WooHoo!!!! Stella did it. On day 26 I so far have 1 dark tiny baby. I went out tonight to toss Stella's eggs and move her to another coop. I lifted her up to check on the eggs and there was a dark colored baby chick....So I will wait a couple more days to see if anything else hatches. Stella has been sitting for 43 days. The first batch of eggs were the unhatched from 2 other broodys that got too interested in their chicks that had already hatched so I put the remainders under Stella to see if anything would happen...nothing. So the next day I put 5 new eggs under her and now on day 26 the hatch has started. At least I hope that it hasn't also already finished. She is such a good mother. She stayed with her chicks until they were as big as her. She is my avatar with one of her chicks from her 1st hatch. She is a black cochin and spends half of her time broody and the other half raising chicks. So now between my 3 broody hens I have 10 chicks. I have only spotted 2 possible cockerels so far. And my new coop will be finished in 2 weeks. Hooray!! No chickens in the garage for me this winter. I will post pictures soon.
