offbeatentrack (offbeatentrack) wrote in thepeacockranch, @ 2008-04-04 08:51:00 |
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Entry tags: | chickens, eggs |
We have quail eggs! In the incubator!
I have no clue if I'm doing it right or what. The auto egg turner on the incubator we bought is broken, which kind of sucks, but I just move it by hand a couple of times a day. The humidity is suposed to be kept at 60%, but even with the entire floor of the thing covered in water I can barely get it to 56%. I have no clue how to get it to 85% the day they hatch. At least I managed to finally get the temp to stop vacillating from 93 to 113. It's been pretty steady right around 99.5-100.2. I realized yesterday that we're going to have to take the eggs out of the racks, probably on day 15 since that's when you stop turning them. Funny how nothing ever mentioned this, but if they hatch on the racks, the chicks will all fall out.
Our latest batch of chicken babies are ready to go outside on Monday, but we're not ready to move them. Unless we miraculously finish the chicken coop this weekend. It should have been done weeks ago, but the weather and illness are working against us. It's fucking snowing..in April. *headdesk* Hopefully we can get it finished this weekend. We really only have to make the roosts, cut the entrances and finish the back. It would be great if we could get the nesting boxes done as well, but those can wait. The important bit is to get the adult chickens out of the area they're in now so that the juveniles can go in there. Well, once we get them moved out, we need to muck out their current coop and then put the juveniles in there with their heat lamps for the next two months and then we can move them out with the other adults.
Then! We need to clean out the area under the deck again, rearrange it and make it into a more permanent quail set up. Prior to moving in there, the quail will be kept in chick brooding boxes that we've already got built.
In the meantime...my seeds need to germinate dammit.