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Of course, I was kidding about returning her! We love Emily a bunch; she is the sweetest girl and so BIG. That girl has petticoats to rival an Orp. And she does lay eggs. In fact, Tom found an egg in a nest he saw her come out of that actually looks like hers did. Could use her as a layer right...

I would now like to return Emily to you, Kathy. She is defective. LOL

Well, eggs are in the bator. All three are moving around in their little cocoons so now we wait. Since tomorrow is Day 17, I have only one day to turn them, then we're in the home stretch. I bet they won't pip on Day 20 like they would under a broody. Could even be a day late, considering how...

Well, she was a first timer and we didn't know how she'd do. At first, she kept letting one or two peek out and get cool, but then, when I removed a couple, she was doing great. Oh, well.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She quit. After DH replaced her reptile bulb with the regular heat lamp, a few hours later, he found her up on the roost with her three eggs getting pretty cool in the nest. She would not go back to them, no matter what he did. He put her in the...

Amy, there will be plenty of time to celebrate Emily's arrivals when you get back. We changed the heat lamp in the Firetower to a 250 watt red and hung it up at the peak so it would be warm but not too hot over Emmy. It's going to be under 25 degrees tonight. She's really doing this! Now, I hope...

Emily is on Day 16 today....and we had our first wet snowflakes and sleet of the season. I may regret letting her raise chicks in fall/winter, but she was determined and is doing a good job with her three eggs.

Re-candled Emily's four eggs. One quit, which is probably one of the ones that got too cold before she got wise to what she should be doing with them. So, she has three Del eggs with bouncing babies in them, due Nov 10.

Really, it puts out no light, Amy. It's a 75 watt bulb we found in the pet section of WalMart. It's a night heat bulb for reptiles. Cost about $5-6. You can't tell it's on unless you look at the red filament, but it puts out a cozy warmth just beneath it. Zane has one, though his does put out a...

It's not hard to take care of, but you do have to sort of sit on the edge, duck your head under and scooch in. It has come in very handy over the last couple of years, though we were considering selling it and building one we could walk into due to DH's back issues. It is about 6 feet across at...

Tom was an art major in college. My son is an artist, too.

Saturday is Day 10 for Emily. Amy, we call it the Firetower because it looks very much like the forest service firetowers we've seen. It was originally the Ameraucana coop, then it's been used for broodies with their babies, youngsters growing out, or any other birds who need to be separated...

I did candle again with the big maglite, since the sun had moved over and wasn't shining in the Firetower windows. There was one that wasn't developed as it should be, if at all, and we removed it. The other four all have huge dark areas, but I saw movement only in one of them for certain. We...

Amy, this is the Firetower: I did try to candle, but it's too light to be sure of what I'm seeing. Will have to do it after dark. I know they all were/are developing, but didn't see any movement in any of them, so can't say how many are actually still viable. If none develop, even the feed...

It will be a miracle if these eggs hatch. We continually find Emily "relocating" her nest to the bare wood floor in her little coop. We are daily having to push an egg or two underneath her, even finding an occasional one cool to the touch. Friday is Day 9 and we plan to candle on Day 10 to see...

Emily and my DH are "co-parenting", LOL. He opens the door to her little coop and pets her. She never fluffs or screeches at us. He asks if she's ready to come out and do her business. He lifts her out of the door. She eats, she poops, she does the wing-flapping, broody war cry, runs a few feet...

I usually candle a broody's eggs about day 9-10. Hoping for great fertility since I only have three Del hens left and one is not doing well, so I'll lose her.

Tomorrow is Day 5 for Emily. Today, heard Isaac pitching a fit and some hen was cackling from what sounded far away. When I went to see where she was, discovered that it was just Emily in the Firetower, bumping the door to get out. We let her out and all she wanted was to dustbathe, LOL. She...

She seems to be getting the hang of it. We let her out after we got back from town and she pooped a gargantuan dog-like poop, ate, drank, then wanted to go back to her babies. She let my DH lift her back into the coop and seems fine with him "co-parenting". But, they all are, silly hens. He has...

She did pluck her breast feathers, but she keeps pushing or letting the eggs roll out from under her. I removed the two EE eggs so maybe she will be more comfortable with just five. When DH leans in and rearranges the eggs, she talks to him and then comes out and wants to sit on his hands rather...