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The healthy ones are doing great. Eating, drinking, pooping. Running all over their brooder. I still feel bad for the twins, especially as at least one of them was alive when the others hatched, because the egg was moving around. Don't know if we could have helped by "pipping" for them...

We were amazed. It never even occurred to us there might be twins. And that at least one of them was still alive and kicking enough to rock their egg on day 22... The other two are doing great, so that's nice... I hope they're hens.

Well, we had three fertile, live eggs (black Jersey giants). All rockin' and rollin' on day 22. Two hatched - vigorous, healthy chicks. The third was still rockin' the evening of day 22, so we didn't bug it. Yesterday morning (day 23), I took the two hatched chicks out of the incubator and into...

Okay, today is day 21 for the 14 GLW and 3 black Jersey giant eggs we set. We had a young black Jersey Giant cockerel who was with our four golden laced Wyandotte hens and one black Jersey Giant hen before he had to leave for pastures that don't mind crowing. I don't know if the GLW hens ever...

Okay, new to incubating, and I have all kinds of questions - today's is about sniffing out rotten eggs. 10 days ago, we set 17 brown GLW eggs. So far, I can't tell from candeling if anything's at work in there (I just don't have the experience to know what I'm seeing - or not seeing - with...

A week ago today I set 17 eggs from my GLW and black Jersey Giant in the incubator (LG still air). The eggs are all brown-shelled, some fairly large. I have followed candeling directions from the sticky here, but I really have no idea what - if anything - I'm seeing. With my little LED...

They're so cute! Do you have black Jersey giants in that mix? I see that you have them set on "regular wash".... how do they deal with the spin cycle? LOL!!

Thanks guys. So, until/unless we have fertile eggs we want to leave under her, it won't be a problem to keep collecting them daily? We won't "damage her psyche" or anything? Ours are young pullets and none have gone broody yet... just preparing for the day it happens. Plus my pipedream about a...

Here's the hypothetical question: suppose I want to let my hen/s raise a clutch. How do I know when a hen's gettin' ready to go broody so I don't keep picking up her eggs every day? This is still hypothetical because we don't have a rooster... I've just always wondered...

Quote: That stuff is indestructible. Here's our situation - we have 200' of electric poultry netting (two adjoining rolls of 100' each). Works fantastic to keep out raccoons, coyotes, dogs, possums ... everything. Except hawks, which never bothered our girls until we had 2 feet of snow and...

Quote: I have a friend that has 5 children and not much money at all. I love to give them eggs just to see how happy it makes them to get a couple of eggs is great!!!! why do you need someone else to 'trick' you into giving someone eggs that's in need, just do it and skip the chick. I'm...

I think it's a great idea, because it's promoting the concept of philanthropy - and not just by way of giving cash. Of course it costs money to raise the chick, feed it, house it, care for it, collect its eggs. To my mind, that's part of what makes donating the eggs or the bird itself so...

Yep - you can chose to raise a layer and donate the eggs, or raise a meat bird and donate the whole kit n kabottle. Or however it's spelled. I think it is such a wonderful, neat thing to do!

Love them, and totally love the names! Quote:

Mrs. Turbo : I never heard of it either...... cute word though Gee... I must be older than I thought. I used two cliches in class a while back and the students had NO idea what I meant: said the hens were "hobnobbing" and "chewing the fat" - are those old folk generational, too?

Slacker hens... It's sort of commical to watch them, though. They stretch and flap their wings, and feathers explode everywhere...

These gals were all big squatters ... so I expect they'll start that again. So, for normal, healthy hens, how long should I expect them to stay "eggless"?

All four of our GLW hens (10 months old) are molting - they've been at it for about two weeks now - and of course they're not laying at the moment. They stopped squatting, etc. They otherwise seem happy and healthy, active, eating, running around. They're on layer pellets, plus "treats" we give...

This is our first winter with chickens - we have four GLW pullets who are 9 1/2 months old; they were each laying an egg a day or every other day (2 - 4 eggs per day for the group) until a week ago, when we had an unfortunate encounter with a hawk, who killed our only black Jersey giant pullet...

0 out of 4. Same as yesterday. We've only gotten 4 in the last week.