amazing chick story

shardean

Chirping
7 Years
May 12, 2012
248
3
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Sequim, Washington
OK here is one for the books! First off my 2 year old Polish hen decided to go broody...that shocked me! She was on 11 eggs, this morning I go out and see a chick peeking out from under the hen! Go out a couple hours later and she is off the nest and all chicks are under her. I see some broken shells and looked like 3 unhatched eggs. Go back out a few hours later, she is still off the nest so I get a plastic bag and put the shells in it and find there is only 2 unhatched eggs..take them put them in the bag. ti a knot i the bag and throw it in the trash. more then 7 hours later I come home and here peeping, look all over for a baby bird thinking one fell out of its nest..don't find anything! Then I remember the eggs I tossed in the trash..open the trash can pull up the plastic bag and a live chick is peeping away! I took him Or her to the coop and put under the hen. She seemed fine with it! Unbelievable! So 10 out of 11 chicks! I guess chicks can hatch in a plastic bag in the trash! Who would have thought!
 
Wow, fantastic hatch! And that last chick is lucky. Now remember next time to check unhatched eggs before trashing them! LOL I can remember doing something similar once, when I just started hatching. I tossed an egg I thought was a goner and my DH told me to give it a bit longer. So I put it back under the hen when she went to sleep that evening with the chicks. The egg hatched overnight. Oops.. DH used to bring the chick inside and tell it "Yeah, Mommy threw you in the BIN!" I thought I'd never hear the end of it LOL
 
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