Oh no! I'm sorry for your loss too!
I hope you don't, either. Odd to lose them at this age. Usually if they survive the first 2 weeks, they are fine. I hope the dark fella colors out well, I'm curious to watch him. The next batch is due this Sunday. You have any recent pics of yours? I think the two of us are going to have a neat comparison of quality breeder chicks vs backyard breeder chicksTheir size looks good for being so young. On the first pic I was thinking "what's wrong, these look fine" and then I saw the over coloring with the other pics. Crazy how pervasive that comb is. I bet that dark boy will turn out nice. Don really knows his stuff. One day I'm going to pull all his Marans posts together.
I hope I don't lose any more.
I put them out in the coop brooder and I'm worried the change in flora and fauna was too much for that one. I haven't had anything die in that brooder until now so I'm hoping it just thinned out the weak one.
Lake effect boils down to more snow storms because of the surrounding lakes. I'll spare you the jargon of cold air masses moving along warmer lake water and vapor collection yadda yadda yadda... surfice to say "more snow" lol Higher occurances of white out conditions especially closer to lake regions. No kidding on the red tape.....which politician was it that wanted to throw a methane emmissions tax on farmers for cow gas? He was probably from NY at one time....lol
If it's still air, generally 101-102 is where you get your best hatches, but that is with the temp taken near the top of the eggs. If it's 101-102 near the bottom, then I agree it's too high. I would definitely adjust though if you think it would help. Trial and error until you find what works.
TY, I've gone a week, soI found cage free brown eggs here at Walmrt for 3.47. I sell mine for 3.50.
Good luck!I have had a lot of family that quit cold turkey and stuck it out.
I'm glad that ended well.
We are still on the same schedule right? I set 7 SLW eggs under that broody I talked about last week. Tried to break her in cool water 3 times with no success, so I'm putting her to work.
I'm sorry WV.I lost one of my Marans yesterday in the outdoor brooder. Not sure why yet. It was a pullet of course.
The rest of them look healthy and happy so far.
Run 30/35 and check air cells to stay on target and know how to adjust.
you know thats a GREAT IDEA.... too bad these wont be sticking around that long muwahhahhahaa
Are these the babies from the first marans hatch?Hate to hear that about the pullet. I always liked the mushroom hunting better than licking the stamps. The hills on the roller coaster weren't quite as severe...Ok, here's a few pics to make you feel better about your birds.
4 cockerels, three pullets. Three in front are all cockerels, overly colored one on the back row is as well. The one in the center that is very dark came from one of the older Davis hens. Keeping an eye on that one. He started with the more penguin look, and is staying black so far. Curious to see how his color turns out, but looks like the same comb fault will carry
The ones that are almost totally black were penguin chicks. The overly colored and mossy ones were the very dark chicks. Exactly what Don said would happen with the dark chicks
This picture is blurry, but I postd it to show the extreme mossiness , overly colored breast, and shafting. Same comb fault as well
Feet feathers are very nice, but color not looking so good. Again, the black cockerel in this pic could be interesting
Another blurry pic, but shows the extreme shafting on the breast I have a great trade for you in the spring
Yes, post pics!! Curious to see them, since SC talks about them so much!
