Silkie thread!

[peepblessed]

Colie <3 :

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Here's the link (I believe) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Red-Incubator-Chicken-Quail-Waterfowl-Reptile-Eggs-/160594338190?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25642b218e
We had power outage on the last two hatches, so my husband bought an inverter from Harbor Freight and hooked up to our electric cart. Work great!

Yeppers that's on of the incubators I was looking at. I think I like the upright ones better but you could really see all the eggs pretty easy with that style!​

If you go to the persons feedback you can contact the buyer and ask questions.

 

[Colie <3]

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Not a stupid question, it's completely normal to be wondering if there is some trick to sexing those little buggers early. Sorry to say but there really isn't! At 9 days old you probably aren't going to be able to tell by a size difference but it's fun to guess! Sometimes I notice at 6-10 weeks the boys are the bigger ones. Often I pick up on the personality type I'd deem roo-ish before I'd be able to pick by looks. Really though I've been fooled more than once and I'm sure everyone else can probably agree! If you want you can post a couple pictures of your 8 week old and we can guess. Get a good one of it's crest from the side and a dead on front head shot will help the most. A full body side profile helps too...Still pretty early though...

 

[Colie <3]

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This sounds really dumb so excuse me but won't the plastic melt? lol I'm a worry wart I'm sure the light bulbs are far enough away from the plastic that it's not gonna melt but I'm just envisioning a big plastic tub on fire pumping out black smoke everywhere! Probably only at my house would something like that happen lol I have the worst luck!

It will only melt it if you install bulbs close to the plastic.But I use the new swivel bulbs they make nowadays. you can use any wattage you wnt but you will have to adjust your thermostat accodingly.

Ok swivel bulbs?? lol

 

[peepblessed]

Colie <3 :

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This sounds really dumb so excuse me but won't the plastic melt? lol I'm a worry wart I'm sure the light bulbs are far enough away from the plastic that it's not gonna melt but I'm just envisioning a big plastic tub on fire pumping out black smoke everywhere! Probably only at my house would something like that happen lol I have the worst luck!

I saw one almost identical to this but it was all clear plastic! I loved it!! Such great visability. The pictures showed the chicks hatching.

 

[countrygirl911]

Colie <3 :

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Not a stupid question, it's completely normal to be wondering if there is some trick to sexing those little buggers early. Sorry to say but there really isn't! At 9 days old you probably aren't going to be able to tell by a size difference but it's fun to guess! Sometimes I notice at 6-10 weeks the boys are the bigger ones. Often I pick up on the personality type I'd deem roo-ish before I'd be able to pick by looks. Really though I've been fooled more than once and I'm sure everyone else can probably agree! If you want you can post a couple pictures of your 8 week old and we can guess. Get a good one of it's crest from the side and a dead on front head shot will help the most. A full body side profile helps too...Still pretty early though...

ty i will try to get a picture of the one little 8 week old left after the attack the 12 week old that survived i know is a boy he has crowed but he looks so sad and stressed​

 

[Colie <3]

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Yeah I apparently made the TX thing up in my big ol' blonde head haha they are from OK

 

[peepblessed]

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I raised 7 hatchery silkie chicks this summer that are now 6 months old. They were two weeks old when I got them. Three were obviously bigger and they turned out to be roos. One was tiny and it turned out to be a roo. Two of them I still don't know. One I'm pretty sure is a pullet!

 

[Floridachicken1958]

Colie: Thy are so easy to build.They look like thy would be really hard to build, But thats not true.When I built mine I thought it was gonna take for ever but as I started the build it got eaiser & eaiser Now I'm building bigger & better.

 

[Colie <3]

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Not a stupid question, it's completely normal to be wondering if there is some trick to sexing those little buggers early. Sorry to say but there really isn't! At 9 days old you probably aren't going to be able to tell by a size difference but it's fun to guess! Sometimes I notice at 6-10 weeks the boys are the bigger ones. Often I pick up on the personality type I'd deem roo-ish before I'd be able to pick by looks. Really though I've been fooled more than once and I'm sure everyone else can probably agree! If you want you can post a couple pictures of your 8 week old and we can guess. Get a good one of it's crest from the side and a dead on front head shot will help the most. A full body side profile helps too...Still pretty early though...

ty i will try to get a picture of the one little 8 week old left after the attack the 12 week old that survived i know is a boy he has crowed but he looks so sad and stressed

He might be stressed poor little guy if he survived a coon attack and he's adjusting to not having all his buddies around. Did you lose a lot?

 

[countrygirl911]

here is a few pictures of my 12 week old that survived the coon attack he looks so sad and stressed wish i could make him feel better

here is my 8 week old little silkie that also survived the attack he or she is loosing alot of its feathers i just hope it is molting and is not sick