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TillyPeeps said:
I think Welbars are more sensitive to light. My silver welbar was a good layer until November, and hasn't back to lay yet. My Oliver eggers and legbar are laying. I plan to add more Legbars in the future since they lay more years.
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Good to know. Do you have a picture of one of your Welbar eggs? It is hard not to be sold on Legbars--but I do miss my handsome and very clever black amerucauna!
 
Lelanae said:
Good to know. Do you have a picture of one of your Welbar eggs? It is hard not to be sold on Legbars--but I do miss my handsome and very clever black amerucauna!
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I don't have a good picture of their eggs, but they are about color 4 in the following picture:
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Sometimes color will change to 3 or 5. I miss my Pennsylvinia Black from Dennis, but he doesn't have them any more. They just as pretty as ameraucana, but being sexlink.
 
TillyPeeps said:
I like heat plate. The first time I used mom heating pad method and had one chick stuck in between the pad and frame. Last year, I switch to premier 1 heating plate and was quite happy with it.
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I was searching for premier1 heat plates. That was the brand that I wanted the most but couldn't find them anywhere. I'm using rural 365 right now and the chicks are content. It came in when the older ones were already a month or so old. It only took them an hour or so to figure it out. The biggest I can find are 12" x 12" though.
 
We like heat plates for our brooder boxes, when we use them. What we do that is probably different is that we have kept numerous 'pelts' over the last few years when butchering. We have skinned a number of the adult birds, stretched the skins to dry and then use them to line the box under and behind the heat plate. This gives the chicks feathers to snuggle in to. The skins wash well and we just swap in clean ones as needed and wash the others and allow to air dry.
This may not work when dealing with large numbers of chicks but does great for our use.
 
fisherlady said:
We like heat plates for our brooder boxes, when we use them. What we do that is probably different is that we have kept numerous 'pelts' over the last few years when butchering. We have skinned a number of the adult birds, stretched the skins to dry and then use them to line the box under and behind the heat plate. This gives the chicks feathers to snuggle in to. The skins wash well and we just swap in clean ones as needed and wash the others and allow to air dry.
This may not work when dealing with large numbers of chicks but does great for our use.
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I never thought that you would need a brooder with all those broodies! :gig
 
Well, very true, :plbb the brooder box serves two purposes, both temporary.
When we get chicks from other folks, or store bought, we transport them in brooder box and keep them in it until we transplant them to waiting broodies.
We also use it as a 'recovery' or 'hosptal' box in case we get a chick having problems after going out with a broody or if after transplanting chicks a broody gets weird and rejects a chick. We just bring the chicks back in to the brooder until we switch broodies out or they settle down. It stays on and ready the first 3 days or so, by then all shuffling is done until the next round of hens gets chicks.
The only chicks we have ever actually brooder raised were meat birds.
 
dheltzel said:
A friend is looking for Bourbon Red turkeys. I hope to find some good quality poults or breeders. Anyone have nice ones or know where to get them?
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I used to have them but not really anymore. I have mostly penciled now. I only have 2 red girls left and they're 5 and 6 years old lol. I'll keep an eye out though!
 

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