I'm glad I only found this thread this afternoon! I could not have endured 22 days of following this hatch! 😱🤣🤣🤣 But now I am "all-in," so ..... fingers tapping, eyeballs snapping, let's get this show on the road! Come on you pippers 'n zippers, we're waiting for you with bated breath! Come to Mama!
How would you turn them, @Eelantha ? I don't hatch, but I thought you just always wanted to keep the big end up, so you should just rock them back and forth? But a broody hen rolls them around pretty good, so I don't know .... I'd have to learn a LOT before I'd make an attempt!
Oh, I also want to say this in regard to some guilt you expressed feeling early on: broody hens do not have a 100% success rate either. Nature expects losses. So do not have an unrealistic expectation of your own results. Remember when Edison was developing the light bulb, he had many failures...
Thanks! Inquiring minds, lol! I have to say I am very impressed both with your setup and with your results up to this point. Your setup shows an amazing (to me) amount of creativity, problem-solving and determination. You mentioned a challenge thrown down by your dad so I assume you are a minor...