SO Sunday, my very first broody hen who has been sitting on 5-20eggs for the last SIX Weeks without getting up hatched a baby chick. She then promptly got off the eggs for most of hte day.
I left them in there, and ran to a nearby farm and grabbed 2 more chicks about 1 day old so that she had...
oh yeah thats pretty bad lol :( sorry
sucks. I needed at least 2 hens :(
I think I had them too, but the BLUE chicken DIED.
it wasnt ever right or feisty... not quite sure what happened there ...
Uh oh.... I had 20 eggs with a bad hatch so only 4 hatched....
Can you help determine gender? They are 7 weeks today. Thank you so much!
Chick 1
Chick 2
Chick 3 maybe a bam as it is blue
And... Chick 4
I have these four, not sure if there are roosters? I think the black one is a blue americauna but I tossed the egg before reading the shell :( if not then maybe a rooster since its black? I hatched ee's and I thought one of the six bams hatched but again I could be wrong!
What do you think?
Aww so cute! I am sad about the hatch. I should've just hatched my barnyard mutts but.... Anyway, lucky that I am traveling for work this week or I would be tempted to fill the brooder at tractor supply!
I had one last night that took 7 hours to hatch! IN the time from when she pipped to hatch, i hatched a whole different chick.
I dont think my BAM's are going to hatch :(
4 out, 1 pipped. I moved the chicks to the brooder since one of them had been in there for 28 hours or so. I have one pipped. I didn't lose any humidity in fact, it's still quite high at 73%. I also took the dead one out. All 4 are Easter eggers, one blue americauna is pipped. Maybe today will...
Three ee's out, one pipped, one dead. None of my blue americanas have pipped yet. All ee! Interesting! Sad that I lost one but glad that the little dude that hatched this morning has friends. He was actually helping the other two out of the shells. Hard to tell what will happen since candling...
This is day 20 for us too and still only one out, one dead, and one pipped. I set 14 so boo. I got them from my pet chicken. I know shipped eggs don't do as well but I am hoping for at least a 50% hatch. I also put 2 ee x Jg cross in there from my flock. I am pretty nervous right now that I...
ok well still just one out, one of the pipped eggs zipped and then I think it died :( but we will see. I have no other activity. If I end up with one chick, it will be super sad. Also with my luck, it will be a rooster.