Broody Hen Thread!

[microchick]

Great ok! good to know, I have the incubator on standby and I will just see how this pans out!

Good Luck! Keep us all informed. Nothing we love more than a good hatch drama!

 

[nchls school]

New serama chicks

 

[carternm31]

Need not have worried! She was out this afternoon, one didn't make it, but 6 healthy chicks under her.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1387478187971617

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1387487917970644

 

[microchick]

Carternm31! 6 beautiful, healthy chicks! What a great Thanksgiving gift!

 

[casey197530]

 

[casey197530]

Two so far lost one waiting on another

 

[casey197530]

 

[carternm31]

Mamma teaching the peeps to come out and eat!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1388926161160153

Congratulations Casey too BTW!!

Here are 4 of the 6. I think she hatched 3 Wyandottes, a Cuckoo Muran, a Welsummer and a California White!

 

[Chickensfan]

i have a broody and i just candled. (the first candleing) i got rid of the bad eggs, but none were specifically "perfect". i just put some that looked like a possibility under her again. but now, after about 1/2 more days, i noticed some unmarked eggs. i think some hens laid there and she tucked them under her. i am thinking that i may just leave them under her, because i just lost a particularily wonderful and lively hen, and i think one of the eggs may be hers.

 

[the poppster]

i have a broody and i just candled. (the first candleing) i got rid of the bad eggs, but none were specifically "perfect". i just put some that looked like a possibility under her again. but now, after about 1/2 more days, i noticed some unmarked eggs. i think some hens laid there and she tucked them under her. i am thinking that i may just leave them under her, because i just lost a particularily wonderful and lively hen, and i think one of the eggs may be hers.

You should be careful not to let new eggs to be laid in your broody nest...it will cause a staggered hatch...and your hen will probably abandon the late eggs if they don't hatch out within a day or so of the first ones...