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I would take them if I had another way to finish the hatch, but I just had a broody kill 5 before we knew what was happening.

I don't have much experience in this situation, but it has to be cleaned. I would do it as quickly as possible to minimize her disturbance and yes I would clean the eggs, but maybe w/ just a soft moist cloth, just to get the bulk off, but not to scrub.

She has a double hit of a recessive and very rare gene called scaleless, she genetically has no feather follicles or scales.

Okay guys, Miss Phyllis went broody, but that poses some logistic problems, how does a momma chicken keep her babies warm w/o feathers. The answer of course is a special maternity dress, like that wasn't obvious This is prototype one. It is the leg of one of Gary's thermal undies and some...

That's how I break them.

@Lady of McCamley I did not know how to answer from the ovation page. Yes I do use a ceramic heat bulb, no light so they get used to a light / dark cycle from hatch. But I only use it for a much shorter time then most human brooded chicks. It is on day and night for about 1 week, after that...

I'm so sorry

Whenever I brood chicks (as opposed to a broody hen) I always use feather duster "mom" we call it "blue mom" here b/c the cheap feather dusters we can get at our local dollar store are blue. I group some together and suspend them in the brooder so they barely touch the ground. It comforts them...

Awesome, congrats

If you go regularly once a day and feed them the egg they won't be so skiddish around you and will come to you.

I usually smash them

Boiled eggs, never had a broody, chick or chicken refuse to eat even from my hand.

Google water candling. It is a way to check for movement you can't see. Make sure no external pips though.

Congrats on the new hatches.

Depends on the broody. I have had moms call it quits when the chicks are 3 weeks, and I've had moms still letting the fully grown (nearly) chicks try and sit under them. I think 5 - 7 weeks is about normal though.

The mom won't take them out for a couple of days, then they take them out freely. They just need a safe dry protected spot. The chicks can spend a lot more time out from under the mom then what people who strickly "light" brood chicks would ever believe. When they get to feeling cool they...

Pics of chicks and mom from today. They are about 2.5 weeks old. We have had torrential (almost Biblical rains) this week, and the day temps have been 30 and nights 20, they are running around like they own the world. They have a dry nest area, and some yard area that is covered w/ tarp (the...

Either way will work. "They" say chicks don't eat for a day or two after hatch, but mine have always hatched hungry and would eat as soon as they could stand and not wobble. I had eggs in the incubator a week or so ago, I gave the chicks to the broody to raise, the first 2 to hatch were very...

She won't "take" take them to food and water for a day or so, but if you put a little food in the box w/ her and a SHALLOW dish of water (like a jar lid) she will eat and start teaching them the food call. I usually put in a mashed up boiled egg,

I thought I had posted some pics here but I guess I got side tracked on my way to the thread. Here is my broody and her chicks. I kept trying to talk her out of the idea of chicks in the winter, but she wasn't having any of it.