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They’re mesmerizing! 🤩

One of the remaining 5 hatched under the momma overnight after last update. Momma left it instantly in the morning. So we put the runt with her in the brooder until they were both strong enough to join the day run with their hatch mates. Then after the 4 eggs were moved to my other broody bird...

I’m allowing her to sit on them at night in the brooder- she accepted all 5. Hopefully it maintains somewhat of a bond of protection for when they join the older birds. No more hatches from the left 4 eggs that I put under our other broody bird. I’m not good at candling. Not sure what I’m...

I put remaining 4 eggs under another broody bird whose only been sitting around 7 days. I marked them so will take them by Saturday if not hatched. I will try to take them once fluffy so momma#2 doesn’t abandon her own eggs. I’ll move those babies to the brooder with heat lamp with the one who...

A friend said momma and babies needed more space. I’ve got them in a set up for during day but I’m confident heat lamp isn’t warm enough for today’s hatchling. Friend then recommended I put today’s chick and eggs under heat lamp back in brooder but I’m afraid to separate mom and baby although...

It hatched!! She’s tiny. momma isn’t being careful around her. She’s gotten rolled once in the five minutes I’ve been standing here while momma is trying to show others how to scratch. I’ve got the heat lamp directly over babies and eggs in the corner out of mommas way for now.

That means I’d be buying an incubator (I’ve asked locally and no one has an empty one) and a second brooder. No, I can’t do that. Momma was still sitting on them when I left the house to take my children to an appointment. We will be back in a couple hours and I’ll assess.

This momma and her 4 chicks and 5 eggs are in a brooder set up. Momma had been picked on while sitting in the coop. A chunk of her comb was taken off. Even through that she refused to leave her nest so I thought it would be best to move her. The coop she was in was 86in long by 48 wide and 48...

I have a heat lamp. The eggs stayed under it while mom wouldn’t sit. Does the box need to be wood? I turned the lamp off at 7 when it was getting dark. Momma quickly went back to eggs and babies are under her with eggs. Hoping the fact the babies need warmth will keep her sitting.

I’m afraid that’s what happening. She hasn’t done much sitting the last 5 hours and she isn’t being gentle around the eggs. The one that is hatching- should I do something specific? I can see it’s beak from outside. Other eggs don’t have any visible signs on hatching. The hole is about the size...

The oldest is 5 days old today.

Yes, one of the recently hatched chicks was pecking the pipped spot on a hatching shell. I’m worried about the difference between hatch dates. Will the older babies hurt the new hatchling?

I just saw a chick peck at the pipped egg!! Is this bad? The mom is still sitting but had gotten up to eat with the chicks. She isn’t being as careful around the eggs though.

We lost the cord! We just have this separate brooder station where we have the momma on her nest. Half have hatched. Still waiting on the last 5. Giving them until Saturday as the momma was adding eggs to her nest for several days after we noticed her broody. It has a smell but I don’t think it...

So I went to let momma off her nest to potty in the yard and I noticed one is pipping but one has a green spot…is it rotting? .

I will candle again tomorrow and have my daughter help me get pictures. Will it hurt to keep candling?

It’s been 3 days since first hatch. Had 1 the second day and 2 on the third day.

She’s still sitting on them. She’s on her nest in a separate little coop with her babies.

Okay so I candled (to my best ability) the remaining 5 eggs that haven’t hatched yet. They’re due to be hatched within the next few days. In 4 of them it was like 3/4 of the egg was “dark” and the light only illuminated through the bottom 1/4. I didn’t see any red streaks or rings or anything...

I’ll candle the second broody bird. Far too late for our first one! A month from beginning of sitting?