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We've got 10 babies! The last one just kicked the remnants of its shell off. Here's hoping the two newest ones dry off and get on their feet soon. Thankfully it's about 85F here, so no worries about them getting too cold. Thanks for following along everyone. Even though we lost the first two, we...

7 happy little babies this morning. Not sure of the status of the other three eggs yet. Mama broke up some grubs for them and showed them how to get water.

We've got 7 live chicks and the other three eggs are trying to hatch! I am going to see what state the eggs are in at bedtime and either move the whole brood and carefully move the eggs with them or I will have to relegate the other 9 chickens to a 4 chicken capacity coop. They won't be happy...

This morning I stapled up some plastic "netting" over the coop entrance and left Cho with food and water by herself in the coop. I am praying the other eggs will hatch and we'll get some chicks. I've learned some hard lessons in this process! 1. Move her to the new coop BEFORE getting eggs. 2...

I made the mistake of propping both side coop doors open while we went out for a couple of hours. Cho managed to get out the one door into the run but couldn't get back in. When we got back, both hatching chicks were dead. The one that had already hatched would have been fine had she been...

Here's the bloody egg situation...

So it's about 83 in the coop. It's not super sunny today, I think that's helping.

Yep, what's highest temp that's safe

There's a vent high in the back and there's some cracks (1/2" maybe) at the top and bottom of the auto door. It's a producers pride defender coop.

Thank you for the advice! I definitely want to just let nature take its course, but I also want to try to keep an eye and help if it's absolutely needed and certainly to prevent an unnecessary tragedies caused by the other brats! Hahaha One last question... The high today is 80F, think it's...

Do I need to worry about the other chickens? I tried moving the broody hen to a new coop a few days ago but she refused to sit on the eggs so I moved them back to the main coop. When I went out again today, she was again off the nest (starting to question her mothering skills! 🤣) and one of the...

Day 21 Went out this morning and mama was off the nest (12 eggs). 3 eggs were cracked, one significantly so. I wasn't expecting this yet it's technically day 20 of her sitting on them, and I panicked a little, thinking the other hens had trampled them, especially since she wasn't sitting on...

I have 12 eggs under a broody EE. They should hatch around July 22. I got a temp coop to put them in that's lower to the ground. This is my first time letting a hen raise chicks, exclusively outside.