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    Wheaten Marans

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    Wheaten Marans

    Anyone know how to tell if these are roos or pullets yet? They are wheaten and blue marans. Around 3 weeks old..
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I would say the 18th give or take a day?. I counted 21 days from the saturday afternoon I put mine under and they hatched the early morning of saturday exactly 3 weeks later
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Its only full day late from when i set it under her. Butttt the others were a good 12 hours earlier then the time I expected them.
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    She has left the eggs. I took. The one remaining egg with a baby in it and wrapped it in a heating pad on low. I don't kniw what else to do. Moved the mom n babes to their own house so they are safe. Really hoping fir this egg tho. FINGERS CROSSED!
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Also, would it be like the meanest thing ever if I took the 2 away to keep them safe or should I just leave them with her in a separate pen? She has worked so hard to get them I just hate to see anything happen to the only 2babies I got!
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Okay everyone we got our first babies ever! My hen has been sitting on maran eggs and saturday I woke up to 2 live chicks, a black and a blue, and 1 black that didn't make it. He looked perfect so I dk what happened. I had one more to hatch yesterday, but it hasn't yet. Any suggestions on what...
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    September Hatch-A-Long!

    I'm so jealous of all you hatchers! What do you do with all of the chicks you guys hatch? My hubby is being stiff on letting me have an incubator because he knows what comes out of them.. more chickens! LOL! Any suggestions on how to justify MOREEE chickens for me? Apparently eating the eggs and...
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    cracked an egg under my broody :( SOOOO sad.

    I made the choice to let it go. After all I didn't even expect them to get this far. It was an experiment to see if my hen would hatch some eggs that an older feller gave me from his black copper marans. The egg that cracked was from a blue copper which I own 2 blue hens and a splash roo so I...
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    cracked an egg under my broody :( SOOOO sad.

    I think the hen will squish it or I would put it back. Its 9 or 10days and alive....
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    cracked an egg under my broody :( SOOOO sad.

    So do I just set it out to let it go cold to die then? I feel terrible and don't want it to suffer.
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    cracked an egg under my broody :( SOOOO sad.

    So I was trying to place some straw under my broodyand one ofthe eggs rolled and smashed on one side. Its just the hard shell that is smashed, but within minutes the hen rolled it and dented the smashed part in against another egg, but still not breaking any menbrane. I'm pretty sure if I leave...
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    September Hatch-A-Long!

    I think its an Inova. I got it from my uncles stuff when he passed in November. It takes lithium camera batterys, 123 something. I will take a closer look when I get home!
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    September Hatch-A-Long!

    Omg! So I got a super good flashlight today and just went out to my nest of 8 copper marans eggs under my broody and OMG! I CAN SEE THEM DANCING! WHOOOHOOOO! this is my first hatch ever and boy am I sure happy! They look so happy bobbing and dancing around in there! I can't see into the Black...
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    2014 BYC Calendar - Your Pictures Needed!

    Here are my picture submissions for the calendar! My 4 year old Barred Rock "Blossom" working on her first hatch, a brood of Black and Blue Copper Marans! And the egg is from my prize Blue Copper Maran "Bluebell"
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