Broody hatch-a-long!!! With Pippin!

[PippinTheChicken]

Here's our girl with her little ones.

View attachment 2665324

I really hope Pippin can hatch her eggs so she can have little babies like these! Your momma and babies are so cute!

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Its day 7. I am gonna candle tonight when it gets dark.

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Nope. Not fertile.
I feel so bad for Pippin. She really wanted to be a mom.

 

[LadyLaurelin]

I’m so sorry

 

[PippinTheChicken]

I'm sad about those eggs.... but I have moved on.

I'm keeping the eggs under her until her NEW EGGS arrive!!!!!!

yes! that's right... I couldn't resist buying 4 polish eggs... the pics were just so funny!

 

[katiefloy]

i have a girl who is broody. she is sitting on 6 eggs from our flock and started May 10. Hatch day should be may 31. picture is of dad and a couple of our girls. mom is in the front giving the stink eye. she spent two weeks deciding if she was going to commit by sitting in nesting boxes and screaming if anyone came near her (but not all day), stomping around puffed up and growling at everyone, and doing a weird wing thing if anyone got too close. i suppose this is the equivalent of chicken PMS.

 

[PippinTheChicken]

i have a girl who is broody. she is sitting on 6 eggs from our flock and started May 10. Hatch day should be may 31. picture is of dad and a couple of our girls. mom is in the front giving the stink eye. she spent two weeks deciding if she was going to commit by sitting in nesting boxes and screaming if anyone came near her (but not all day), stomping around puffed up and growling at everyone, and doing a weird wing thing if anyone got too close. i suppose this is the equivalent of chicken PMS. View attachment 2667292

welcome to the hatch-a-long

 

[PippinTheChicken]

The new eggs arrived! They are so tiny! I knew polish were bantams but I didn't expect the eggs to be that small!

 

[katiefloy]

How's Pippin doing? Princess has started coming off the nest once a day on her own now. She terrorizes everyone else while she is off and they pretty much all hide until she goes back to her nest. I guess she isn't going to let anyone forget that she is head hen.

I candled her eggs on Sunday, but didn't really see anything (just an air cell and a dark mass) except in the lightest colored one which had definite veins. I plan to candle again in a few days. It was difficult to see anything in the eggs from the last batch as well and this time I candled a day earlier since I thought it was going to rain the following few days.

 

[PippinTheChicken]

The "dark mass" is the chick!!! Good luck