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Book said:
That is adorable! I love your set up!
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Thank you! I love the bigger brooder. We got the idea from https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/amferro103s-homemade-chicken-brooder Ours is longer and narrower than the original on the link to fit our space. I painted it for easy cleaning and it has an old piece of unused laminate flooring on the floor.
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Let's say I cleaned out my old coop bedding (been sitting empty since girls moved to new one, so 2-3 months maybe?).. Dusted the floor with DE, put new bedding down..

Do y'all think the 3&4 week olds will be okay in it with their light tonight? Respiratory wise?
 
carcar80 said:
Let's say I cleaned out my old coop bedding (been sitting empty since girls moved to new one, so 2-3 months maybe?).. Dusted the floor with DE, put new bedding down..

Do y'all think the 3&4 week olds will be okay in it with their light tonight? Respiratory wise?
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Yep!
I have moved two-days-old chicks to the playpens outside under the carport where I also happen to park my car. But the are just fine in there, both temerature and air-quality. No breathing problems, no chicks that got too cold.
 
So I just "candled" the 5-gallon aquarium, and my baby betta fish are getting their colors! And boy are they beautiful! I think I found the one we're keeping, because it seems to be a solid royal blue. The main reason I bred them was to get the red colored bottom (pelvic) fins OUT of the mostly blue fish! I wanted a solid dark blue fish, with no red fins, no red gills, no red streaks, period. Just blue.

Although you can tell these two fish are commercially-bred, because both parents are blue, but it seems I also ended up with an iridescent green, other mixed shades of blue, and possibly a white one...

The mom appears to be mostly blue, just not as dark, and dad is a nice deep blue, with the two very thin red pelvic fins drooping down directly below his gills. Unfortunately, pelvic fins in a betta are very long, so it's easy to see. But neither fish has green or white on them. So their ability to produce those colors tells me they probably have a big jumble of colors in their lineage.
 
So. I got the chicks moved to their new coop. They were so excited I couldn't even get a pic of them, they were too busy running about and scratching in the new shavings. :D

As I finished up with them, Olive was walking by. So I snatched her up and gave her a DE bath. She was a good girl. I just love her. She has the dust-bunny-looking groupings at the base of her feathers around her vent.

Then I decided to go ahead and wrangle the other three since they were headed to roost. I learned some things during all this:

1) Sweet Pea, the "other" Black star, doesn't care for being caught but was quite sweet once she realized a free massage was involved. She didn't really have any obvious signs of the crawly critters, at least around the vent, but got a good dousing anyway.

2) my BO has actually turned out to be impressively meaty, and will probably end up on the table one day after serving her laying purposes. She is a *beautiful* girl too! She also tolerated her DE bath well enough. Oh, she was also the WORST infested bird, but what I saw on her was the big RED mites, ALL around her vent. :( :( Ugh. Anyway, apparently they've not caused her any harm as of yet as she certainly isn't poor by any means.

3) My red star was apparently a velociraptor in her previous life. Luckily, in MY previous life, I was a highly-skilled velociraptor wrangler, subduing said birds with two hands while using my third and fourth hands to apply velociraptor stuff onto their hineys. She was ****** at me!! :lau

Anyway, how long until I look for results? Them repeat in two weeks? Right?
 

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