Accidental incubation we need a home for the chicks!!!

[2000096904]

Read whole thread cant really understand how you got into this situation or how it went from 10 eggs to 26. But do understand you are trying to give away chicks that haven't hatched yet. At least you are looking ahead now hopefully you can find good homes for any of the chicks that hatch. OP have gave you some good advice on how to try to make that happen. Now that you have a rooster you now know its not a good idea to let your hen sit on eggs just to sit. Not really a good idea to let hens go broody to just sit on unfertile eggs either it takes a lot out of hen. Hopefully it all works out for you and the chicks in the end. GOOD LUCK.

Okay so let me do a little bit more of explaining even though you already read the whole story I might not have explained it extremely well so for the first thing that you asked was how did it go from 10 eggs to 26 well the thing was we took the 10 eggs out and put them in the incubator just because we thought only those ones had growth cuz we had only you know Kindle those ones we took those out put them in the incubator and stuff and then the other ones we were just going to leave under the broody but she actually kills chicks and we thought there was no reasoning to leave the other ones under there too so if they were just going to get killed by our booty so we took those out and put them in the incubators so yeah that's how we have 26 eggs and in the incubator also how we got the eggs in the first place what really happened and this is a very complicated story is me and my mother left the house We of course had a nanny but what for the house and for the chickens but what actually happened was the nanny couldn't reach the chicks well eggs and by the time we got back we had substantial development. We decided to let the broody stay on some of the eggs while we took in the other 10 because we figured we would hatch these 10 eggs and then sell the chicks but what ended up happening was the pretty left the nest and we brought in the other eggs and our broody does kill chicks anyway so we probably would have would not have gotten anything out of those eggs if we put them under.

 

[2000096904]

I just don't get why you would let a hen sit on eggs you know are infertile in the first place, since it sounds like you've done it before. It's going to do nothing but take a large toll on their bodies

And explaining this question that I do agree with 100% is that there's no point in letting her sit on a baroness the broody before we accidentally broke her literally in the middle of the incubation of the eggs that we cannot take care of the broody before that if you took the eggs away from her she would literally just sit on the empty nest for however long it took to get more eggs and then she would continue to sit on that nest and there is no point in it if she's just going to sit on an empty nest and so I decided to make her feel better and let her sit on a couple of eggs that are infertile

 

[JacinLarkwell]

And explaining this question that I do agree with 100% is that there's no point in letting her sit on a baroness the broody before we accidentally broke her literally in the middle of the incubation of the eggs that we cannot take care of the broody before that if you took the eggs away from her she would literally just sit on the empty nest for however long it took to get more eggs and then she would continue to sit on that nest and there is no point in it if she's just going to sit on an empty nest and so I decided to make her feel better and let her sit on a couple of eggs that are infertile

There's no reason though. It's not going to make her feel better to sit on eggs destined never to hatch. It's just going to take a toll on her health. It's best for everyone to break any broodies you don't want/can't have.

 

[2000096904]

There's no reason though. It's not going to make her feel better to sit on eggs destined never to hatch. It's just going to take a toll on her health. It's best for everyone to break any broodies you don't want/can't have.

Fine I'm sorry I did not break my Broody hen ok....

 

[Ascholten]

It's not about your hurt feelings, or getting attention or coddling, it's about what's best for your chickens. People are trying to help you do what's best for the bird's and you act like anytime someone doesn't just gush praise on you that it's a personal attack.

You are not doing it right, they are TRYING to help you by explaining WHAT you did wrong and HOW TO FIX IT. 1001 excuses is not going to help your chicken.

Perhaps you are not mature enough really to take proper care of your chickens and should let the adults do it? Would you let your kids eat candy all day, knowing it's bad for them, because you didn't have the courage to tell them NO? Chickens are no different. Would you rather wake up one day and find your chicken dead, because YOU did not do your job as a responsible parent and just let it have it's way on everything until malnutrition finally took it's toll? That could happen too.

Stop making kids you can't take care of. This also sounds like something Id love to put in the things you wish you could say thread too. :/

Aaron

 

[BDutch]

My first thougt after reading this thread was that 20000.. was trolling.

But after reading some other posts I think you are too young to have the responsibility to take care of animals. How old are you? What is the role of you’re parents in this?

Anyway I think you should get some help from an adult who knows more about poultry and likes to help you to take care of you’re flock.