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I will keep attempting to hatch. Think I will next month make a better incubator that holds more. And I sooooooooo rather have a momma do it. But I dont like missing out on fertile egg opportunity. So....blah
 
Flowerbh said:
I have read that your chickens need to be 3/4 the size of an adult to put in the pen with them.  For me, that is about 3 months old.  (Unless they were hatched under a broody, in which case, the mom takes care of them and they all just fit in right away.  It is amazing to see baby chicks walk right around a bunch of hens and they are ok when mom is there.....but put a few chicks from your brooder in without a mom,, never!

Rocky Rhodes and his wife just visited!  He swapped some Crested Cream Legbar pullets for my two Naked Neck chicks and a cuckoo Silkie!  Plus, he brought me 22 assorted hatching eggs!  My DH was really not going to let me keep the eggs until I made a 'deal' with him.....It involved sex of course, so I will get to hatch the eggs and DH will be strutting around like a proud Rooster!  LOL!  (Anything for more chickens, right??) 
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Book said:
I can't believe I am saying this but I am so looking forward to taking a "hatching" break. NEVER ever going to do staggered hatching again. It is insanity and so hard to track. We lost 2 chicks, two I foolishly helped to hatch and thought where fine. They got soaked in a new brooder bin with a new waterer because I had to split big chicks from small chicks. Just a few more eggs in the bator this week and then we are done till the New Years Hatch-along!

I need to simplify! Badly!
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When you have so many at different ages it is safer to use the water bottles with brooder bottle caps http://shop.chickenfountain.com/Brooder-Bottle-Cap-Set-009.htm and keep marbles in the open water source. That is what we (@locoschicks ) have used with multiple aged chicks and so far it worked great. I still use them I have 3 in the mini coop/run and 5 in the large coop/run. I used the 16 or 20oz Smart Water bottles with the brooder and the tall 33.8oz bottle for the coops/runs. You just show some of the chicks how to get water from the bottle caps and the others usually catch on. As chicks hatch and go in the brooder the see the others use the bottles and start using them. You will need to keep a bottle at a low and one at a high level for their different heights. Hope this helps!


The bottle is mounted in an upside down Ovaltine jar.
 
valleychicks said:
When you have so many at different ages it is safer to use the water bottles with brooder bottle caps http://shop.chickenfountain.com/Brooder-Bottle-Cap-Set-009.htm and keep marbles in the open water source. That is what we (@locoschicks ) have used with multiple aged chicks and so far it worked great. I still use them I have 3 in the mini coop/run and 5 in the large coop/run. I used the 16 or 20oz Smart Water bottles with the brooder and the tall 33.8oz bottle for the coops/runs. You just show some of the chicks how to get water from the bottle caps and the others usually catch on. As chicks hatch and go in the brooder the see the others use the bottles and start using them. You will need to keep a bottle at a low and one at a high level for their different heights. Hope this helps!


The bottle is mounted in an upside down Ovaltine jar.
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This was MY IDEA!!! I made a couple of drinkers out of old, cool shaped, long necked wine bottles and then I used old baseball caps to hang them in the coop. I ran a screw through the brim of the ball caps and put the neck of the bottle through the holes in the back of the caps. They worked great and looked really cool but I stopped using them because they needed refilling too often. I use 5 gallon bucket nipple drinkers now, I also keep a couple of regular 1 gallon drinkers on the ground for the smaller birds. I can't believe someone is asking $5.99 for a bottle cap with a nipple in it!! You can purchase a package of 3 nipples at Tractor Supply for about 5 bucks, and then all you have to do is drill a hole in the bottle cap or bucket or whatever and screw the nipple in. I think it is a 21/32 drill bit, but it has the drill bit size on the package of nipples. I should make a bunch and offer them for $4.99.
 
Rocky Rhodes said:
This was  MY IDEA!!! I made a couple of drinkers out of old, cool shaped, long necked wine bottles and then I used old baseball caps to hang them in the coop. I ran a screw through the brim of the ball caps and put the neck of the bottle through the holes in the back of the caps. They worked great and looked really cool but I stopped using them because they needed refilling too often. I use 5 gallon bucket nipple drinkers now, I also keep a couple of regular 1 gallon drinkers on the ground for the smaller birds. I can't believe someone is asking $5.99 for a bottle cap with a nipple in it!! You can purchase a package of 3 nipples at Tractor Supply for about 5 bucks, and then all you have to do is drill a hole in the bottle cap or bucket or whatever and screw the nipple in. I think it is a 21/32 drill bit, but it has the drill bit size on the package of nipples. I should make a bunch and offer them for $4.99.
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Yeah we started out with the brooder caps but I have made my own just by buying several of the nipple parts. I plan to make a bucket one soon with at least four nipples.
 
valleychicks said:
When you have so many at different ages it is safer to use the water bottles with brooder bottle caps http://shop.chickenfountain.com/Brooder-Bottle-Cap-Set-009.htm and keep marbles in the open water source. That is what we (@locoschicks ) have used with multiple aged chicks and so far it worked great. I still use them I have 3 in the mini coop/run and 5 in the large coop/run. I used the 16 or 20oz Smart Water bottles with the brooder and the tall 33.8oz bottle for the coops/runs. You just show some of the chicks how to get water from the bottle caps and the others usually catch on. As chicks hatch and go in the brooder the see the others use the bottles and start using them. You will need to keep a bottle at a low and one at a high level for their different heights. Hope this helps!


The bottle is mounted in an upside down Ovaltine jar.
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Ok so those make it so we do not have to use the marble waterers at all?
 

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