Broody Hatchalong!

[MGG]

I know

 

[WallacetheKhakiCampbell]

My Ivy had the nastiest poop ever today.

Spoiler: The massive poop. 🤣

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[WallacetheKhakiCampbell]

Well, my Buff Orpington was back on the clutch of eggs for about 4 hours today. She's very inconsistent and kind of a weirdo

 

[MGG]

Well, my Buff Orpington was back on the clutch of eggs for about 4 hours today. She's very inconsistent and kind of a weirdo

Lol!!!
My eggs are at a distribution center that's only 3 hours away!!! Yay!!!

 

[WallacetheKhakiCampbell]

Lol!!!
My eggs are at a distribution center that's only 3 hours away!!! Yay!!!

WHOOHOO!!! So close!!

*and then the even longer wait begins *

 

[Granitestater]

Yay!!!
My Ivy just went broody! I'm letting her hatch too. View attachment 2572308

Just realize probably half of the babies will be very fast growing roosters. I love my roosters but they brutalize the girls becsuse of their testosterone hormone. They say one rooster per 8 hens so thats hsrd to achieve. It is hard to find a good home for roosters. Many on craigs list come get them to put on cruel cockfighting events so just dont think itll be easy to rehome.. I found it would have been easier to have not left the 10 eggs under my hens than go thru what i am now with 9 roosters and only 8 hens. I constantly have to rescue the hens from group attacks by opening the boys mouth on the hens neck/head as they hang on while mounting the hen. The hens have sores and large areas of missing feathers plus their anxiety was mounting. . Ive now worked out a separation tactic and the girls are more relaxed but its hard constant work every day all day. Also dont know how your neighbors are but ours give us a hard time about the crowing, even when we only had 2 boys. They contacted the town. Now have the stress re: this upcoming summer.
So think it thru. I could not kill those little boy chicks i nutured. I dont feel we have a right to take their lives. They cannot control their desires from the testosterone so i dont blame them but they are brutal to the girls as a group and it is also our job to keep the hens safe and stress-free.
I thought i should let you know what you may be in for; its great when theyre little and mom is so motherly. They grow resl fast and suddenly mom is done with them, wants to go back to perch and pecks at them to get away and their hearts are broken. But they have ea other and they adjust.
Hope this helps put it all in perspective. I love all my chickens; just a real physical job!
i meant for this to go to the girl with the 9 eggs unde r broody whos dad gsve het permission to proceed. Sorry.

 

[Anne02]

Just realize probably half of the babies will be very fast growing roosters. I love my roosters but they brutalize the girls becsuse of their testosterone hormone. They say one rooster per 8 hens so thats hsrd to achieve. It is hard to find a good home for roosters. Many on craigs list come get them to put on cruel cockfighting events so just dont think itll be easy to rehome.. I found it would have been easier to have not left the 10 eggs under my hens than go thru what i am now with 9 roosters and only 8 hens. I constantly have to rescue the hens from group attacks by opening the boys mouth on the hens neck/head as they hang on while mounting the hen. The hens have sores and large areas of missing feathers plus their anxiety was mounting. . Ive now worked out a separation tactic and the girls are more relaxed but its hard constant work every day all day. Also dont know how your neighbors are but ours give us a hard time about the crowing, even when we only had 2 boys. They contacted the town. Now have the stress re: this upcoming summer.
So think it thru. I could not kill those little boy chicks i nutured. I dont feel we have a right to take their lives. They cannot control their desires from the testosterone so i dont blame them but they are brutal to the girls as a group and it is also our job to keep the hens safe and stress-free.
I thought i should let you know what you may be in for; its great when theyre little and mom is so motherly. They grow resl fast and suddenly mom is done with them, wants to go back to perch and pecks at them to get away and their hearts are broken. But they have ea other and they adjust.
Hope this helps put it all in perspective. I love all my chickens; just a real physical job!
i meant for this to go to the girl with the 9 eggs unde r broody whos dad gsve het permission to proceed. Sorry.

Thank you for telling me, but we already have a plan. We are going to eat any roosters. Our current rooster has 19 girls, and everyone is happy, but I doubt he'd let another boy (or two, or five ) stick around for too long.

 

[WallacetheKhakiCampbell]

Just realize probably half of the babies will be very fast growing roosters. I love my roosters but they brutalize the girls becsuse of their testosterone hormone. They say one rooster per 8 hens so thats hsrd to achieve. It is hard to find a good home for roosters. Many on craigs list come get them to put on cruel cockfighting events so just dont think itll be easy to rehome.. I found it would have been easier to have not left the 10 eggs under my hens than go thru what i am now with 9 roosters and only 8 hens. I constantly have to rescue the hens from group attacks by opening the boys mouth on the hens neck/head as they hang on while mounting the hen. The hens have sores and large areas of missing feathers plus their anxiety was mounting. . Ive now worked out a separation tactic and the girls are more relaxed but its hard constant work every day all day. Also dont know how your neighbors are but ours give us a hard time about the crowing, even when we only had 2 boys. They contacted the town. Now have the stress re: this upcoming summer.
So think it thru. I could not kill those little boy chicks i nutured. I dont feel we have a right to take their lives. They cannot control their desires from the testosterone so i dont blame them but they are brutal to the girls as a group and it is also our job to keep the hens safe and stress-free.
I thought i should let you know what you may be in for; its great when theyre little and mom is so motherly. They grow resl fast and suddenly mom is done with them, wants to go back to perch and pecks at them to get away and their hearts are broken. But they have ea other and they adjust.
Hope this helps put it all in perspective. I love all my chickens; just a real physical job!
i meant for this to go to the girl with the 9 eggs unde r broody whos dad gsve het permission to proceed. Sorry.

Same here, any roosters go to the kitchen at week 20 (got to fill the freezer!)

 

[WallacetheKhakiCampbell]

WHOOOHOOOO! My hen just laid her first egg!! She is like 50 weeks old or so and I expected she was just a dud! She has always liked to nest still but nothing has ever come out. Then this morning she found the tractor and decided the seat was the best place to lay her first egg. Meanwhile my rooster crowed while standing on the steering wheel .
She's a production blue, strangely small and slow growing but not bantam.

 

[Anne02]

WHOOOHOOOO! My hen just laid her first egg!! She is like 50 weeks old or so and I expected she was just a dud! She has always liked to nest still but nothing has ever come out. Then this morning she found the tractor and decided the seat was the best place to lay her first egg. Meanwhile my rooster crowed while standing on the steering wheel .
She's a production blue, strangely small and slow growing but not bantam.

Yay!! That's so great! Better late than never, am I right?