Have you got the chick bug yet Update and pics

[crazyland]

We have 22 chicks in the brooder. I got but pretty hard! I have RIR, some of those new white with black spotted hens from tsc and various bantams.
Still on the list to get is quail.

 

[boothcreek]

Its that time of year so we have ordered some chicks for delivery also filling the incubators with some of our rare breed eggs.

For delivery
20 Barred Rock day old females
150 day old meat birds White Rock Cornish X
Then from across the border (US)
Partridge Rocks, Gold Buff Orps, Araucanas and Cuckoo Marans. (all small numbers)
The bulk of our layers (Red Sex Link) live in trailers in the different pastures with the cattle and sheep but my US order will be for around the store and farm yard. Our incubators will have Chantecler eggs
So who else has the chick bug - what have you coming by delivery or incubator

That sounds like a lot of chickies, watch out those meatbirds will STINK up the barn pretty quick.

What hatchery are you ordering from in the US? I have always dealt with Ideal and never had Issues. Murray McMurray chicks never seem to make it thru the first week with us and take longer to be shipped(which is odd since they are closer then Ideal but Ideal makes it in 24 hrs, murray3-4 days - which may account for loss of most of the orders)

I got brooders full of Quail and Black Leghorns, hatched my first goslings in January, got my first 3 aussi spot ducklings in the brooder as of 4 days ago and a bator full of B/B/S Ameraucanas, Australian Spotted duck, Muscovy duck and goose eggs. Now I just have to seperate all my other breeds out and I will drown in chicks this year!!!!

 

[Royd Wood]

That sounds like a lot of chickies, watch out those meatbirds will STINK up the barn pretty quick.

Only in the barn for 3 weeks max then in pasture pens which we move a couple of times a day

What hatchery are you ordering from in the US? I have always dealt with Ideal and never had Issues.

Now you have me worried Why 3 - 4 days what are they playing at - I have just shipped piglets all over Canada on overnight deliveries

I got brooders full of Quail and Black Leghorns, hatched my first goslings in January, got my first 3 aussi spot ducklings in the brooder as of 4 days ago and a bator full of B/B/S Ameraucanas, Australian Spotted duck, Muscovy duck and goose eggs. Now I just have to seperate all my other breeds out and I will drown in chicks this year!!!!

We breed Pheasants and so wanted to do quail this year but not ready for those little guys - hopefully next year

Good Luck boothcreek and everyone with your 2 legged feathered friends

 

[that's*satyrical]

*hangs head in shame*

Got 8 golden comets yesterday to add to the bunch & 6 cornish rocks. They had them for 75 cents a piece, I couldn't resist that offer. This makes total for us 8 full grown RIR, 2 full grown white leghorn, 2 full grown pearl grey guineas, 2 buff orp, 2 black australorp, 2 SLW (all about 6-7 weeks) 4 Americauna, 2 buff brahma, 1 blk sex link, (all about 4-5 weeks), 6 barred rocks (2-3 weeks) and all the new 14 babies are a week old.


Eeekkk!!! That's 45 birds.

 

[purplequeenvt]

I'm afraid I have had it too.........I have 7 three week old chicks - 6 Speckled Sussex and 1 mutt. I also have an order coming in May (too-far-away *gasp*) of 20 chicks from Murray McMurray.

 

[redtailgal]

I will not get any chicks.

I will not get any chicks.

I will not get any chicks.

 

[SmallFarmGirl]

I will not get any chicks.

I will not get any chicks.

I will not get any chicks.

Trust me... You WILL get chicks.

 

[purplequeenvt]

I will not get any chicks.

I will not get any chicks.

I will not get any chicks.

That's what I tell myself every time I go into Tractor Supply. It works as long as they don't have Speckled Sussex, feather-footed or crested bantams, or Blue Swedish ducks.

 

[SmallFarmGirl]

I will not get any chicks.

I will not get any chicks.

I will not get any chicks.

That's what I tell myself every time I go into Tractor Supply. It works as long as they don't have Speckled Sussex, feather-footed or crested bantams, or Blue Swedish ducks.

I tried that too. It doesn't work.

 

[beckyburkheart]

We just hatched another batch and i'm very disappointed at how few seem to hatch. we're only getting 2-4 chicks for about a dozen eggs. ... we've hatched maybe four batches over the last year or so.

i have a styrofoam incubator i bought from tractor supple and the automatic turner. we keep the temp set at 99.5 (or whatever it is supposed to be, there is a mark on the thermometer) and keep the water channels full. I turn the turner off at about 18-19 days.

I tried hand turning with the first batch, but my schedule can be weird and i stressed about it, so i went back and got the turner.

any ideas what we're doing wrong?