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TherryChicken said:
Quote: Yes, but you have the below Legbar eggs! I will add some someday...... You are close if you ever need hatching eggs maybe we could trade
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TherryChicken said:

love these blue eggs
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this is my baby's first night with out their heat lamp (after today i don't think they will need it) I'm so nervous the youngest in the brooder are only 5 weeks!! i know I'm being overprotective and i have gotten the lamp off younger chicks at my grams place weeks earyer but my grams chicks had mama hens my baby's just have each other it truly will be a sleepless night.
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winteree said:
good god i thought the heat was all in my head i guess i'm not as much of a wuss as i thought i was
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I hadn't been out since late morning, when I went back outside around 4 it was like walking into an oven...It was a heavy heat, no humidity...usually I would say dry heat doesn't seem to be as brutal but that was NOT the case today. I miss humidity...
 
winteree said:
this is my baby's first night with out their heat lamp (after today i don't think they will need it) I'm so nervous the youngest in the brooder are only 5 weeks!! i know I'm being overprotective and i have gotten the lamp off younger chicks at my grams place weeks earyer but my grams chicks had mama hens my baby's just have each other it truly will be a sleepless night.
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You're going to think this is crazy but I take our chicks off of heat by one week. The last group were 5 days old. 2 days to get to me, 2 days/nights on heat, the last day there was no heat, heat that night, 2 days outside during the day, in at night, again no heat, by a week they stayed outside. Its been pretty warm here, when they started moving outside we were starting to hit mid 90's. There are about 25 though, so they have strength in numbers

Even the earlier group of chicks we had this year, February/March were off of heat by a week but were still inside, with our house being around 68*. I stress every single time we try it, thinking I'm making a huge mistake. I've found from personal experience this year, compared to last, that when I don't 'baby' the chicks (not saying you are, but we did, the first year we had them inside until 6-7 weeks...it was horrible...) they seem so much healthier, happier, feather in faster, grow faster. I think our smallest group was 5 and they had maybe an extra night they were brought inside.

Now, its not full proof...the itty bitty fluffy butts keep seeming to find ways out of our 'secure' grow out pen until they are about 2 weeks old. They keep finding the 'one place' we don't have secure. Each group seems to have a new Houdini...but as far as temp go, they do great!

Hopefully this helps calm your nerves! Of course we are so stinkin' dry here, wet and cold would be another story, one we don't usually have to worry about...
 
SlipsWife said:
You're going to think this is crazy but I take our chicks off of heat by one week. The last group were 5 days old. 2 days to get to me, 2 days/nights on heat, the last day there was no heat, heat that night, 2 days outside during the day, in at night, again no heat, by a week they stayed outside. Its been pretty warm here, when they started moving outside we were starting to hit mid 90's. There are about 25 though, so they have strength in numbers

Even the earlier group of chicks we had this year, February/March were off of heat by a week but were still inside, with our house being around 68*. I stress every single time we try it, thinking I'm making a huge mistake. I've found from personal experience this year, compared to last, that when I don't 'baby' the chicks (not saying you are, but we did, the first year we had them inside until 6-7 weeks...it was horrible...) they seem so much healthier, happier, feather in faster, grow faster. I think our smallest group was 5 and they had maybe an extra night they were brought inside.

Now, its not full proof...the itty bitty fluffy butts keep seeming to find ways out of our 'secure' grow out pen until they are about 2 weeks old. They keep finding the 'one place' we don't have secure. Each group seems to have a new Houdini...but as far as temp go, they do great!

Hopefully this helps calm your nerves! Of course we are so stinkin' dry here, wet and cold would be another story, one we don't usually have to worry about...
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oh i only brood inside for the first week to check for illness. the oldest in the brooder have been outside since 8 days old and the 5 week old since day 4 but it still scares me we had 3 false springs so we will see how many peaches we get this year
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and i only have 11 chicks
 
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