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Quote: I think the mothers sit as long as they can until they thinkt he already hatched chicks need to go to water and food. She might stay on the nest longer since you blocked off so the chick can't wonder to far. It is kind of a catch game when you use broodies and don't seclude them for any...

Quote: Are they having hatching problems? The last one had problems and this one trying to hatch now is having problems. He is going on 30 hours and all that is out is his bill and the rest of him has that membrane stuck all over. It looks like he is to big to move int he egg. He is just...

The one that hatched two days ago is very big for only 2 days old. I think what happened was Cocoa layed a large clutch of 20 eggs. I thought that she shouldn't try to hatch that many eggs so I took 8 away. Well, she still layed for 5 more days until she went completely broody and started...

Well as many of you know my broody Cocoa hatched out 8 of her eggs over Memorial weekend and my GLW hatched out 2 of Cocoa's eggs also at the same time. We gave Cocoa the ducklings from under the GLW so she had 10 and four eggs still left in the nest. After two days she got off of the nest and...