Uh oh! Too many chicks on the way!

[Wolfefarmyard]

I was going to start on a new diy brooder today and he was like why you need to build another one, I was like to get the ones out of the cardboard box we have. he fell for it!!!

Lucky you!

 

[Mybackyardpeepers]

Lucky you!

Not really, they are due to hatch and ship on the 28th. Time is ticking down fast.

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

Not really, they are due to hatch and ship on the 28th. Time is ticking down fast.

I know I really ought to get my brooder ready too! Mine are due just next week!

 

[MROO]

I feel it, too! I've got nine in the incubator (but I think two may be quitters,) a broody with a lone chick, another broody sitting on seven eggs and three in my brooder. The last three are going out to the main coop this tomorrow ... just in time to disinfect the brooder box & plate for the 'bator babies, which should start hatching this weekend. Guess who's roofing the extra run and adding perches and a box, this weekend? I LOVE Spring!

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

I feel it, too! I've got nine in the incubator (but I think two may be quitters,) a broody with a lone chick, another broody sitting on seven eggs and three in my brooder. The last three are going out to the main coop this tomorrow ... just in time to disinfect the brooder box & plate for the 'bator babies, which should start hatching this weekend. Guess who's roofing the extra run and adding perches and a box, this weekend? I LOVE Spring!

Haha! I know, we just had a broody hatch out some chicks too!

But 3 broodys AND a incubator full of eggs is a bit much, even for me!

Not to mention that the incubator has goose eggs, duck eggs, and chickens eggs! So we’re going to have quite the assortment!

With all these new babies I’m gonna have to reconfigure my coop and finish my other one that I’m in the process of building! Talk about last minute!

 

[MROO]

With all these new babies I’m gonna have to reconfigure my coop and finish my other one that I’m in the process of building! Talk about last minute!

Don't think of it as "last minute." Think of it as "incentive!"
I wish I had room for ducks. DD wants Cayugas in the worst way. And I have a hankering for a Sebastopol goose or two. LOVE those curly feathers!

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

Don't think of it as "last minute." Think of it as "incentive!"
I wish I had room for ducks. DD wants Cayugas in the worst way. And I have a hankering for a Sebastopol goose or two. LOVE those curly feathers!

So true!

I’ve had Swedish and Cayuga ducks before and really loved them! I never realized how ducklings imprint on you unlike chicks do normally. It was so neat to have a trail of ducklings following me!

I got out the incubator and decided to get more ducks again! The ones I have in there right now are Indian runners that are supposedly from show stock.

The geese eggs are a whole other story! I’ve wanted geese forever! But hubby has always been against it plus I’ve found it kind of hard to find some goslings available.

However, I had someone come buy some turkey eggs from me and he mentioned how he had geese! My eyes lit up right away, next thing I knew I had some African geese eggs in the incubator too!

 

[MROO]

If you need some ammo to get DH on board for the geese, use this information from The Livestock Conservancy (www.livestockconservancy.org) African Geese are on their "Watch List" for endangered species. To qualify for Watched status, there must be:

• Watch: Fewer than 5,000 breeding birds in the United States, with ten or fewer primary breeding flocks, and estimated global population less than 10,000. Also included are breeds with genetic or numerical concerns or limited geographic distribution.

Tell him that he has something extremely rare ... and that he's helping preserve it for the future!

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

If you need some ammo to get DH on board for the geese, use this information from The Livestock Conservancy (www.livestockconservancy.org) African Geese are on their "Watch List" for endangered species. To qualify for Watched status, there must be:

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  • Watch: Fewer than 5,000 breeding birds in the United States, with ten or fewer primary breeding flocks, and estimated global population less than 10,000. Also included are breeds with genetic or numerical concerns or limited geographic distribution.

Tell him that he has something extremely rare ... and that he's helping preserve it for the future!

Ah ha!!

Thank you! That’s how he finally got interested in blue slate turkeys, he found out that they’re rare!

 

[Perris]

Worse part is I'm still finishing the diy coop so all of them are indoors still!!!!

this thread should be re-titled 'Chicken math: some examples of how it works'