Yes. Plumbers Tape. (An electric heat line, you attach/tape to the pipe).
(I’ve used below soil in raised beds along w/upper cover and grown some fun stuff in winter)
Well… sad update…. She was out and about having a good day yesterday…decided she Was Not broody... BUT she just didn’t make it. I found she died in her sleep in the hen house.😕
I think she was older than they told me- her legs looked a different color. Anyway- I’ll blame the heat combined...
Or maaaybe the place I got them fibbed a little- they are kinda different colors. And … the 2 sweet ones are more red (as RIs). These other 3?? Pft. Maybe they ARE possessed. 😳 Not too sweet.
Naaaaa! I know all the anti-skinwalker tricks. I watch Dr Taylor every week!!! 🤣🤣. Tonight… at twilight; I am having a Drum Circle to break the skinwalker ‘walk-in’ … just in case. 😉🥁🪘
Long story I’ll try to make it short: my five production Reds free range in the afternoons. One was missing when I put them up -thorough search twice by me, two more times by a friend -no chicken.
Good news: she’s back this morning, but acting weird. She doesn’t seem injured and can get up...
After the 'pip', the next thing to happen is the chick makes a circle of breakthroughs all around the end of the egg. I believe that is what is referred to as 'zip' ping.. lol
I just had a lone egg hatch last night around dusk. I even saw a little bloody-ish liquid drop from the pip and...
Could you elaborate, please?
The earliest I can put the chick under her is tomorrow night. That would be day 5 broody.
Chick will only be 3 days old.
(The eggs she is sitting on 3 days are most likely NOT fertile... long story, so No Loss There.) :)
Thanks .
(All Silkies):
Chick hatched 15 hours ago and it's looking like an 'only'.
Unrelated Hen went broody 3 days ago and is now sitting on what is Probably unfertilized eggs. (Rooster young, and 15 other eggs didn't develop!)
If I candle eggs tonight, and discover no development veins and I...
Well...I ultimately had to get incubators..lol. MEANWHILE.. Miss Silkie Pants finally went broody 2 days ago...and I'm watching an eg hatch in incubator. Lol. (I poked 5 eggs under her so we'll see)
Just fyi...turned out to be fine. I think it was just her bedtime. Once I finally ushered her to tge coop..she went straight to her sleep spot with another hen.