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I too have a Great Dane helper though she hasn't graduated to telling me when eggs are hatching yet!

It's definitely a fresh egg, perfectly clean. It's too far from the nest to have rolled out and I candled it later that night to double check, nothing in there. I thought it was a bit odd too considering they're both so far into brooding. And honestly, the longer they've been brooding the...

I haven't had any eggs explode under my girls this year, however, I am having another dilemma. Both girls are sitting on nests with about a week and a half to their hatch dates. But yesterday out of the blue I found an egg out laying on the ground near their swimming pool. I check their...

I agree with everyone that researching the breeds you're drawn to is a good start. I'm in Michigan and winters here can be very close to those in Alaska. I never would've expected my sebbies to be so cold tolerant, particularly after everyone was quick to point out that their curly feathers...

I agree, this is the new term! I'm going to be using it from now on!

The eggs in the incubator are still going strong too. Since this is the first batch in the homemade cooler incubator I've been worried the whole time (who am I kidding? I would've been worried the whole time even if it was the most expensive incubator on the market.). Right now I'm counting...

I have two first years brooding right now. One is a very dedicated mommy and rarely leaves the nest and when she does it is like clockwork, she has a schedule in her head and she's sticking to it. The other not so much. She randomly wanders throughout the day though she does remember to cover...

It has been 2 weeks for the eggs in the incubator and I just candled my eggs again and all are still coming along! Those in the incubator as well as those my girls are sitting on means I'm going to have quite the hatch this year. Even with the expansion of my flock this means I will still have...

Excited to have another Sebbie breeder with eggs in the incubator!

I found that with my girls this year they didn't get off the nest for the first couple of days unless I picked them up and made them go outside to get some exercise and food and water. I covered the eggs for them and they didn't seem to mind the time away. After the first couple of days they...

I thought it would be interesting to see how everyone handles their broody girls. Do you try to keep them from going broody or do you hope they do? Do you have problems with them failing to leave the nest and how do you handle it? What other topics do you think we can come up with? I'm...

I wish I had known my girls would have a magic number of 2 ahead of time! They started sitting immediately, though they did lay more eggs and are up to the 5 or so each they're currently sitting on. They started about 5 days after I started up the incubator so now it's a race between me and...

Hi everyone, I'm excited we have a goose hatch-a-long going. I'm a mommy to a trio of Sebastopols: Xander, Petunia, and Phoebe. Since searching high and low for them last year you could say I've gone a little goose-obsessed. My geese started laying very early this year, particularly for...