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  1. LadyLuck

    Broody Hen vs artificial incubation

    I'm too inexperienced to have much useful input but would love to ask a question. We seem to have an extremely low hatch rate with our broody hens. I know that part of it is that they aren't in their own coop, they go broody in a nesting box in the main coop and then other hens keep laying...
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    safe to eat eggs when treating for lice?

    I have read through a bunch of old threads and have plenty of ideas now on how to treat for lice. DE, VCO, Poultry Protector, permethrin, etc. what I haven't been able to find is a consensus on a) if I need to not eat eggs for a while, and b) if so, how long? I just found out tonight that...
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    do i intervene?

    oh dear. well, nature knows best. my decision was to put it under mom and see what happened, if she kicked it out or what. I guess it was "or what" came home tonight and went and checked... chick GONE. Of course it is dark so it could be just blending in, but I can't find it with a...
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    do i intervene?

    Ok, I went and looked and put it back under mom. baby has a head, two eyes, beak... the blobby looking thing is it's neck...like an area of neck with no feathers. baby is strong and peeping and wiggling mightily. I'm not ready to put it down just because I don't understand a big bald...
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    do i intervene?

    if chick is normal, does it go back under mom? I don't think it can crawl back up there now, it's in a corner.
  6. LadyLuck

    do i intervene?

    Oh, one more thing, baby has flopped itself to a corner in the nesting box, i don't think it can flop itself back up onto the main nest where mom can sit on it, so if it needs to be under her I will move it, I just need to know. thanks so much.
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    do i intervene?

    I put the baby back under mom. The baby has two eyes, head, beak. the "blob" is a bare area on its neck. I can't determine if it is injured or what. It was peeping and wiggling strongly, so I am not willing to put it down yet. If it appears to be dying or suffering, I will. this picture was...
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    Newbie broody mistake... help me fix it?

    Ya'll seriously, surely snow is approaching a record. It's now been a week since the second baby hatched (two weeks since the first one who disappeared). I intended to take the remaining eggs after just a day or two, but she is FIERCE. Surely she would just abandon them, you know? Nope...
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    Newbie broody mistake... help me fix it?

    so sorry that I posted and then didn't come back! Snow did hatch another egg, we have a happy, healthy peep. I last checked under her on Saturday, and found the peep this evening. Now we still have to figure out what to do with her and the peep (they are in the nesting boxes of the main...
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    Newbie broody mistake... help me fix it?

    Ok, Two girls, Snow and Goldie went broody about the same time. Based on our last experience, we just let them set on their nests in the regular coop and waited to move them until the first babies hatched. (That worked last time, Trying to move mommy and nest gave her great upset, but once the...
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    HELP! Duck has a tick

    the best way I know to remove ticks (how I do it on my kids) is to unscrew them. Use fingers or tweezers (or for the ones too tiny to grasp, I use medical tape folded in half around it so as to make a handle), and turn them around and around a few times. It doesn't seem to matter which way you...
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    any way to figure out parentage?

    our first broody just hatched 3 eggs (not her own). One came out of a brown egg so the mom is one of our red sexlinks. Another came from a blue banty egg, so obviously the mom is one of our little banty mutts (they are small, they have very scant leg feathers, they have cheek fluff like...
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    almost scared to order now...

    thanks to everyone for encouraging me. I plan to order from Metzer because they have the breed I want (Welsh Harlequins)available sexed. I'm just waiting to hear back from one person who is going to split the order with me to confirm her part of the order. I'm excited about adding ducklings...
  14. LadyLuck

    candling ?

    Brood hen hatch, first chick on Saturday, then one on Sunday and another when we woke up Monday. No action since then (now Wednesday morning). Took the remaining eggs up today to candle them. I see solid black with very large air cells on one end, much like day 18 pics on this thread ...
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    candle or leave alone?

    First time hatching here, have a first time broody hen doing it (no incubator), so I know nothing, at least she has instincts. First chick on Saturday, another on Sunday afternoon, and woke up early this morning to a third :-) all very healthy and doing well. There are still 3 eggs in the nest...
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    almost scared to order now...

    came on to the duck forum to do some more reading before placing my duck order tomorrow and I keep reading horror stories about sick and dead ducklings. I've done several batches of chicks and never had any problems at all (although all were bought locally) so I was just assuming that...
  17. LadyLuck

    ? about momma and peeps

    thanks so much. when we checked this morning before church, one egg had a pinhole pip, after church it had made a circle around and you could see in a bit, then when we got home from the inlaws dinner, another whole chick. I'm just giddy. this whole thing is just miraculous. "Momma" is...
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    ? about momma and peeps

    1. Peep #1 hatched today (or last night), the other eggs don't show any signs of pipping. How long do I wait--or how long will she wait? what about food and water for baby while she waits? 2. Also, the other hens do push her out once a day to use that box for laying (I marked the eggs she was...
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    My math was off... babies hatching NOW!

    i hope so too. I never even noticed this one pipping or anything but when I pulled mom of the nest today to take the picture, I did note that none of the others appear to have any action. Since we are letting the hen do it all, I'm not even positive when this one hatched, I believe we last...
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    My math was off... babies hatching NOW!

    I thought we had until Tuesday but I fully realize that I'm guessing at the day when we finally decided to let our broody girl keep some eggs. So.. DD went to get eggs today and viola! broody Mommy Dove and first baby out! DH is now out there working overtime on a mini-coop and...
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