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[tntchix]

Or go to the grocery store to buy something, come out with a dozen items, only to get home and discover I forgot to get what I went for in the first place.

every time

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[chickadoodles]

Happy St. Patrick's day everyone! Cynthia I love your clover.

 

[tntchix]

Guess my broody girl wasn't all that serious.

She left the nest yesterday and roosted with the gang and never got back on today. She was off several times before that. So much for that idea.

 

[chickadoodles]

Sorry tntchix.

Does anyone have an outside set up for brooders? I have some week old chicks and some two week old poults and I need to move them outside.

I had a terrible spell last night after going in to then the chicks that I may have to give up raising them. I don't want to by I could not get any air in my lungs and collapsed and just felt as weak as a limp noodle. It really scared me and DH.
I would appreciate any ideas.

 

[perchie.girl]

Sorry tntchix.

Does anyone have an outside set up for brooders? I have some week old chicks and some two week old poults and I need to move them outside.

I had a terrible spell last night after going in to then the chicks that I may have to give up raising them. I don't want to by I could not get any air in my lungs and collapsed and just felt as weak as a limp noodle. It really scared me and DH.
I would appreciate any ideas.

I think you should go to the doctor and get checked out. Even full on Asthma gives warnings.

For what its worth a quick setup for brooding chicks is a children's wading pool the hard sided kind.... Covered according to the temperature... then a heat lamp hung from the top. I never cleaned it... except when they went on to the coop. I only added more shavings. The whole thing can be dragged somewhere and flipped over then hosed out.

deb

 

[tntchix]

Sorry tntchix.

Does anyone have an outside set up for brooders? I have some week old chicks and some two week old poults and I need to move them outside.

I had a terrible spell last night after going in to then the chicks that I may have to give up raising them. I don't want to by I could not get any air in my lungs and collapsed and just felt as weak as a limp noodle. It really scared me and DH.
I would appreciate any ideas.

Ohmygosh, I am so sorry!
I now wear a dust mask when I go into the coop, yes it's ridiculous but I can breathe. Not really helping the ones in the house though, need a new plan too.

 

[tntchix]

I think you should go to the doctor and get checked out. Even full on Asthma gives warnings.

For what its worth a quick setup for brooding chicks is a children's wading pool the hard sided kind.... Covered according to the temperature... then a heat lamp hung from the top. I never cleaned it... except when they went on to the coop. I only added more shavings. The whole thing can be dragged somewhere and flipped over then hosed out.

deb

Yes, @chickadoodles please go get checked. I am headed there tomorrow. I am not one for the Dr. anymore, but you gotta breathe.

deb, they grow so fast they need something taller, mine are already flying up and hitting the lid. Gonna need the watermelon box sooner than the first time. LOL

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: buy two and cut a hole in one for access and heat lamp.... flip that one over and use c clamps to fasten them together.

But By the time they can fly I got em out in the coop... In their own partition and with a heat lamp for the night. Thats here though. At the house night time temps are sometimes twenty degrees cooler than day time.

deb

 

[Beer can]

Woman here in upstate NY broods her chicks outside, not sure of her setup. She had a heatlamp blow and lost all her creamlegbars. Someone suggested those ceramic heat emiter bulbs and said they don't blow. Me personally I don't have chicks until I know I can brood them inside and once they start feathering out it is warm enough for them to go outside. Problem with that though is they don't begin to start laying until winter hits, eggs are few and your feeding them all winter for random eggs.