2012 breeding and tips on brooding chicks

Salam to my beloved readers.
My two hens which both white legged red gamefowl,hatched some eggs this week.
The eggs were from my various hens and pullets since these two were setting
first on the nests,so they have the responsiblity to hatch them.

My oldest hens.Stags produce from her were outstanding.Zero lost.

Sister to my winning stags.Winning line.

I am very happy with chicks,since they dont deformed like crooked leg especially.
These are some of the advantages of having hen hatched chicks,as per my observation,
aside more robust from colds and fever within their growing stages when
compared to artificial incubation.Of course you can have the capability to hatch more
eggs whenever you want it to,with incubator.Well,I do not emphasize on quantity tho,
but more on sustaining the health of the chickens apparently.

New chicks hatched by hens above.The hens set 20 eggs each.So far,nearly half hatched.

The earlier chick.6 hatched but only 4 survived.The other two just too weak.

These chicks will stay inside in house brooder for at least 2 months of their first life.Brooding
in house is the only choice that I have since the temperature fluctuations,
high tides and raining seasons.Within these period,I will start my vaccination program
which consist of 3 type of vaccines.These are fowl pox,Newcastle Disease and Infectious
Bronchitis.They also having medication which is Duoko(against coryza
and coccidiosis) for the first week thru their water.And some important point is to maintain
the surrounding temp.Try your best to make them warm,maybe close to their incubation
temperature.I use a normal single bulb @ 25watts for a 1 1/2 feet X 2 feet brooder
and place indoor with a normal room temperature of 27C.

MyVAC 201(newcastle + IB vaccine) and Fowl pox FP

The best ways to treat them is by allocating maximum numbers of chicks in particular size of
brooder.A 2 X 1 1/2 feet brooder size will be able to house a maximum of 5 chicks as I
experianced.The more chicks in cramp size brooder will invite canabalism,boredom
(maybe,I can not talk to my chicks) and led to malnutrition and lastly death.

I always try to keep the brooder clean and away from mosquitoes and domestic flies.

Very active indeed.

Hopefully,the two hens will be setting for another 2 weeks(hopefully) to hatch all the eggs.
A long setted hens can cause trouble to egg since the hens are afraid to go out for
poops and eat/drink,they tend to poop in the nest.

Until next post.