No pics yet but I can tell you that the second chick has fluffed and is blue and redI am going to as papabrooder about the blue and red one since this was from his BBS pen but I am not even a little bit sorry about the coloring!!!
@ronott1 I have heard all kinds of crazy theories for trying to insure more girls than boys. Thanks for your easily understood explanation.
I hesitate to say it b/c she has toyed with me for so long and so many times but it is possible I will have a broody to cover those chicks when they hatch. She is huge and can cover probably 13+ So that is great news!
For anyone who has grafted chicks on to a broody/or left a broody on golf balls longer than a week or so, will she stay?? I always feel like they get more serious when I give them eggs. Like the puff and growl on the golf balls but the pecking starts when they get they eggs. She will be on golf balls for about 3 weeks. If she is still on the nest tomorrow I am tempted to give her a couple of eggs and hope there is a broody to pass them off to when I go pick up the hatch from Ron....am I worrying for nothing? I tend to.
I am glad that the explanation was understandable. I do try to make sense with my posts.
I have a Wheaten Penedesenca that did not want the chicks. She kept screaming at me to get her out of the pet carrier I was trying to use. I will try again with some eggs that I am hatching this week. She may do the same thing--abandon the chicks and either stay broody or go join the flock. I have a Blue Australorp that has stayed on the nest for a week twice this year and then jumps off and quits.Sybil and Elanor both sat on empty nest boxes for 2+ weeks. I gave them each foster chicks in the middle of the night, but Elanor abandoned hers within an hour and went back to roosting with the other girls. Sybil stuck with hers though, and still has three little fluff balls following her around.
Edith and Rosie have now decided they want to sit on empty nests, so I'm going to have to decide what to do with them. They are losing weight, so I should decide soon.
My Blue Barnveldner is the first good broody and good at raising the chicks. You just never know I Guess.