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  1. Ducklove334

    Ok to leave Broody "locked" on nest..already got babies pipping!

    okie dokie lemon pokies. she SHOULD have 2-6 babies hopefully tomorrow she had 4 internal pippers too, plus the two external ones, and I'm hoping the other 4 will atleast be internal pips by then too! I put the board back after having it off all day, so she can't get off the nest, and...
  2. Ducklove334

    Ok to leave Broody "locked" on nest..already got babies pipping!

    well, looks like I may HAVE to keep her locked up from tonight up til atleast tomorrow, she's already got babies comin'! 2 pipped externally, 3 or 4 are peeping in the eggs!
  3. Ducklove334

    Ok to leave Broody "locked" on nest..already got babies pipping!

    the nest boxes are a shelving type thing, 3 rows of 4 or 5 boxes. so no moving the boxes LOL. I had heard once that soomone used cat litter boxes in the nest boxes so that they could move it all at once, would that work if I moved everything into a litter box tonight, she doesn't mind being...
  4. Ducklove334

    Ok to leave Broody "locked" on nest..already got babies pipping!

    I had thought of that, actually. but I tried it with our broody silkie, took some eggs from the fridge first, and put them in the hutch on some straw, at first she went right to them, this was in the evening,by morning, she was pacing the door, wanting out badly, and the eggs were scattered all...
  5. Ducklove334

    Ok to leave Broody "locked" on nest..already got babies pipping!

    I'm asking this because someone has started up again in the coop. Lily Cochin has TWO days left on her 11 remaining eggs, well I went out this morning to find that someone had PULLED one of the chicks from the egg, and basically eaten the yolk right off, leaving the chick in the corner, THAT...
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