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I'll try to candle, but they're dark eggs, they're hard to see anything.

I'll leave them another day or two. I don't expect them to hatch at this point, but maybe?

I thought about getting her some newly hatched chicks to put under her, but I think I'm going to try to break her of it, at this point. I'll candle them, but all three of the eggs are pretty dark colored eggs. I haven't been very successful at seeing anything when I try to candle the dark ones...

Ok, I'll try to make this brief, I had a broody (Lady Bird) who successfully hatched 5 chicks out of 7 eggs (6 hatched, we lost one baby after one week). She's busy being a great mom. While she was broody our chicken Ginger decided she wanted to be a mom too. SOO for about a week she sat on a...

The same brand makes a crumble starter. I can just get that. When they're bigger they'll be in the yard with the rest of the flock. The rest of the flock spends the day foraging in my yard as well. I feed them the layer version of this brand in their feeders, but they also forage all day and...

This is what I have. It says from day 1 on...I thought it would be ok, since I've been feeding my chickens the layer version of this food for the past two years, but I can get the crumbles later on today. I don't mind.

ok, I'll have to get them the crumbles. The scratch is supposed to be chick starter scratch. It's basically chopped up version of the layer feed, I didn't know. According to the bag it's for chicks. I'll go to the feed store later and get them crumbles instead.

Just wanted to give a quick update. When I went out during my lunch break yesterday to check on her, she immediately ran out of the coop when she heard me coming. She seemed a little panicked. So I looked in, and saw the egg that I know was trying to hatch on Wednesday afternoon, in the same...

Thank you, I'm going to move her to the other area that I have prepped for her and the babies today. This morning my son and I went out to check on her and there was a baby out of the nest laying there like it had been out for a while. I quickly stuck it back under her. I'll check later on my...

That last egg, I added only about 24 hours after her other eggs, they just hatched a day earlier than I expected...I'm hoping maybe I was off with my timeline and I'm hoping it hatches today. I didn't move her last night, I prepped the space to move her and the babies and decided after reading...

My favorite girl, Lady Bird has been sitting on eggs for her first time and they have been hatching today! My question is, can I move her to a separate space that I have prepared for her? They hatched a day earlier than I expected. I wasn't quite ready to move her until this afternoon. All but...

question, When we've hatched her mom, and our other chickens, in an incubator (two different times) in the past couple years they pretty much start eating and drinking water right away. This is my first time with a broody hatching babies. She hasn't moved off of them since they've been...

She's very annoyed because I keep trying to look and see how many babies are under her. I just gave her some water, she was really appreciative. I'm trying to set up an area to put her and the babies and it's quite warm here today.

So far the only baby I can take a picture of. This little one has been out front and center each time I look.

I went out this morning to check on the broody girls. Lady bird was acting a little different, then I peeked under her (as much as I could anyway) and I saw two babies!!! I don't know if there are any more yet, but I wasn't expecting them unitil tomorrow or the next day, so I was surprised to...