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    Ew. Chickens throw up

    Needed to share with other chicken people. Chickens can barf. On you. While you try to help them. Hen is fine. I may not be. 🤢
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    Wash? Eggsplosion halfway thru brooding

    I’m already at the “dry layer of grossness “ sadly. Good news is there is no way I’ll break her broodiness. We’re taken to calling momma the Angry Pterodactyl. She’s all in.
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    Wash? Eggsplosion halfway thru brooding

    I have a broody hen under a clutch of eggs at about day 18. An egg broke ( either a quitter or a fresh egg another hen sneaked in and laid) and the developing eggs are filthy and stinky. Do I wash them?
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    Integration when look no touch

    Momma and 2 chicks are 2 weeks old. They hatched in the coop with the rest of my flock of 14, and have been separated from the flock in the same coop and run by some temporary fencing/wiring. When can I take that down?
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    21+ days

    At least 25 days ago
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    21+ days

    24 days minimum since these particular eggs in the incubator were laid.
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    21+ days

    Bump
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    21+ days

    Lolol. Yes. We have a rooster. These are eggs from a staggered hatch that we place in an incubator after the hen abandoned when the first chicks hatched. They were out from mom and into the incubator within hours. Candled and alive ten days ago. Another egg pipped then never zipped and died. 😢
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    21+ days

    How long do you hold out after day 21 for a successful hatch? How do you know to give up?
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    Hen behavior close to hatch

    TWO! There are two little chicks in her nest. They look perfect. 😍 Three eggs left. It’s been 24 hours since the first hatch so I’m looking at a staggered hatch here. When should I pull those eggs to candle for progress/viability?
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    Hen behavior close to hatch

    so the entire front third was open with membrane only. No back side zipping. No idea how chick did that. But she was shrink wrapped in. Cut open the membrane and s/he’s tucked under mama now.
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    Hen behavior close to hatch

    I lifted up my broody and saw two eggs- one has the front cracked up and I hear chirping. I think another has pipped. If only the front is being cracked open by the chick do I worry about the back of the egg? Could I have messed everything up by lifting her up to check on the eggs?
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    Egg candling day 5 - fertile or not?

    None of our cell phone lights were sufficient either. Another vote for a better light source. Then you have an emergency light for your kit anyway.
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    Hen behavior close to hatch

    So antsy!!!!
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    Hen behavior close to hatch

    Both! But she’s acting extra broody the past two days tucked even deeper into the nest, super defensive of her space. Didn’t even let any of the other gals in to lay extra eggs. We’re around day 20, with questionable dates since we got home from vacation to a broody.
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    Hen behavior close to hatch

    Anyone notice changes in a broody’s behavior close to hatch?
  17. chicChickChick

    Chicks due and other hens into nest

    Waiting on chicken in the next 3-5 days. Mama is brooding but other hens come in daily to lay eggs in her nesting box. ( not the other five boxes we have🙄). Any idea what to do? I don’t want to move her whole nest this late in the game, but if I block off her box only, she won’t have food and...
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    Greedy broody

    Not sure at all. Especially now that the barrier is up. My hens sometimes “share” a nesting boxes and squeeze in together. “Mind if I drop off the kid with you and go hang out in the run? Let me come in. Ah. Here you go. Thanks for watching bye!”
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    Bare back and neck. Rejecting the saddle

    Has anyone given up and let their hen’s back stay bare? One of my hens is so over mated and so very bare in her back and the front of her neck. She tolerated an apron for about a week but then tore it off. New feathers didn’t seem to fill in anyway. She seems entirely unbothered by the whole...
  20. chicChickChick

    Greedy broody

    Yertle the Chicken is broody and I gave in and let her set on seven eggs. Twice a day I have to steal back the eggs laid by other hens from adjacent box. I’ve put a barrier between the previously open back wall and she still manages to sneak a new or two a day. First time it happened she has...
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