THE CHICKEN COOP. MN. The Second Hatch. From Incubation To Ready For Butcher
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2024
- This video shows everything from filling two incubators with eggs. The good and the bad of hatching. Raising them up to butcher time. Chickens, quail, turkeys, ducks and geese.
Great video. I incubate quail eggs and had problems with the legs and have learned to treat the problem to get the legs normal. I use a piece of drinking straw with a rubber band to hold the two legs apart for not more than two days and the legs get back in place. I found the method on the internet. You don't have to cull the birds with he leg problem. Love your set up.
In June 2015, I had just gotten to Trinka Davis Veteran's Village, Carrollton, GA. I spent around 6 months at the Atlanta VA, in the stroke recovery. I thought I found the 'Easter Eggs', but this one I finally found!:) I'm still hoping to leave Trinka in late 2021. I so miss MN... Semper Fidelis
Looks like you had a good hatching season and will have plenty of foul in the freezer this winter. Watching this has given me the bug to revamp my pens this winter and give raising birds another go next spring. Thanks for sharing with us.
Great man wonderful all of birds quail,hen,turkey,duck,geese
great video Joe. God bless and as always have a great day
Im sure this was a good bit of work, documenting your progress and all that, but it is greatly appreciated. I'd love to do this myself but I will have to settle for watching you for now. Thanks for taking the time to bring us along on your chicken coop days. It is informative and great entertainment!
I loved your long all bird video, thanks for doing it for us.
In the past I hatched hundreds of quail (southern bob white) I fabricated an incubator from a "duel lid" igloo cooler. I drilled holes one end to allow for a power cord for the heat light (all of 20W) and put a "jar" of water directly underneath (for humidity) The end I put those on was the drain in.. left drain open.. lined the inside with straw (1 I can recall had splay) Marked them M and E.. M was morning turn. E was evening.. 7 was check time. I would venture to guess I had a better than 90% hatch. I can't recall dis guarding many eggs. I started with 20 over 100 was a quick issue. BTW baby quail.. can sneak past that chicken wire easily. Keep them inside a finer mesh wire.. or a cardboard box.. they don't mind. :)
+Wanda Bailey Very cool on the homemade incubator and doing the Southern Bobs that way, they are a bit harder to hatch than the Cots. I love hatching and raising quail and have raised them off and on for over 25 years. This is my first time with the Snowflake variety. Thanks Wanda. Joe
I have to say, I've never watched a 30 minute video before, but I actually watched every bit of this video. It was great! Very informative! Thanks for sharing! And I really like your setup.
Wow I sure enjoyed this video! Thank you for taking the time to film as you go and all the hard work of splicing all together. Bet your floor is covered with the cuts you made. : ). Have a great week. Still getting in 90s here in Louisiana and 70s at night.
Great video! All I want to see after seeing over 100 videos on hatching on youtube!
Have you ever tried water candling? it works good on the ones that normal candling that you can see well and it avoids losing good eggs still about to hatch. UA-cam has a few videos you can watch if you don't know how to water candle.
Paper towels help get there footing so they don't splat good job thanks for the videos
Great Video I have seen a lot of it in previous videos, nice putting it all together. You have a great setup and you put so much work in to it.
Thanks for posting. I love your little hobby farm and the tent too!
Great Job !!! God bless you!!!!💫
Looks good Joe you got a zoo lol! I hope you have a safe and successful duck hunt this weekend.
+TheBrokenWing8 The video is compressing now. It is 50 minutes long and I had over 4 hours of footage, It took my 4 evenings to edit it and 2 evenings to watch it before I started the compressing. It should be uploaded sometime this weekend. Thank you. Joe
Wow, cant wait to see the hunt!
Good video Joe. Thanks for taking the time to put all the clips together.
When we added a few chickens to our flock they were killed also. When we work at our state fair I asked the poultry lady about it. She said add them at night in the dark. When they get up in the morning they don't seem to know the difference in numbers. We don't do any of the other birds but I know it works with the chickens. I would bet it would work with the quail and turkeys.
You are learning the hard way just as I have but I want to tell you something that might help your hatching, bring yourself from opening up the incubator lid during the time of Hatching! In doing so will let out the humidity and cause them to die in the shell. As I've said, I just want to help you and it seems like you are learning very quick on set and hatch out the eggs in your incubator, the hard way. In all honesty we all have and I'm sure I'll make many more mistakes in the future. I'll be looking for advice from you since I am following you on UA-cam. Thanks for the opportunity you have given. I like your videos you do not stutter and have clear pronunciation!
I had to laugh when you made the comment about the mess the duck made! Yeah, ducks are messy! That's why I don't like ducks in with my chickens.
That's a pretty tight space you have for the geese and ducks to share. From what I understand, geese are very territorial. If they had more space they may get a long better.
I thought about doing the quail, but not sure I could tolerate the noise they make. Maybe it's something one can get used to? Just not sure on them yet.
+MotherOfManyHorses definitely worth it because quail are tasty tasty birds.
Video turned out awesome baby! Now I want some ducks, they are sooooo cute!
+melissa70817 Ducks are nice but they are a bit messy. I can cook you some up after this weekends duck hunting opener? LOL.
Great video, Joe. I check every day to see if you have any new videos posted! Have a great weekend!
+cavediverjc Duck Hunting 2015 "The Movie" will be posted this weekend on J&Z. Thank you. Joe
You have an awesome set up for your poultry! I am impressed.
on your quail floor use magic cover grip shelf liner for your kitchen cabnets
You should use pine shavings or a non-slip pad for the quails. Because then they wouldn't get splay lay. And the newspaper doesn't seems to work well with quails. If you used the shavings or a non-slip pad for the snowflakes. You wouldn't possibly cull them. And lose a couple. I know you love snowflakes and I do to. :) So if you have time you should change the newspaper into shavings. God Bless you. Love the vids!
you can fix the legs of chicks when they are like that. basically twist tie their legs parallel.
Brandon Lee
Keep up the great vids- more tent vids would be also great. Thx a ton
nice set up...
i would suggest trying to keep humidity above 70% during lock down it will help with that sticky chick issue but not above 80% as they could drown i put four sponges in the corners of my little giant and taped off the bottom holes so i could add more water for lock down and had great results every time (but i only raise chickens and quail) but great vid I'm starting my second hatch of 2016 today 30 chicken eggs today and about 20 quail eggs in a few days so they lock down together
Oh... nice, was so glad to see them all out foraging at 27:30 I was afraid you were going to keep them penned the entire time :) How did your flat roofing and structures make it through the winters up there? Will you need to make some changes? Thanks for sharing! I hope you continue to do well with all of your birds. As you are keeping chickens and turkeys together, are you not worried because they are for eating? What are your thoughts on blackhead disease for your turkeys. Thanks again! Happy Hatching!
+Frederick Dunn I have not had any disease trouble yet at all. The the roof structure has a 12 inch sklope to it so the water runs off. The snow piles up like any other roof but everything is fine. I will need no changes. If I did it again I would do it like the cages I built down here in Louisiana (I am down here right now) for Melissa. I built the back cage part up in the air 2 feet so when it floods down here (which is common) they have a dry place to go. We dont have that problem in MN but the nice thing about that is that the 2 feet added all that much more square footage for them to walk. I really like that and would do that if I had to build again. If you have not seen the cages video from down here it is on this channel. I will be doing an update from down here this week. She has over a hundred birds I think now and 3 more incubators going with eggs in them. Stay tuned for the updates and thank you for commenting. Joe
+NorthernSeclusion *slope
+NorthernSeclusion Thanks for the reply... here in PA, we're not permitted to keep chickens on the same ground as turkeys... MN I'm sure has it's own Ag regulations... seems like things are more liberal there... glad you haven't had problems yet!
If you spray your newspapers to dampen them fairly well about a week before and allow it to dry completely before using, it will develop a rougher texture that is easier for the chicks to stand and walk on and not slippery like fresh newsprint
Where we lived there were tons of Muscovey's that we fed pieces of hot dogs and shelled corn. %0 pounds a week of corn. People would get mad at us. Then too the Mallards came also. Went by this place last Saturday just a few left
I think I heard the geese need lots of water to mate. So if you don't get fertile eggs maybe you can find out about it. Been enjoying your videos. Thanks
can i make a suggestion? try not to open the box from the last day of putting them on the tray till day 2 after the 1st hatch< as they can cling wrap if you do? the humidity needs to stay very high. good luck
You should use cracked corn in your brooder, since I have done that NO leg problems.
Those quail are really neat.
very entertaining video mate! funny little things.....hehe
Great video
Thanks for posting
I miss this thanks for sharing...
thanks for another great learn video helps alot
Good job, have got a lot of tips on incubation, just bought an incubator and want to incubate chicken eggs.
The plastic incubators seem to work better with the quail and the styrofoam ones with chickens. The heat sensors don't work accurately on the plastic ones to keep it warm enough
wow great job
I was thinking that when you help the birds out of the egg don't take them all the way out , just break the shell away from the hole big enough so they can get themselves out the rest of the way, so the shock of hatching is reduced.
+Peter Mundy Sometimes Melissa does that but sometimes they are almost like glued to the inside and they eventually die thats why I attempted to help them all the way out. Thank you.
+NorthernSeclusion Peter is correct. Only remove the top shell and make sure the head of the chick is free so it can make the final push. Also don't open the incubator when there is hatching going on, the humidity will drop and then make it even harder to hatch out of the egg. I would not mix geese, chicken, duck and quail eggs together since they require different settings of humidity, hatching temp and also daily cooling of the eggs.
I like your videos
good job man ! great video! thanks !
If you don't want them to die, introduce all of them to a brand new area. There is no establish pecking order for the new area yet and they will spend their time exploring instead of picking on the new ones. After they get along, then you can bring them all back into the original pen.
+Hung Nguyen Great advice. Thank you. Joe
Helps a LOT if youngsters can be "introduced" to the flock. Grandpa raised the pullets next to the layers with their food and water close together and was patient. Joining the flocks was never much of a problem. One poster on UA-cam suggested removing the boss hen for three days. The older birds are in to much of a tizzy to pay much attention to the newcomers, after 3 days put her back and a new round of sorting things out occurs. The old "Lets you and him fight" strategy. By this time the youngsters are part of the flock. Thinking this would work with the quail also.
Thank you for putting out this video. I am following you on UA-cam and I see where I could get one of these incubators for $100. On setting your eggs I would dip them in a mixture of water and Listerine I don't know the exact measurements I'm sure you can find it on UA-cam as I have in the past but have forgotten. Maybe the eggs being dirty kept your eggs from hatching? It's worth a try and see if you have better hatchability rates. Once again thank you for posting your videos they are full of information that a lot of people don't know. Try the Listerine and water mixture to clean your eggs before placing them into your incubator. I hope it raises your hatchability.
50% regular Listerine and 50% water mist them when you set them
Dennis Zimmerman thank you Dennis I appreciate the reply back. I've heard of the Listerine but I didn't know how to part it. Thanks greatly appreciated.
love your video. thanks for sharing with us. What kind of incubator are you using in this video. I would like to have one of those.
Great video. Thanks for taking the time to make it. Question. Are you concerned the quail will pop a tendon during transfer in that plastic bowl from incubator? I just remember you saying smooth surfaces caused that.
If u put newspaper on the brooding box they can have flat feet or something. They slip and can't hold grip so they can't walk right.
before tossing the bad eggs out, did you check the progress of some of the eggs?
It is better not to have assisted hatching. Let the strongest to survive. Chicks those who can come out of the shell by breaking it, are the strongest. Now question is, why the live chicks could not break the shell? Few reasons are responsible for this. First of all, the humidity level was not up to the expected level i.e 70% - 80% on the last three days. Secondly, if you open the incubator cover too often, the eggs will dry out, the shell will become harder for the chicks to break open.
This video is BAD ASS!!!
cute babies
damn Joe you are a pro. when can I come hang out?
Pretty cool!
Hello a nice video: I want to ask you if in the day 18 you have to get out the thing than goes around to move the egg sorry but I don’t speak English
A few things your doing wrong, you need to use a mat to stop them getting splayed legs. The can't grip smooth paper. You open your incubator too much. Wait until all eggs have hatched before opening, they are good in the incubator for 25 hours after hatching, that's why you get chicks stuck in eggs. Also you should get a second thermometer in each of them incubators, not just trusting what the display says, that may be why you get poor numbers taking, temps may be off on them Chinese incubators. Also hatching duck eggs with poultry isn't the best. They have bacteria on them that's harmful to other eggs.
It really does not matter but I appreciate your advice just so others can read it. I hatch way more birds than I need even using foreign incubators.
Why do you have all those sticks and leaves in the middle of the quail pen?
I just love that
Sure is hard to pay good money for eggs that don't hatch. You sure put a lot of time and effort into your birds.
i think the eggs need to be clean before their incubated and really large eggs and really small eggs should not incubate together, and the hatch rate should improve, also if eggs are always poopy that's an indicator that your birds may have worms, just trying to help :-)
Spraddle leg can be fixed but it might not be worth your time? Good job my friend I like your pens that you have made...
trying to figure out why your hatch rate seems so low. I'm wondering if you're putting too much water in your incubator. I seem to remember putting to much water in my incubator in one of my first batches and getting slowed/delayed development, which makes me wonder if you should consider not being so quick to discard eggs by candling: at least until hatch day.
I think the point of the water in the incubator is to provide "just enough" moisture to prevent egg membranes from sticking. If you've ever felt underneath a brooding hen, it's not a rain forest under there. Plus, the water (especially cold water) will cause the bottom of the incubator to be cooler than the top causing uneven temperature. I think this is why I got lower hatch rate from the batch with too much water. Uneven temperature = uneven development.
I'm from the south where there's a lot of natural humidity, and I quickly learned that I didn't really need to add water to my incubator. I think a good way to judge if and when to add water is to check your lips, if your lips are starting to dry then add just a little puddle of water under your heating source in your incubator so that the water can be quickly warmed to get rid of uneven temperature.
This was so helpful
You are doing a great job but a broody hen is better for the eggs
The way you brutally peeled them out of their eggs there was no way they could have survived.
What's the brand & model of incubator? Cost? How does it compare in quality to Miller incubators made in Minnesota and HovaBator incubators made in Plymouth Indiana?
Hello; I am thinking about a quail farm.... Please name the quail types you have... Thanks for your video
Put younger chicks of any species in the roost at night when older are sleeping. When the older awaken they think the younger have always been there.
You need to give yourducks and geese more water.
this is important
Hi thanks for your video. Please do tell me, I am trying to build my own egg incubator. I have 1/240 RPM motor and a 2.5 RPM motor for egg turning. Which one is better and more efficient? Your comment will greatly help me to build it.
What do you do with all the chicken and birds
I need them in my own farm in Cameroon thanks
good
Where are you gonna store all this meat?
Were did you get the incubator
Where do you buy your eggs?
Nice video, please do not keep the ducks with the goose. Goose have aggressive nature & they will disturb ducks.
+Nauman Qureshi They were a bit rough the first week but they have been together now for months and all get along great, they even sleep right next to each other. Thank you. Joe
+NorthernSeclusion, that's nice but when will be time for nesting, goose disturb their nests. Every time I make sperate each type of birds for nesting. Wish you best of luck.
We turned ours everyday..?
I just got one of these incubators and I'm trying to figure out what to do with the hanging wire from the tuner. Do you find it gets caught up in the turner?
Just lay it over the eggs and you will be fine, it has never got tangled for me. Thank you. Joe
Thank you for your quick response. Will do that.
Have you ever thought about hatching pheasants
What do you mean the chicken chick "wasn't quite right?" What was wrong with it? And what did you do to "take care of it yourself?"
Wasnt quite right meant it was not normal. Use your imagination on the rest. I am not here to nurse the sick, I want healthy.
@@NorthernSeclusion Alright. Well, unsubscribed. Take care!
ducks or also cool just like you
What type of incubator do you use to name brand please
where did you get those red incubators
I bought mine here. Thank you. Joe www.coopsnmore.com/Rite_Farm_Products_3600_Pro_Digital_Egg_Incubator_p/1947.htm
ok thanks
Not for nothing.. the igloo had already lost it's plug.. so no loss on that.. but $10 is a LOT cheaper than these mfg "incubators" with all the digital stuff.
what is the incubator called i would low to get one
do you sell any quail
What do you do with all the quail?
Quial are some good eaten
Quail
Help!!! I love to raise and hatch out chicks... Can't find it in my heart to kill em and eat em... Any tips or tricks, my flock is growing and growing
Can I have them in my country Cameroon reply me back thanks
ishe a farmer?
What kind of incubator
+Landon Holewinski The red ones are Rite Farm products model 3600 I believe. They sell them at a place called Coops n More. You can find them online there. Thanks Landon. Joe
Joe what do u mean by lock down?
+Dean Dereworiz When you get within 3 days of the hatch you pull out all the bad eggs and you pull out the egg turner and you shut the top and do not open it until many have hatched. You "lock down" the incubator. You dont want any heat or moisture variations during the last few days. Thank you. Joe
Cool Tks!
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How do you call your them?