Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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Nice, I have a riding lawn tractor too, front yard is grass and about 14,000sqft. Glad my other 2 acres is forest. I would hate to have to keep up on that much lawn. I would just kill it anyway. Our Pastor is making a coop out of a trampoline frame too. His 3yo wants chickens to lay eggs.

 

[bikerchicky]

Nice, I have a riding lawn tractor too, front yard is grass and about 14,000sqft. Glad my other 2 acres is forest. I would hate to have to keep up on that much lawn. I would just kill it anyway. Our Pastor is making a coop out of a trampoline frame too. His 3yo wants chickens to lay eggs.

DH had a 5 acre lot and built a house that he shared with his ex-wife. She was rather clueless about placement of gardents, clothes lines, etc. I'm working to correct some of this. Only about an acre is "cultivated" into a yard with garden/flower beds. The rest is all wooded. I'd love to be able to make a pen in the wooded area, but it isn't very level so would leave lots of spaces for hens to get out, or other critters to get in.

DH is open to the chickens but says "they will be yours to care for" just like our kitten. The kitten (almost 1 now) has claimed him as her human. We will see how long it takes him to start interacting with the babies.

 

[robj]

So check this out we built a couple of cooler-bators and borrowed an LG for DD's science fair project, bought some eBay eggs and some local eggs (Birchen Marans).Went through all the BYC info forums followed ALMOST all the directions. No luck! We did see two peeping on day 28 helped them out. one got out then passed the other never made it out. What the Heck! So in go more eBay eggs in one cooler-bator in what I think is my best thermometer (the owl) and a combo thermometer/hygrometer from Lowes. Then I calibrated all the thermometers I had laying around and my Incubator Warehouse combo which I thought was way off due to the owl and lowes therms. WRONG!!! yes they were off but not but more then a degree or two.
This is day 28 of that batch and look what popped out with one more pipping! Wahooo SUCCESS!!

But take a look at the thermometers REALLY I put the Incubator warehouse combo with the probe in to set the thermostat and left these in. I was almost 10 degrees to cool the whole time with all the other eggs!

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Oh well we got it figured out the cooler-bators work as long as I follow ALL the directions and we have Chickie's.
The owl is good for something the peep this it's a mommy bird it snuggles and eve pecks at it!!

 

[bikerchicky]

Oh....need input from this great group of chicken peeps.

I met my Dominque chick today and she's a keeper. She's at least 1-2 weeks older than my chicks at my GF's. I was thinking that I could get the Dom in 2 weeks, bring hom the Braham (biggest of my 4) and let them meet and greet at my house until they are ready to go outside. Any thoughts on this? Best method to introduce them? At 3-5 weeks of age, will they get by with just a lamp, or do they still need a true heat lamp?

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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Someday I will fence the other 2 acres in and get a couple of goats and a pig. The chickens will stay in the back yard. Too many hawks and coyotes around. Funny about the cat. Every cat we have owned has targeted my dad as their human. He HATES cats.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Oh....need input from this great group of chicken peeps.

I met my Dominque chick today and she's a keeper. She's at least 1-2 weeks older than my chicks at my GF's. I was thinking that I could get the Dom in 2 weeks, bring hom the Braham (biggest of my 4) and let them meet and greet at my house until they are ready to go outside. Any thoughts on this? Best method to introduce them? At 3-5 weeks of age, will they get by with just a lamp, or do they still need a true heat lamp?

The younger the better. 3 weeks temp under lamp should be 75-80 and 5 weeks less than 65

 

[bikerchicky]

Someday I will fence the other 2 acres in and get a couple of goats and a pig. The chickens will stay in the back yard. Too many hawks and coyotes around. Funny about the cat. Every cat we have owned has targeted my dad as their human. He HATES cats.

My Tux is my cat. He makes it very obvious to EVERYONE. Luna knows "Dad" and knows that when he's around the "magic red spot" comes out to play. She won't bug me at all, except for petting. But when Dad is home she talks up a storm until the red light comes out to play. It's so funny. I told him that she knows it only comes out when he's home. He won't believe me. And...when she was a kitten, last August after our road trip, he would sit in the family room playing on the XBOX and she would curl up in his lap for hours. She doesn't do that with me every. So....she has claimed him whether he likes it or not.

 

[RainMom]

So check this out we built a couple of cooler-bators and borrowed an LG for DD's science fair project, bought some eBay eggs and some local eggs (Birchen Marans).Went through all the BYC info forums followed ALMOST all the directions. No luck! We did see two peeping on day 28 helped them out. one got out then passed the other never made it out. What the Heck! So in go more eBay eggs in one cooler-bator in what I think is my best thermometer (the owl) and a combo thermometer/hygrometer from Lowes. Then I calibrated all the thermometers I had laying around and my Incubator Warehouse combo which I thought was way off due to the owl and lowes therms. WRONG!!! yes they were off but not but more then a degree or two.
This is day 28 of that batch and look what popped out with one more pipping! Wahooo SUCCESS!!

But take a look at the thermometers REALLY I put the Incubator warehouse combo with the probe in to set the thermostat and left these in. I was almost 10 degrees to cool the whole time with all the other eggs!

.

Oh well we got it figured out the cooler-bators work as long as I follow ALL the directions and we have Chickie's.
The owl is good for something the peep this it's a mommy bird it snuggles and eve pecks at it!!

I'm soooo confused- is the thermometer in that incubator reading 109 degrees and 59% humidity?
BTW- darling little chick!
28 days incubation- good grief, you got the sloooooowwwww-baked chicks over there Rob!

 

[bikerchicky]

The younger the better. 3 weeks temp under lamp should be 75-80 and 5 weeks less than 65

My concern is that the Dom is more than double the size of the other chicks. I don't want her to hurt the others. That was why I was thinking of waiting another 2 weeks until they are closer in size. Wouldn't that be better than having one very big chick pick on the little ones?

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Quote: Cats ALWAYS pick their people, NEVER the other way around.

Quote: I put my orphan LF chick in with the silkie chicks when his momma was killed by a hawk, they were the same age, but he was twice their size. He didn't pick on them, in fact he ended up in the middle of the chick order under 2 silkies. You could do it like people do with adult birds. Turn off the lights for a while, put the new chicks in and then turn the lights back on. Just don't let the lights off too long as to cause them to get cold(I would say 30 min of no light would be long enough)