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carcar80 said:
Sooo.. Anybody got 2-3 chicks I could raise for ya for a couple weeks?
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I'll give em back...
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My incubator is on day 10. I'll have some in 11 days (I hope)
This is my first ever hatch :)
 
carcar80 said:
Not mature ones, not off the top of my head. But I'll be on the lookout for ya. God willing, I'll have plenty of chicks this spring but that won't do you any good this year..
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Thank you! I'd love to try an incubator, but I don't have a ton room or electricity in my coop. It makes brooding harder!
 
goldie1234 said:
Thank you! I'd love to try an incubator, but I don't have a ton room or electricity in my coop. It makes brooding harder!
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you would not want to incubate outside or in your coop. You need a place that has a steady temperature and humidity, away from drafts and direct sunlight. I put my incubator on my bookshelf in a corner where there are not a lot of drafts or temperature changes. I have a small brooder in my garage with the appropriate light/heat source. You could use a box for a brooder! You would love incubating eggs! It is so wonderful to see baby chicks hatch! It's such a miracle to see birth! I love it!
 
Clinton 78 said:
I got my first eggs today. 3/4 hens laid and the other 4 are pullets. Or my 9 yr old son got them while I was at work. I'm hoping to get s fewore this weekend.
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Nothing Thursday but I got 3 eggs today by lunch. 2 from my big australorps and 1 little starter egg from my pullet. She screamed and raised a fuss for a egg the size of a bannys eggs. It was so pail it was almost white. But that was her first I know she will get it.
 
Flowerbh said:
you would not want to incubate outside or in your coop. You need a place that has a steady temperature and humidity, away from drafts and direct sunlight.   I put my incubator on my bookshelf in a corner where there are not a lot of drafts or temperature changes.  I have a small brooder in my garage with the appropriate light/heat source.  You could use a box for a brooder!  You would love incubating eggs!  It is so wonderful to see baby chicks hatch!  It's such a miracle to see birth!  I love it!
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Right! I would incubate inside. I just meant my coop is pretty full and I'd have to brood in my garage! Lol! I'm having trouble justifying an incubator. If I got one if have to get a advanced (lol) and therefore get a lot of use out of it. I was thinking I'd just hatch if I had a hen go broody. We had a brooder in our garage for 6 weeks this summer. It got old!

As you can see I'm thinking about more chicks! I just need more coop space! We have 17 acres, but the coop only hold 20 and we have 14 hens. (With a few more coming)!
I shouldn't buy an incubator if I don't need chicks, right? BUT, if a hen went broody and some eggs happened to get under her! Lol!
 
What are y'all's thoughts on giving eggs to a broody this time of year? I have a silkies who's been sitting on some golfballs for a couple weeks now and I feel a little bad for her. Would letting her hatch some stop her from brooding?
 
ShadesofSable said:
What are y'all's thoughts on giving eggs to a broody this time of year? I have a silkies who's been sitting on some golfballs for a couple weeks now and I feel a little bad for her. Would letting her hatch some stop her from brooding?
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well the mom would take care of them and keep them warm you just need to provide a good home for them and yes it would break her broody for a while.
 
ShadesofSable said:
What are y'all's thoughts on giving eggs to a broody this time of year? I have a silkies who's been sitting on some golfballs for a couple weeks now and I feel a little bad for her. Would letting her hatch some stop her from brooding?
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I just had a broody hatch some chicks on New Years Day and I have two more hens sitting on eggs. I'm not sure when they started sitting......we were out of town when they began to sit, but I am thinking they should hatch in the next day or two!! I did almost lose two chicks when the first hen decided to take the two day old chicks outside and two of them couldn't get over the 4" high barrier. I just happened to be going to check on them and found the two almost dead from the cold. If I had waited 5 minutes more, they would have died. I ended up taking all the chicks away and putting them in the brooder. I like it that way anyway because I can hand raise them and they are use to people. The other two hens I will put in some separate cages in the garage after the chicks hatch just because they will be safer at this time of year.
 

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