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That's awesome! Expecting ours to hatch tomorrow. Here's to hoping it goes as well!

We have no idea what happened....just found her pecking at the chicks. Found the shell the first time, but not the second time. She is sitting on the rest of the eggs content again. I hope it was just something like that and the rest will be fine until hatch day. She was such a great mama...

I posted on a new thread, but I am not really getting any answers, so I thought I would try here. I have a second time broody sitting eggs for 19 days now and today we caught her eating two chicks each about an hour apart. I don't think they hatched on their own, I think she broke into them...

I peeked under ours and all was fine. If she will let you lift her a little bit than go ahead and peek. Just don't lift her too far or too long.

Everyones new chicks are so adorable!! I have 4 - almost 3 week old chicks. I have a question. My mama seems to be losing ALOT of feathers, do new mamas molt after they have hatched chicks successfully?

I would leave the alone for another 2 or 3 days. We just had our first hatch and it started on day 23 and continued one egg a day for the next four days. So as someone so wisely told me on this thread....Be patient it will happen!

Adorable! What breed are the chicks?

Nothing like the warmth of a mother's wing!

How sweet!

It sure did! She is a great Mama, nobody has even tried to pick on a chick. The little ones squirt all over the coop and run and nobody pays any mind to them. Although our rooster has taken to pecking on mom. He just walks up to her and pecks, sometimes pulling out a feather but no blood so...

Mama brought the kiddies out for a walk today!!

Yay!! Post pics when they hatch!

So sorry! What a pretty girl.

Thank you Stony. It was your advise that convinced us to just leave her alone until all were hatched!

Lily with her brood Last chick hatched last night, another black Araucana- poking it's head out from under mama!

We are first timers also and we left our broody in her nest which is about 18 inches off the floor. She just hatched the last one late last night. Hatchings started sunday night, so as I learned the hard way just be patient. I thought they would all hatch within hours of each other but in...

I just cracked open a chicken egg that was on day 24, Mama pushed it out from under her and it was very cold. I candled it and saw no movement so I thought it was a failed chick...I was wrong

Thank You! Lily has never been camera shy! I will try to remember to enter it when it's calendar time.

That was me....Miss Impatience. Saturday was day 21, and based on info on this thread I started looking late Thursday or Friday. This is a first time for both Lily (mama hen) and me. So i had no idea how it would all happen. I have to say it has been AMAZING so far and chicken math is...