Quick ??? about heat lamp and heat.....

[Half-a-dozen]

Thanks Tommy...that helps.

 

[Tommy]

I would love to post some pics, but they seem to be having an awful time getting the things to hatch out. It has been 2 times now that they have had a bad hatch and not been able to send them to me. They were supposed to get here today and I called and they said .... oh sorry, the hatch didn't make it again so hopefully next week we will be able to send them.

I started to cancel the order, but they must be fairly rare birds because I have not seen them for sale anywhere else so I decided to not be so hasty, and since I've been put off 2 times now they apologized and said that they would refund the shipping on them which was nice. I haven't held it against them at all. Sometimes things happen yanno.


I also seemed to have misplaced the dang usb cord to the camera.

Hopefully next week. I've got my fingers crossed and will accept any other crossed finger assistants.

 

[bangor777]

I'm intrigued by your mentioning of all the different ages you have in your brooder! I have five week olds in one brooder and two week old bantams in another brooder, their sizes are so different right now, I was going to wait until the bantams at least had some feathering. Have you had any trouble introducing new ages in?

 

[Half-a-dozen]

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No trouble at all....when they are this young I just toss the lil ones in with the older ones up to about 6/7 weeks old... past 7/8 weeks they seem to get a lil fisty and torment the lil ones so then I toss them out and put them with the hens.....

In the brooder I have..... 6 & 7 week olds, 4 week olds, 2/3 week olds and 1 week olds....
In the hen house I have The hens (1.5 years old), 12 week olds and 8/9 week olds.....
.........when I put them in the hen house (big coop) I watch them on and off closely for a few days.... I also rearrage my roosts in the coop, This helps tremendously....it breaks up and divides the "this is my spot to roost" problem so EVERYONE has to find a new spot that night. They dont fighting because there is no claim to where they go and roost. I do this whenever I toss a new bunch of younger ones in.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

Oh I wouldn't take out the 250 watt having one week olds in there. Mine have the 250 watt on them now and they are a week old and it's 65 in my house. They are doing great and have never panted over being to hot..in fact they always sleep under the lamp.