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Kmac - Sometimes we just need more land so we have less neighbors (or at least more distant ones)

@Sally Sunshine Our 1st broody hatched 5/6 yesterday. We looked at the 6th egg- looks like died in she'll. smelled horrible. Put it in the trap and caught a coon overnight, so put to good use. We grafted 4 blue andalusians on her last night- currently appears to be successful. We are...

PD- thAnks for the picture. Very helpful

Thanks. What do your pens look like? How big are they? We are set up with a couple large fenced yards for free-ranging with a few coops with communal nesting boxes. One small coop works well for one broody-it has a good size run attached to it as well. The only other area I can easily convert...

I have a broody hen that was sitting on eggs for 1 week. She got out of the broody coop/pen today (not sure how or for how long)- but she could not get back in. Eggs were at ambient temperature (70s) when I got home. When I put her back in the enclosure she went right back to the eggs. Not...

Oops- I skimmed right past it, already on the list

Sally, you can add the teacup for spraddle leg, or Coban

Happy to report the chicks from the Easter Hatch-a-long are all thriving. Should sell them as I don't need any more- but I am happy to have finally gotten things 95% right with so little effort. Thanks for the knowledge- duplicate/appropropriately calibrated monitors and ventilation make a HUGE...

I'll only check if she leaves the nest. I had a broody last year and it was a mess. Several eggs cracked and made a mess. Two hatched. We grafted a few more chicks on the hen... And then a raccoon got all the chicks and watching poor mama search for the young was the saddest sight ever

Thanks. I'll leave her alone

My broody seems to be doing well. Do you try to candle eggs under Broody hens, or just let nature run its course?

My welsummer lays a darker egg than my Barnvelder

And a picture of the cuties!

All 11 that made it to lockdown are hatched and hyper!

Yay! All 11 eggs that made it into lockdown hatched! :weee

Back from my bike ride, run & yoga... Now have 6 chicks. First time ever I've had them dry in the incubater - in the past my humidity was too high. Just a few eggs to go - but they have a while yet.

Woke up to find one out! 7 more pipped- one starting to unzip. 3 standing by. :pop

Easter hatch doing well. 11 eggs in lockdown. 5 are currently pipped. Also have a broody hen- have 7 eggs under her now. This is the hen with a previous eye injury- she's been in a nesting box going on a couple weeks, but not sitting on eggs. She stayed on fake eggs yesterday night, so we put...

11 made it to lockdown. 5 are currently pipped. Finally have the humidity right! Eggs did well when I left town. Also set 7 eggs today under a broody... Not the brightest of all chickens though... Almost doubtful she'll make it through

Sally - you are so fast! I just set eggs and tried to find the right place to update the set number of eggs on the Easter Hatch-a-long to see my number already there. Thank you!