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Thank you Nicky!

Now can anyone help me with a dilemma... Her sister went broody a week ago. If I hear peeping from the second egg and put it under her to hatch within the next few days, can she accept it and stop being so broody after only a week?
 
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Ok Lady of McCamley, I'm going to try!
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Good luck...but if she is a good broody...she'll just think "Oh how wonderful...it came early."

I had a new broody quit on a batch of eggs (hopped the fence to get out of the broody hutch and run). I discovered her in the yard and ran to check the eggs which were cool to touch. I quickly got my Silkie who had just gone broody for about 3 days...I snatched up the Silkie from the main coop (who was hiding in a corner trying to brood) and plunked her down on the cooling eggs...they hatched in a week...she accepted them as if she had sat the whole 21 days and tended the chicks as if this were all normal.


They never seem to notice the time.

Lady of McCamley
 
I sure hope so I can't go another 21 days with chickens in the furnace room! never getting any sleep before and after work chores you know. didn't really want more hens till next spring after I could build the second group. I'll keep everybody informed!
 
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My first hen,her first clutch. We are oh so proud of OUR babies :)
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