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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I had an americauna hen go missing and finally found her nest outside in my terracing. She had layed 13 eggs!! We now have 11 little americauna chicks. I had had broodys hatch out 11 prior so I was done with chicks for this year, but I guess she had other plans!!
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    this is a boy right?

    I agree now!!
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    Is my EE a rooster?

    I would say definitely a cockerel based on the down turned tail and the upright stance. JMO!
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    this is a boy right?

    Okay, my opinion would be that it's a pullet. I have a little 9 week Ameraucana that has a larger, redder comb than that one and the colors just don't fit a cockerel. JMO!! ;)
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    What gender are these three mutts?

    That is funny that you just updated because I was going to say they all looked like cockerels until I saw the date and then read to the end to see every one elses opinions. :) Sorry they all ended up being boys. BTW...I was basing my decision on the fact that they all appeared to have down...
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    Mean Momma

    Yesterday my Buff Brahma Bantam attacked her almost 2 week old chick. She hatched this chick out but I noticed that whenever the baby would start peeping she would freak out and act like her baby was a predator. For the most part she was a really good momma except when baby started peeping...
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I currently have 3 mommas with chicks, 2 sitting on eggs and 7 more broody! I'm done with babies after the ones hatch. I need to break some broodys as they are taking up the majority of my nest boxes. My mommas have their chicks with the rest of the flock and the other hens are awesome with...
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    We've got peeping and pipping

    I have 3 chicks that have hatched this morning, 3 eggs pipped, and 2 eggs still hanging in there. I'm incubating under a broody hen and we weren't due until tomorrow so, pleasant surprise for me this morning!! :)
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    Broody hatching and broken egg HELP!!!

    If I would have known yesterday what I know today, I would have helped it out. This morning it was shrink wrapped but had pipped through the membrane. Unfortunately it was dead. The other chick was also pipped through the membrane and was also shrink wrapped so I just pulled the membrane back...
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    We've got peeping and pipping

    Yay!!! Good luck!
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    Broody hatching and broken egg HELP!!!

    No one has had experience with this!?! I just checked and the chick that's in the shell that is the most crushed is still alive but the membrane is starting to shrink in. It appears that the hen must be crushing it more because it's really broken now. I know I should just let nature run its...
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    Broody hatching and broken egg HELP!!!

    We are on day 19. I guess I was just worried about the membrane drying out??? It looks like there is another egg that is cracked, although not as bad, and I can also hear the chick in it, too. Hopefully that one will just get it a little easier when it pips. :)
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    Broody hatching and broken egg HELP!!!

    I was just out in the coop checking on my broody's and one of the hens has an egg under her that appears to have been stepped on by her. The membrane is not broken and I can hear the baby cheeping inside. What do I do????
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    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Some broody's are just homicidal. I wouldn't let that hen hatch out any eggs again because chances are very good that she'll kill the babies again. I have 2 broody's right now and they are in my nest boxes in the main coop. I just set a rabbit hutch on the bottom nest box and a pet carrier on...
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    March hatch along

    I had my first egg hatch this morning and the other one is peeping at me!! They are under a broody hen.
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