Have a fun hatching day everyone!
It's day 21 for us and as of this morning we had 4 hatch, 1 pip, and one egg with no sign of hatching yet. One chick hatched on day 17 -- those photos are on my blog (link below). When I can get better photos of the whole brood I'll post them on this thread too!
Wowmanacat You're not alone -- I'm still waiting for several -- 2 hatched, 1 pipped, 3 nothing visible going on yet. They're under a broody hen, so it's hard for me to see if they're moving or anything.
Good luck to everyone still waiting!
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Nice link! How fun.
And now the stars out there are starting to notice that chickens are fun. I hadn't seen those pictures. I had heard of diapers for chickens, and when I mentioned them to my husband, I heard a very nervous chuckle. Uneasy to say the least. I laughed, and...
Writerofwords: your students are lucky to have this experience!
At our house, we're waiting for 5 Black Copper Maran eggs under our broody hen to hatch tomorrow or Saturday. One chick hatched on Monday -- I think the egg must have been incubating when I got it. We moved the chick into a...
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Good luck with your broody. I looked at your blog--is she an Australorp? I have a Speckled Sussex that went broody last summer while we were on vacation. If she goes again I was going to tuck some eggs under her. That's a picture of her in my avatar when I took her off the nest for a...
I do think chickens can lay different colour eggs than they hatched from -- I'm not sure about the likelihood though.
As long as people are still signing on for hatch buddies, here is my info:
6 black copper maran eggs set under my broody hen on April 9 -- due to hatch on around the 29th...