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    Putting soon to hatch eggs under broody?

    One could also ask questions instead of making assumptions :)
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    Putting soon to hatch eggs under broody?

    I live in coastal Georgia. Our weather at the time they hatched was no where near freezing.
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    Putting soon to hatch eggs under broody?

    It was at least a couple weeks of her being broody. She hatched them just fine, it was the actual caring for them that she couldn't manage
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    Putting soon to hatch eggs under broody?

    She did accept them. Unfortunately she just was not good at caring for them. Lost most of them in the first couple days
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    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    Unfortunately not. I can't have roosters in city limits. These are the babies from the eggs I ordered. It it either a svarthona or a fibrorudd. I wish I could get some babies from her. She is so unique looking
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    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    As far as I know. She was given to me a few months ago with some other hens. They were apparently free ranged in a large flock.
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    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    Looks like they hatched last night or this morning. One failed to make it out of the egg, two others didn't pip. Went into the pen and looked around found two babies that had gotten lost. Put them back with mama Weirdo.
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    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    Haven't kept up with the thread, sorry. I candled last week after two eggs went bad (1 zombie, 1 fibrorudd) and two of the mosaics didn't develop, as well as the cracked svarthona died. The rest seem to be doing well. I have a hen who went broody so I put the eggs under her so she can raise...
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    Putting soon to hatch eggs under broody?

    I took out all the other eggs from under her and replaced them with the eggs that should hatch day after tomorrow. 🤞 She growled and gave me some good pecks when putting the new eggs in.
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    Putting soon to hatch eggs under broody?

    I've been incubating some eggs and they are due to hatch in a few days. My silkie mix has gone broody all of a sudden. I had the idea of putting my incubator eggs under her and letting her raise the chicks. What are the odds that she would accept them?
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    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    It's really hard to see but here is some veining on the cracked one. I can also see movement in it.
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    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    All the eggs are only on day 5. Still got a long way to go
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    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    Haven't been here in a few days and had to catch up on the thread. I spot candled a few of my eggs Friday afternoon, just to see if I could see anything developing. Definitely saw veins on the cracked one, but my mosaics don't appear to be developing. I'll give it a few more days before checking...
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    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    So far so good. Yeah, I'm leaving it be for now. Giving it some time to see if it will even start developing
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    BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

    That is a good point I hadn't thought about. I wonder if just leaving it as is would be okay
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