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I was outside working and could feel the air changing. The leaves on the yes started to turn over. I could smell the storm coming. Finished my project just as it started to drip and get windy. Sat down knowing a big storm was coming, THEN the warning comes across my weather radio.

Sometimes experience in the outdoors beats modern technology.
 
Oh yeah, that storm is just about to hit here...I should be rounding up the troops, but just now sat down... I'm not sure the turkeys have the brain power to get themselves under cover.... So I better get back out there.
 
wingstone said:
I wonder why this is happening, at first I thought, shipped eggs but even my own are not hatching.
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I've gotten wildly varying results this year. I have had 100% hatches of some types and very poor hatches of others. This week I got 5/5 from my Ameracauna pen, but 1/6 from the New Hampshire pen. They are in the same room, same feed, water, egg collection, etc. Only difference is the Ams are in a smaller pen where they are much more crowded. What's up with that?

It's not the breed, 2 weeks ago, I got 3/3 from the NH's.

It's not the incubation practices if one pen gets 100% and the next gets 16%.

I've grown used to losing a lot of chicks in lockdown, but have frequent cases of near perfect results.

Perhaps they can sense which ones you are most anxious to hatch well and deliberately foil that? No, that's not it, 4 weeks ago I had a precious batch of barred hollands and splash ameracaunas, they hatched 100%.

Color me confused -- but generally happy with the results this year.
 
Blarneyeggs said:
Oh yeah, that storm is just about to hit here...I should be rounding up the troops, but just now sat down... I'm not sure the turkeys have the brain power to get themselves under cover.... So I better get back out there.
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yep, hit here too though not too bad....its taken a year, but my adult girls and boys finally learned to go under the coop to get out of the rain.....the young ones just get wet...though I should have a nice protected area in the 'new' grow out pen.....
 
I live in Quakertown Pa. I am going to have some chicks for sale soon. first year raising chicks! [How do you do all of those cool chicken enjos sorry I spelled it wrong]
 
spotterroo said:
I live in Quakertown Pa. I am going to have some chicks for sale soon. first year raising chicks! [How do you do all of those cool chicken enjos sorry I spelled it wrong]
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Fayetteville PA is a newbie looking for the perfect coop for 7 chicks....the Bremerton Coop from Urban Chicken site has been ordered, but now delayed. Can one be made for $200-300???? Suggestions welcome. We have been all over the map checking here and most everywhere else with pics and posts. Some say 4x4 with a yard, while others say minimum 6x8.
Very confused, but anxious!?
Thanks
 
DJ Bear said:
Fayetteville PA is a newbie looking for the perfect coop for 7 chicks....the Bremerton Coop from Urban Chicken site has been ordered, but now delayed. Can one be made for $200-300???? Suggestions welcome. We have been all over the map checking here and most everywhere else with pics and posts. Some say 4x4 with a yard, while others say minimum 6x8.
Very confused, but anxious!?
Thanks
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Hi and welcome! We're chicken newbies too but ours are 10 weeks old now so I don't know when we stop calling ourselves newbies lol :) the rule of thumb is that you need 4 sq ft of coop space and 10 sq ft of run per bird so for 7 birds, you'd need a 28 sq ft coop and 70 sq ft run. But as everyone on here always says, make it bigger than you think you'll need it because chickens are addicting lol. Can't offer any other advice than that for the coop as we built/are building our own.
 

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