jessejeanne
Chirping
- Apr 28, 2023
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Hi everyone!
This is just a story-thread, which may be kind of interesting, or at least it is for me.
I got my chickens in Sep 2022, one became broody my March 2023. I had zero experience with a broody chicken and with all the different opinions about literally EVERYTHING on the internet, I didn’t know what to do at all.
I checked the eggs after two weeks and there was movement in each of them, 8 eggs in total! Sadly, because I had no knowledge, I noticed some were younger then the others and only after I noticed, I started marking the eggs. Don’t ask me why I didn’t do it earlier; I had read so many different things that I thought it was better to leave it all alone.
Another week passed… no chicken hatched. But I still saw veins. My hen was sitting on the eggs now for 21 days. It was extremely cold were I live and since she is a bantam and didn’t eat the first week (i tried to make her eat and it didn’t work), i figured out the babies were maybe just growing slower because of low temperatures.
Which I now know, isn’t ideal.
ANYWAYS. A total of 24 days passed… nothing.
28 days passed.
One hatched. The next day, two others hatched! My hen left the nest, leaving me with the other eggs who were still in need of a broody hen… I had no incubator, some people told me to just throw them away… so I tried to do everything I could, none of the eggs made it. One was shrinkwrapped and the others died. I’ve never felt so horrible in all my life.
We lost one of the hatched ones due a crow, but the other two are still alive and well!
We are one year further now, and had two other hatches as well!
With just 2 baby chicks both times xD
After all the tears I shed the first time, I am happy the other two ones were more succesfull hatches and I had so much support from strangers, but deep in my heart, I still sometimes cry, thinking about those baby chickens who could’ve lived if I did it differently.
Now, I have a broody chicken again! She isn’t a bantam and has 8 eggs under her. I’m hoping this will end better
I just wanted to share this story! Having baby chicks hatching after 28 days was kinda crazy haha.
This is just a story-thread, which may be kind of interesting, or at least it is for me.
I got my chickens in Sep 2022, one became broody my March 2023. I had zero experience with a broody chicken and with all the different opinions about literally EVERYTHING on the internet, I didn’t know what to do at all.
I checked the eggs after two weeks and there was movement in each of them, 8 eggs in total! Sadly, because I had no knowledge, I noticed some were younger then the others and only after I noticed, I started marking the eggs. Don’t ask me why I didn’t do it earlier; I had read so many different things that I thought it was better to leave it all alone.
Another week passed… no chicken hatched. But I still saw veins. My hen was sitting on the eggs now for 21 days. It was extremely cold were I live and since she is a bantam and didn’t eat the first week (i tried to make her eat and it didn’t work), i figured out the babies were maybe just growing slower because of low temperatures.
Which I now know, isn’t ideal.
ANYWAYS. A total of 24 days passed… nothing.
28 days passed.
One hatched. The next day, two others hatched! My hen left the nest, leaving me with the other eggs who were still in need of a broody hen… I had no incubator, some people told me to just throw them away… so I tried to do everything I could, none of the eggs made it. One was shrinkwrapped and the others died. I’ve never felt so horrible in all my life.
We lost one of the hatched ones due a crow, but the other two are still alive and well!
We are one year further now, and had two other hatches as well!
With just 2 baby chicks both times xD
After all the tears I shed the first time, I am happy the other two ones were more succesfull hatches and I had so much support from strangers, but deep in my heart, I still sometimes cry, thinking about those baby chickens who could’ve lived if I did it differently.
Now, I have a broody chicken again! She isn’t a bantam and has 8 eggs under her. I’m hoping this will end better
I just wanted to share this story! Having baby chicks hatching after 28 days was kinda crazy haha.
