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I guess it caught me by surprise! I don't have anything ready for a nest. The egg has rolled and is almost under the fence. My question is, Do I put something together in there now? Do I move that egg? Will she lay in the same spot? I understand they don't sit until a clutch is layed...

I bought some baby chicks at tractor supply . It was supposed to be a Buff Orpington but evidently it is not.

I bought this guy and 4 girls and for the life of me, can't remember what the lady said they were.

I bought 6 buff orpingtons, one silkie, last week, all supposedly already laying. They are in the coop with my 4 buff babies and 3 silver laced Wyandotte girls who are about 8 weeks So far, not an egg seen! I know just the stress of moving and new coop mates can slow egg production. How...

And I got so excited I posted on the wrong thread! I love chicks! Liable to be a sleepless night for me and my grandson!

Sitting here in the dining room and I just heard a chirp....I have one egg pipped that I can see! Liable to be a long sleepless night for me and my grandson!!

I put 31 eggs in the incubator this afternoon. I hope I will soon have a bunch of EE's and leghorns running around! I haven't used an incubator in about 2 years so I hope everything goes well!

I haven't hatched anything in about 2 years. Daughter and I decided it is time again though. I have a LG, bought a fan kit and installed it. Temp has been at 99 for 2 days, humidity is 28% on one hygrometer and 30% on the other, In the past I had fairly good hatch rates with a still air.

The grandson left the gate unlatched this morning and Mr. and Mrs. Clucker got out., The great pyreneese/lab mix got her down and stripped her of a few feathers before she was able to get away. She crawled off into an old tomato cage that was covered in vines...We squished the ends, pulled it...

We lost all our babies in a storm a couple of years ago...it took my coop and all. It really broke my heart and I couldn't replace them right then. My grandson has now decided to join 4 H so we are back in the chicken and rabbit business. We bought 5 RIR today, 5 Cornish and 5 of something...

I moved 9 eggs to the egg carton last night....candled and that was all I had out of 20...(I had refrigerator eggs in also). Temp was 101 and humidity was 55 when I went to bed. This morning, temp was 95..YIKES! I have it back to 101 now. Hope they survive the Artic chill they had!

I put 7 fresh eggs in the bator midnite on the 5th, along with some that had been refrigerated for about a week. Had the bator fired up for 2 days, temp was steady at 100 and humidity at 48

Thanks to my son and his blasted coon dog....Son left and the dog stayed...he has never tried to get out or anything but for some reason last week we could NOT keep him in the pen. He escaped and wiped out half my flock in one afternoon. He got my game rooster, my BO rooster, and also my last...

I started with 20 eggs and am down to 17....all are mutts, but I like mutts so that is okay. Tomorrow is hatch day but tonite when I got home and peeped in the bator to check my humidity....there is a green egg with a pip. This is my 3rd hatch...or should I say third attempt. The first one...

:(Out into the brooder shed. I am so scared they are going to be cold....although I did put their light in with them. They are in the brooder shed but I left them in their swimming pool. I would have kept them in the house forever but DH said they had to go. Needless to say, he does NOT love...

Just put 13 eggs in the bator......Now starts the hard part....waiting!

One chick hatched out this afternoon and I have 2 more eggs with pips. I can hear peeps from the bator. My temp is holding steady at 100 but all of a sudden my humidity has plummeted from the 60's to the 30's! I have a maxi pad in the bator, it is nice and wet...I also have one well full of...

My broody's (two of them) left their nests 21 days ago. I got their eggs and popped them in the bator, hoping very very hard.... I am not sure how long they had been sitting, several days for sure.... I ws going to chunk eggs today because it has been 21 days in the bator,,,,,who knows how...

How long can a broody be off the nest? My two girls left an hour ago and don't look like they have any plans of going back on. We are on day 12 and day 4....12 eggs. I sure don't want to lose them

I just bought an Accurite Hygrometer and put it in my LG. I have had it in for 3 days....temp shows 106, humidity 35%. I have a plain little thermometer in there (the one that came with the LG) and it says 100 degrees... The humidity has fluctuated from 75% when I first put it in, now down to...