chickens in the basement

I agree with Matt. but have to add, the chicks would be very busy and it would get them used to scratching and hunting for dinner.

The best way to reinforce behavior is to giver random awards for what you want to see. Once the behavior you want shows, you reward it until the connection is made, then you reward randomly - that's what worm hunting would be. Rapid rewards right from the beginning, but gradually getting spaced further apart as the remaining worms hide as best they can.

According to some rather quick and unsatisfactory research into the different types of worms you mentioned, more than one article referenced the idea that California worms don't have a sense of self-survival, but the other worms do. And that worms that aren't suited to a given area will leave as quickly as possible. It seems that all three types of worms would do equally well for you, assuming the chicks don't eat them all immediately.

Matt McSpadden wrote:Hi Bogdan,
My only worry with your worm idea is that the chickens might like it too much. In a small limited area, they might eat all the worms before the worms can do much processing.

I agree, you need to keep the worms separate from the bedding.

Today, when I was changing the water, I noticed the heat from the bedding, checked and indeed the temperature rose sharply.  Tomorrow I will turn off the red heating lamp.

I turned off the heating lamp, only the lighting lamp works.  Several hours have passed and the chicks are doing well and are not huddling together.  began preparing the chicken coop and area for chickens to walk.  A hole has been dug under the chicken coop, thick branches will be laid in it to ensure aeration, then straw and sawdust with wood chips.  The walls and roof will be made of OSB, insulated on the outside with 3 cm of polystyrene foam and covered with a wind barrier, on top of the roof there will be polyethylene and on top of the polyethylene there will be reeds or reeds.  In the future I will plant grapes.  When I bring firewood this year, I will have a lot of oak trimmings from which I will make the facade.  In front there will be a door with a window from a car) on the territory of the corral, hills have been made and persimmons will be planted on them.  I will plant bamboo along the fence and a concrete foundation will serve as a barrier on one side.  The blackberry trellis posts will be used as supports for the plastic mesh fence.  The blackberries have already been transplanted to the outside.  There is a buried concrete ring near the chicken coop that can be used as a reservoir until I figure out what to do with it.  A pond for chickens is not needed, maybe to collect rainwater.

received the eggs, connected the humidifier, installed the application on the smartphone, the process started.

The chicks feel good, only one has poor coordination.

The chicks look great! I hope you have wonderful luck with the incubator. I'm having good times and bad times with my incubator, but that seems to be part of the learning experience.

It looks like all of the chicks have feathered out well. They must be thinking about flying and probably trying to cause trouble somewhere. They look like the stage I call "teenagers" where they are young, strong, and don't want to be told what to do.
I wish you luck and a lot of patience to get through the next few weeks!

Kristine Keeney wrote:The chicks look great! I hope you have wonderful luck with the incubator. I'm having good times and bad times with my incubator, but that seems to be part of the learning experience.

It looks like all of the chicks have feathered out well. They must be thinking about flying and probably trying to cause trouble somewhere. They look like the stage I call "teenagers" where they are young, strong, and don't want to be told what to do.
I wish you luck and a lot of patience to get through the next few weeks!

Thank you, the chickens really already want to fly, today the rains have stopped and we need to set up the chicken coop in relation to the incubator, so far everything is fine and the automatic fog humidification works very conveniently.  Starting today, I started airing for 10 minutes 2 times a day and lowered the temperature from 38 to 37.8 and the humidity from 65 to 55, opened one small plug to allow oxygen to enter.  Due to the fact that ventilation is a very important step, the choice in favor of an incubator with automatic humidification was confirmed.

bogdan smith wrote:... Now I will look for chickens with the biggest eggs)

I somehow missed that comment. I believe they call the chickens with the biggest eggs, ostriches ;) Haha

Sorry, I couldn't resist a joke :)

Matt McSpadden wrote:

bogdan smith wrote:... Now I will look for chickens with the biggest eggs)

I somehow missed that comment. I believe they call the chickens with the biggest eggs, ostriches ;) Haha

Sorry, I couldn't resist a joke :)

wait for the next topic Ostriches in the basement))))))))) Considering that the ancestors of chickens are dinosaurs, and the rapid development of genetic engineering, I think we shouldn’t stop at ostriches))))