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    3 broodys on one clutch?

    Update! Sorry it has taken me so long! When each of the incubator babies hatched a few days apart, we put them under the most recent mama (one at a time on different days) in the evening when she went to roost and she adopted all three of them just fine! 🙌 Everyone is doing great! And it is so...
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    3 broodys on one clutch?

    Aw. That’s not good news. ☹️
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    3 broodys on one clutch?

    Update! Found 3 hatched chicks and 3 unhatched eggs under the 2nd mama yesterday. She kept leaving the unhatched eggs so I put them in the cheapie incubator we were gifted. I don’t know where they are in their development exactly so I am just going to try to put them in lockdown mode I...
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    Homeschool Grow-Along

    Update! The flock has officially procreated! We woke up to 3 chicks on Wednesday morning (out of 6 eggs)! So cuteeee!! Meet Boba, Butters, and Baby Linky!! (Linky named after my son’s favorite chick which turned out to be a rooster we had to get rid of and he was devastated - remember? 😭)...
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    3 broodys on one clutch?

    Update! We woke up to 3 chicks on Wednesday morning (out of 6 eggs)! So cuteeee!! Meet Boba, Butters, and Baby Linky!! (Linky named after my son’s favorite chick which turned out to be a rooster we had to get rid of and he was devastated 😭). I was so nervous about the flock’s possible...
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    3 broodys on one clutch?

    Thank you so much! The hen in the bucket ended up getting confused a couple times already and jumping in the first hen’s nest again. So I ended up moving that second clutch into the old coop/broody jail with the two other broodies. I figure they can share that one for now and see if they can...
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    Homeschool Grow-Along

    Well these chicks are now starting to have chicks of their own! First batch should be hatching within a week! https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/3-broodys-on-one-clutch.1676702/ We kept Cloudy as our rooster (white silkie) so all the chicks will be “partly cloudy” ⛅️ lol. 😜 I’m so...
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    Silkie head twitching/swaying off and on since a chick

    Update - he’s still got the tick but he’s doing fine! Some hens are sitting on some of his eggs right now and I’m curious to see if any of his progeny ends up with this strange tick! We just call him our “funky chicken”. 😅
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    3 broodys on one clutch?

    Update! I candled the eggs. 6 are far along, and 5 I thought stopped developing but I candled them again and one of the embryos was moving! So, that means a staggered hatch, right? 🤦‍♀️ So, I put those 5 not-so-developed eggs into the bucket with the lip on the ground and put one of the other...
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    3 broodys on one clutch?

    Thank you Ridgerunner! That’s very good to know! I won’t move her then! Should I still candle them or just let them be? I have no idea if they are all viable or not.
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    3 broodys on one clutch?

    Thank you so so much for all your help! I have put the perch up on the nesting box that I think might work as a lip to help keep eggs in. I read that water and ice are not good to use and to put them in broody jail instead. 🤷🏼‍♀️ So I put two of the broodies in the run part of our old coop on...
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    3 broodys on one clutch?

    This is my first time having a rooster. We have six hens. One hen became broody and started laying on a clutch a couple weeks ago and now it seems like 2 more have become broody and they are all squeezing into the nesting box to sit on that same clutch. Is this normal? Unfortunately, I started...
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    Silkie head twitching/swaying off and on since a chick

    So it has been three weeks of Vitamin E and B Complex with occasional eggs and collards for selenium. And no change. 😕 Still not sure what this nervous tick is.
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    Silkie head twitching/swaying off and on since a chick

    Thank you! Yes I can’t tell if it’s a neurological tick or caused by a vitamin deficiency or something. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I will do the vitamins for another 10 days and if there’s no change (that would be 3 weeks of those vitamins) should I assume it’s neurological and not harmful?
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    Silkie head twitching/swaying off and on since a chick

    Finally got another video! The twitching is often but intermittent.
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