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Welcome to BYC, and really enjoyed your story. Do you have a garage or a basement where they could relocate once you can round them up? If you cannot keep them, I am sure that you could give them all away as a group.
 
drumstick diva said:
She is quite an accomplished mama if she brooded and hatched 12 chicks. You may want to check out the "People with house chickens," thread since you mentioned having one if the 13 th.egg hatches. Good luck.
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drumstick diva said:
She is quite an accomplished mama if she brooded and hatched 12 chicks. You may want to check out the "People with house chickens," thread since you mentioned having one if the 13 th.egg hatches. Good luck.
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She actually brooded and hatched 14 on her own, but had a 15th egg few days before the 14 hatched..That egg I still have incubating however I can't tell if its alive or not, most likely it's not. In past I used to come home with new babies all the time and kept them in house until they got lil bigger and would sit in coop for hours everyday with new baby so the chickens would get used to it and then integrated it into coop eventually and had no issues with older chickens accepting it..
 
Eggcessive said:
Welcome to BYC, and really enjoyed your story. Do you have a garage or a basement where they could relocate once you can round them up? If you cannot keep them, I am sure that you could give them all away as a group.
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I have a falling down garage and a Michigan basement that occasionally floods In certain areas..I have someone that will take them but they've took to long getting their coop reinforced since they had a coon raid on last set..So I have someone coming to help build me one this weekend for them nothing fancy but good enough to keep them warm and safe this winter.I rent and plan on buying next year so when I do that I'll build a more appropriate fancier coop for them. Worse case scenario I have back up for them to go if I don't get all accomplished this weekend since its getting into 30s at night now and looking like an early snow might be coming as well
 
Welcome to BYC! Glad you've joined us! You can treat that last egg by performing a float test. Place the egg in warm water, point side down and watch it to see if it wiggles or moves. Any idea how long is been incubating? The closer it is to the end, the more noticeable movements will be.
 

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