Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

[AgnesGray]

View attachment 2025519here is my inside transition brooder, currently the chicks have no heat but the room temp is in the 50's View attachment 2025577my new this year brooders. Each level has a heater and is supposed to hold up to 100 day old chicks. I bought them because ducks are such a mess to brood and I was hoping the wire floor would help?View attachment 2025579here is s shot of inside, note I put down paper towels cuz I was nervous about their little feet.View attachment 2025580the babies reaching out for food

Wow!

This. Is. Awesome!!! One super cool setup!!! Thanks for sharing the pics! I've seen a brooder like the second one on Meyer Hatchery, I think, and admired it. Super impressive!

 

[aliciaplus3]

Wow!

This. Is. Awesome!!! One super cool setup!!! Thanks for sharing the pics! I've seen a brooder like the second one on Meyer Hatchery, I think, and admired it. Super impressive!

I bought the 2 metal brooders from cackle. they were the only place I could find that would ship it to me. the first one WAS a display case that my DH converted to a brooder, up till this year it was my main brooder. I am working on a section in my shop to move the babies out to that will be able to be heated so they can be transitioned sooner. I may have a small addiction going on over here? with over 120 plus eggs in incubation and more waiting to go in to be incubated. Does anyone know if there is a cure for this chicken bug that has caught me???
did I remember to mention the order of chicks that is coming the first of march, yeah just 25 cream legbars, 15 delaware pullets and 10 white plymouth rock pullets?? oh and still hatching at that time.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I bought the 2 metal brooders from cackle. they were the only place I could find that would ship it to me. the first one WAS a display case that my DH converted to a brooder, up till this year it was my main brooder. I am working on a section in my shop to move the babies out to that will be able to be heated so they can be transitioned sooner. I may have a small addiction going on over here? with over 120 plus eggs in incubation and more waiting to go in to be incubated. Does anyone know if there is a cure for this chicken bug that has caught me???
did I remember to mention the order of chicks that is coming the first of march, yeah just 25 cream legbars, 15 delaware pullets and 10 white plymouth rock pullets?? oh and still hatching at that time.

If there is a cure... you're asking the wrong people to reveal it. We're all just waiting for that next chick fix. Lol

 

[aliciaplus3]

If there is a cure... you're asking the wrong people to reveal it. We're all just waiting for that next chick fix. Lol

yeah but do any of us REALLY want to be cured??

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

View attachment 2025519here is my inside transition brooder, currently the chicks have no heat but the room temp is in the 50's View attachment 2025577my new this year brooders. Each level has a heater and is supposed to hold up to 100 day old chicks. I bought them because ducks are such a mess to brood and I was hoping the wire floor would help?View attachment 2025579here is s shot of inside, note I put down paper towels cuz I was nervous about their little feet.View attachment 2025580the babies reaching out for food

This looks awesome! Just like the feed store.

 

[LilyD]

Okay guys was pulling the babies into the brooder and doing an eggtopsy on the 4 the egg since it hadn't moved or made noise. I was super surprised to see it was alive bit malpositioned. Do the veins look ready to you?

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

Is it still chewing?

 

[LilyD]

Is it still chewing?

It hasn't broken the membrane yet I think it's head is down towards the bottom of the egg neck bottom front of the membrane but I could be wrong.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I left this little guy like this for 2days as he was still chewing. He came out ok.

 

[LilyD]

View attachment 2025624I left this little guy like this for 2days as he was still chewing. He came out ok.

Yeah I don't have the beak out yet will need to get that. Hoping that the veins will recede a bit.