Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Marty1876]

Chicken Crazy -

I like the new pairs!

Celtic - maybe you should start trading birds for brooders! I'm sure theres more than one who would go for it! Heck, maybe I'll send you my hubby for some geese! Besides, he could use a little vacation. (Buy supplies, he likes to eat!) LOL

 

[bakingintherain]

Well, when (and if) he figures it out, just be like "wow, what a deal! I bet someone is bummed to be getting those cheap white leghorns!!" After all, turkeys do cost more than (most) chickens!

that will probably just tip him off and he will get

 

[Marty1876]

that will probably just tip him off and he will get

you could try this....

 

[Iain Utah]

I have a question for you ladies.... on Friday, my first set will be one month old. At what age would it be ok to move them to the indoor coop over on the horse property? It has electric, so I could put the heat lamp in it, but I have heard concerns about fire safety with that?

 

[bakingintherain]

you could try this....

he would know i was faking but i could try!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Marty, he would be in luck here. I LOVE to cook, and always have the guest room set up with all supplies needed for pampering guests. Of course we have loads of fence to put up too, so you may not see him for awhile. LoL

 

[bakingintherain]

i am still the highest bidder on the turkey eggs! but things could change, there are six more days! i just have to remember not to win at all cost and to stay on budget (i sometimes get carried away when it comes to bidding) which is CHEAP!!!!

 

[Marty1876]

Marty, he would be in luck here. I LOVE to cook, and always have the guest room set up with all supplies needed for pampering guests. Of course we have loads of fence to put up too, so you may not see him for awhile. LoL

OK, but you just send him back with those lovely sebastopol geese, hon!! LOL. We were just putting up fence again yesterday. We need a new turkey poult fence, new duck run, and we are adopting a mastiff x lab/shepard, and we had to make a run against the house, with some fence 12' high so he can't jump from our porch out over the 7". I'm guessing after all the work the poor man has done on our 135 year old house, and all my pens, he'd welcome the change in scenery and somebody else standing over him saying something like..."ok, just one more over that-a-way......6" should do it!"

 

[Marty1876]

I have a question for you ladies.... on Friday, my first set will be one month old. At what age would it be ok to move them to the indoor coop over on the horse property? It has electric, so I could put the heat lamp in it, but I have heard concerns about fire safety with that?

Even the safest items can catch fire. I put out my babies (with a light for heat) when they are around 4 weeks old too. Mine also go to a barn BUT you MUST be sure no cats, racoons, skunks, dogs, ferrits, etc can get in and dine on your hard won babies. If there is the slightest risk, I'd keep them under safer conditioins until they are too big to be tempting. (of course, foxes will get darn near anything from quail to goose). If you go for it, just be sure your light is well wired, so that it can't fall into your bedding, and don't let it be very close to cardboard, wood, etc. Just be sensible, and test the thing for structural integrity. I do it all the time, AND I used boxes as brooders - when they get smelly, I give them a new box, and use the old ones as weed barriers in the garden, or put into compost after I run over them with the mower once or twice. Hope this helpls. Im a low tech cheapskate, but hey, I need that money to buy EGGS to hatch NEW varieties!

 

[ChristineR]

I recently bought an EcoGlow brooder because I do not trust those heat lamps.

http://www.brinsea.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=52

I have a question for you ladies.... on Friday, my first set will be one month old. At what age would it be ok to move them to the indoor coop over on the horse property? It has electric, so I could put the heat lamp in it, but I have heard concerns about fire safety with that?