

A NN is a breed like any other breed. There are lots of crosses, since it is easy to cross and keep the nakedness of the chicken. Mine are crosses. I call them Seussers, b/c I wanted chickens that would fit in any Dr Seuss book. True NN bred to SOP have yellow legs, which I dislike, I do have a few birds w/ the yellow legs, but not for long. Mine also differ from standard in the skin color, feather color / pattern, and top knots.

 

[artsyrobin]

FABulous day with AHmazing people! Thank you Coral for hosting a great clinic and thank you Kass for being a great mentor!

Now, you chicken geniuses, I stopped at Atwoods the other day, and in spite of the fact that I don't need any more chicks, guess what I did, anyway. And I have no idea what they are. I just had to have these specific two as soon as I saw them, and that's all there was to that. So... help me figure out what they are?

This one... she was wearing her supercute hat!



And this one... who could resist such a beautiful blue girl with pretty yellow highlights??? And here I swore I would never knowingly buy a bantam.



And just because... look what I came home to! I just knew the bator had ruined the eggs again, but I have two half-EE/half-Buttercups! Good heavens, but those are going to be beautiful birds.

Does the blue have feathered feet? am thinking duccle.... this was my Nimi as a baby







glad to hear the caponizing went well, i may try to get the nerve to go to the next one

 

[mjgigax]

Define "need"

 

[Kyzmette]

Quote:
I don't think they're feathered, but I'll check again when I get home. And Robin... you and I share a certain trait, so don't feel bad if you don't want to caponize. You may be able to, but I couldn't. I just can't bring myself to cause pain to another creature without a dire emergency-based *need*. I will gladly step back and admire the strength of others who can caponize, but I won't be doing it. It's like processing... I know it has to be done, but until the Armageddon is upon us and it's that bird or me, I will feed them, house them, and drive them off to camp where somebody else can do the part that I can't do.

 

[greenbeetle]

Quote: I agree with you I don't think I could make myself do something that causes pain, it might be different if they where put under anesthesia (sp) but they have to indure the pain of someone cutting them while wide awake, couldn't imagine someone doing that to me with out any pain killer. Kudos to those who can do it, just not me is all.