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UGH!! Well, one of the broodies quit about a week ago. She'd already "lost" a number of her eggs, and had broken a few more. Hubby put the remaining 5 into the other hen's nest. A couple of those eggs started hatching Wednesday evening. The hen killed the chicks as they started zipping...

They are being good, getting their own food and water and treats and loyally sticking to their nests.

They are standards ... the broody bantam was on 15 eggs when I took them from her, poor thing. They have a rubber horse grain tub for a "nest" with bedding in it and have fluffed up to fill all available space ... this is how we hatched out our last two clutches under broodies. Not sure if our...

There are actually 3 broodies, but I have nowhere for my frizzle to sit where she won't get bullied by the bigger girls. So right now I have a Cuckoo Maran and a Light Brahma sitting on "mutt" eggs, start date of May 2.

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Need to update my percentage. Stumpy didn't make it. Also, upon opening the rest of the eggs, two were not fertile. I must have made rookie candling error guesses. So, 2 out of 13. Most of the eggs had nearly fully formed chicks that never pipped.

The LG was an impulse buy when the broody that was "scheduled" to sit on the eggs that were bought and on their way to me changed her mind! I would MUCH rather have a broody hatch and raise the chicks. So much easier!!

I've been busy over in "Incubating & Hatching" ... I guess I learned a $20 lesson. None of my purchased eggs hatched, and I know they were alive on Day 14. My first incubator experience ended with 3 out of 15, all of the hatchlings from our own mutt eggs. I don't so much blame the cheapo...

I've had a hard time keeping humidity up, so I don't think it drowned... seems more like a bunch of them just quit sometime after Day 14 and before Day 19. Hard to say. Stumpy is doing better. The 'older' two are in a box with a lamp and he's still in the 'bator until he gains some strength...

It's Day 23 by my figuring, and with three hatched (one yesterday and two the day before) I think we're done. I candled a couple eggs and found no movement; opened one, and found a mostly formed dead chick. So I guess I'm 3 out of 15. We're leaving things sit until the youngest is dry and...

A third egg hatched today. The chick isn't doing too well, seems to have lost a lot of blood (and still losing blood) through the "stump" and is just overall not as healthy-looking as the others were, even when exhausted from zipping. We opened an egg that showed no movement when we candled it...

24 hours after the last one, 1 more egg has pipped. No rocking or peeping from the other 12, but then again this egg had no signs of life when I went to bed, either. The two chicks were snuggled in the carton on either side of the pipped egg, peeping to it, cuter than cute!! It's in the...

Oh help, I want to snuggle the babies, they are so pathetic running around peeping at all the unpipped eggs. Remind me why I have to sit on my hands!!? Two babies out (pipped last night) and no rocking, peeping or pipping from the remaining 13 eggs.

I'm putting the lens right on the window and using the macro setting for close-up pics. Auto-focus is a little off, but the lighting isn't good enough to get anything better than that.

Second egg to pip: Last night This morning After work today!! This is a bantam egg, from one of three frizzles or a non-frizzled cochin hen and not sure which of the roos is the pop. Why are there no more pips? Waaaaahh ...

My second egg to pip hatched, but not even as much as a muffled peep from the rest so far ... *sits on hands*

Too cute!

All the way out! Only just the other one pipped ... guess I'm going to go to work after all ... maybe that will make the rest escape!

Same egg from last night, this morning: