Anyone Hatching on the 27th or 28th? - I Need Hatching Buddies!!

[DouglasPeeps]

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Originally Posted by emvickrey

Thanks for posting pics! Cute Babies! Do you have any more this morning? How is your little one with the blood?

 

[DouglasPeeps]

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Is she up in a nesting box? If she is "up" you also might want to move her so the babies don't fall out. Could you block off the nesting box while you are gone to offer her more protection? Let us know how it goes.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

I have 2 hatches going - both under broody hens (I don't have an incubator). My first broody's eggs are due the 28th. We had purchased 10 egg from a local seller because, just like KirstenM, we don't have a rooster either.

We started with 3 welsummers, 3 b/b/s opringtons, & 4 ameraucana/easter eggers. Thanks to my dog taking 3 at the very beginning & then the hen slowly breaking or cracking an egg about every other day, we are now down to 2 eggs (EE & orp). I've been watching the last two and haven't seen any signs yet - I really hope they make it. They were developing fine last time they were candled and the egg she broke 3 days ago had a pretty good size chick in it, but she is off her nest a lot more than the other broody hen.

 

[emvickrey]

I'm usning my daughters camera and I don't know how to make it quit the glare. But here is one I got but it is fuzzy. Hard to make them stay still. I got a few on my phone a minute ago. I'll get them on photo bucket and on here in a little while. Thunderstorm coming so I need to get off here.

From left to right is the Blue Orp, mix then banty cochin splash

 

[chicksgalore]

They are too cute!

I have 36 eggs in the bator due to hatch tomorrow. I only candled 18 of them once on Day 8--two were questionable so I just left them in there. We shall see...

My eggs are mixed RIR, BR, Silkie, Australorp, Polish, EE (roo only). This should be interesting!

If this hatch goes well, I would like to get some different eggs off of here and try hatching. I have 2 EE hens but they haven't laid since March. I'd really like to get some better green layers.

Good luck everyone!

 

[kristenm1975]

Hey DouglasPeeps, she's in a nest box but it isn't up. It's on floor level and there's lots of padding so babies falling isn't a problem, thankfully. It's possible I could fence off a small area there, yes. She's in the last box at the end of the coop, and there's a small space there where there are no roosts, so it's possible though. To be honest, the drawback with that is that this coop is really deep in the poo. I inherited it when we started renting this house, and while I'm delighted that a coop came with the house, I am not so delighted with the mounds of dried up poo in there. I have yet to gather up the courage (and the gas mask and safety goggles) to tackle that mess.

 

[RonnieAtkeson]

Ive got 2 orps 1 dutch an a mixed breed out so far. Got another bbs orp fixing to jump out anytime. Got a bunch more not pipped yet. Gonna be a long hatch, keeping fingers crossed.

 

[okiehen]

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My hen is at day 20 today got her tractor ready

Then 2 more hens to go and I'm setting a new broody the weekend.

I'll have chicks every were.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

It's day 20 and my broody has been off the eggs more than usual lately. She's very eager to free-range with the rest of the hens (I always capture her and put her back on the nest after 10-15 minutes of free-ranging). She's probably off her nest about 6-7 times a day for 5-15 minutes - mostly just getting up to scratch around her private pen, etc. When I go in there and put her back on her nest, she usually settles right down. Is this normal in the last few days of hatch time? I thought she'd be on the nest almost constantly now.

We're in AZ and I just checked our humidy here - it's currently 15% and our temperature (at almost 4 p.m.) is 100 degrees. Do you think the eggs still have a chance or will our dry air & her frequent times off the nest harm the unborn chicks?

 

[chicksahoy]

i have a broody standard white cochin hen due on the 29th. shes on about 13-14 eggs. fingers crossed. i have a question though, i have always taken the chicks away from mama when they hatched, but as an experiment i would like to let her take care of them. she is in my main coop w/ the rest of the flock, but how do they eat and drink? do i need to put chick waterers and feeders in the coop? do i need to seperate her after the hatch? my big chickens are free range and only come in @ night, so she is left alone for most of the day.
all help is appreciated,
colton
edited to say: walkswithdog, i know what you mean, i had all white cochins, and one white leghorn, and i got a barred out of one of the eggs i hatched 8 weeks ago! although he did come out of a white cochin-white leghorn mixed egg