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all the babies with their mom is to cute our broody 1 is doing good with her 6 babies hope to get a pic tonight did not want to bother them to much after i moved them to the empty coop

Ok I wound up having to move broody one and the 6 silkies to the coop that was empty the second broody kept steeling them for 2 days so I let it just pkay out then when I got home I found a chick wondering around in the yard out of the coop and run was funny to see me chasing it the second...

Quote: No, no, that will never work. What you need to do is head to the store and get you some more babies to put under broody 1. If broody 2 takes these as well, you just keep adding more chicks until everyone is satisfied. [/quote I have 14 left in brooder if need be I will put 4 more...

the chicks i used were the ones i hatched in incubator everyone around me only has older bigger chicks to sell including the feed store and TSC i got home and found one little chick out of the coop and run for some reason so i picked it up and placed it under broody 2 could not find broody 1...

the box is plastic nice and clean and dry she took them out to peck around and babies could not get back up the ramp so she layed on the ground with them finally we were able to help them back up the ramp and into the box today i am taking our dog kennel placing it in the cornor of the coop with...

neither of the broodies hatched babies all their eggs were rotten, not fertile or exploded so i took some of the silkies i hatched out a week ago in the incubator and placed them under them they took right to the babies now broody 2 is taking broody 1 babies i have no way of seperating them i do...

Ok went out to check on them again i know i should leave them alone this time i found all 6 chicks under broody 2 and broody 1 trying with all her might to get in the same box as broody 2 and the chicks which there is no room for her so i put her back in her box grabed the 3 chicks one went...

Ok got a question everything was good last night when we went to bed 3 chicks under each hen went out there this morning to check on them looked under broody 1 there was only one chicks instead of 3 so we looked franticly for the other 2 then we decided to look under broody 2 she was ticked we...

she got back in the box there is no way to dry it out we did get most of the mud up but its still wet

Ok update on second broody after an hr we tried again to place chicks under her she let the chicks under her without pecking them after 10 min dh went to check if they.are ok and not being smothered amd she pecked the crap out of dh hand so we left them out there and went back outan hr later and...

Well day one went good mama hen happy and brought the babies out to walk on the ground in coop babies had hard time getting up ramp to nest box so mama hen layed on the wet floor of coop reason its wet is because of a bad storm came thru and flooded everything when it drys enough will have to go...

I am glad its working so far when i get home from work will check on them and make sure but they made it thru the night the chicks i used were silkies which are still very small so maybe that made a difference. will the second broody sit in the new nest for 3 more weeks if so i might just leave...

how do u build a broody house is it just another coop or smaller

Hi everyone thank you so much for the help yesterday well yesterday my husband took one broody and moved her next box to its side si the opening is not straight up we use milk crates as the nests and made a little ramp so the chicks can get out in the middle of the night we took a week old chick...

You could try giving her the week old chicks - it may work - it may not. You should be prepared to intervene or at least give the chicks a place to get away if they are scared of the broody or she of them. You may have better success getting some of the almost ready to hatch eggs from the...

The only thing is around here they only have week old chicks or older i hatched some a week ago they are silkies will she take a week old chick also the nest box is a milk crate if i mover her to an empty coop and lay the crate on its side instead of open end up will this hurt her and cause her...

HI EVERYONE WELL ONE BROODY HEN HAS BEEN ON THE NEST NOW FOR 24 DAYS AND NOTHING CAN I SNEEK BABY CHICKS UNDER HER TONIGHT IF SO I WILL GO TO FEED STORE AND BUY SOME. MY SECOND BROODY WILL BE ON NEST FOR 21 DAYS SATURDAY BUT SINCE NONE HATCHED UNDER 1ST BROODY GOOD CHANCE THAT THE EGGS UNDER...

from what i saw in their eggs they are developing but the thing is i took some from my bantam hen since she had so many and placed them under new broody that is almost a week behind the first one and the second hen had eggs at different stages of development will she stay till all hatch even...

HI everyone here are some pictures of my broodies please over look the mess in coop it has been raining on and off here in the south for several weeks and everything is a mess and not dry enough to get in and clean the silver laced whyndott i know can not spell was on 24 eggs when we found her...

Quote: I hope she does cg911, more than likely she will. i hope she does to she is off the nest a good bit during the day since it is 100 degrees and probably hotter than that in the coop but once the temp starts to go back down and cool off she sit and stays on the nest the rest of the day...