I'll join the party super late!!
My salmon faverolle, Floris, has been going broody with a VENGEANCE off and on ever since she laid her first egg. It's extremely hard to get her to think of anything else when she goes broody, and can often take weeks to break her, so I finally relented and grabbed half a dozen eggs from a friend whose hens run with roosters.
All six were developing great, but a couple days ago, one of the eggs got cracked and the hens ate it.
HOWEVER,
the other 5 are starting to hatch today!!
They're a bit earlier than expected--this is day 19 or 20, depending on your opinion--but I'm SO EXCITED. Three of them are pipping. No action from the other two just yet, but I candled them for the last time two days ago, and they all looked very promising.
This is my FIRST TIME EVER hatching babies, and I'm way more excited than I thought I would be. Floris is excited too! She's been a very, very dutiful brood, so I hope she makes an equally great mom. I know that at least of the couple of the eggs are from Easter Eggers (they're blue), but the others are a mystery to me, and there were multiple breeds of roosters running about, so who knows what I'll end up with! Hopefully some girls.
I'll have pics as soon as the babies hatch and I can safely get a photo. For now, Floris is on lockdown.
Congrats. Sounds like fun! Welcome to the thread.