Broody's Eggs Haven't Pipped, Should I be At All Concerned??

[RoosterDon]

looks like the nest is smack dab at the corner of the outside wall. kind of tricky. how is your soil? i hit rock six inches down here in Austin, but if you can sledge hammer down some wood posts, or rebar, you could wrap chicken wire around it almost butt up to the wall. does that make sense? rebar at home depot or lowes is cheap. if you don't hit rock, you could drive the rebar down deep and it would not be expensive or hard to do. have you ever done predator proofing? that would just be basically chicken wire that has much smaller holes in it. you can buy huge nails that are like twelve inches long and put a large washer on it, then hammer it through the wire on the ground, then you can just take some zip ties (those plastic things that zit shut) (the home depot people will know). now, you have the bottom sealed off.

how to get into the fenced in area? say you drive down quite a few pieces of rebar, just leave open one section (between two rebars), and you can lean a piece of plywood up against the opening, and maybe stack two or three cynder blocks to keep it in place. I don't know if this is making sense or not, but it would be easier then trying to make a gate.

also, since you can practically find anything on google now, just good "predator proofing a chicken fence" and whala, you will find more then you bargained for to look at. also google rebar and zip ties. most likely you can find someone at home depot who knows about protecting chickens as well.

we had our first pasty butt chick, and i did not know what it was. my wife googled chicken pasty butt randomly, and **** if there were not articles on it. turns out, our chick was right on the verge of her butt being sealed shut, and she would have died. so, google anything and everything, it all seems to be online in some form or fashion.

i tried to think of the cheapest way to fence in that area if you wanted to. i know some things are not cheap to do. good luck.

 

[roostersandhens]

looks like the nest is smack dab at the corner of the outside wall. kind of tricky. how is your soil? i hit rock six inches down here in Austin, but if you can sledge hammer down some wood posts, or rebar, you could wrap chicken wire around it almost butt up to the wall. does that make sense? rebar at home depot or lowes is cheap. if you don't hit rock, you could drive the rebar down deep and it would not be expensive or hard to do. have you ever done predator proofing? that would just be basically chicken wire that has much smaller holes in it. you can buy huge nails that are like twelve inches long and put a large washer on it, then hammer it through the wire on the ground, then you can just take some zip ties (those plastic things that zit shut) (the home depot people will know). now, you have the bottom sealed off.

how to get into the fenced in area? say you drive down quite a few pieces of rebar, just leave open one section (between two rebars), and you can lean a piece of plywood up against the opening, and maybe stack two or three cynder blocks to keep it in place. I don't know if this is making sense or not, but it would be easier then trying to make a gate.

also, since you can practically find anything on google now, just good "predator proofing a chicken fence" and whala, you will find more then you bargained for to look at. also google rebar and zip ties. most likely you can find someone at home depot who knows about protecting chickens as well.

we had our first pasty butt chick, and i did not know what it was. my wife googled chicken pasty butt randomly, and **** if there were not articles on it. turns out, our chick was right on the verge of her butt being sealed shut, and she would have died. so, google anything and everything, it all seems to be online in some form or fashion.

i tried to think of the cheapest way to fence in that area if you wanted to. i know some things are not cheap to do. good luck.

The only problem is all the stores are closed, as it's so late..

 

[roostersandhens]

One hatched!!!! S/he JUST hatched!!

Rhonda is SO proud! The chick looked yellow! Rhonda is an ISA Brown, and we do have a Leghorn rooster so he could be that hen's dad. We also have several other roos too though that hang with Rhonda and her sisters! Oh the chick is so cute!!

She was still a little in the shell but almost all the way out!!

 

[roostersandhens]

Do you think it's safe to move her?? I feel bad moving her when one just hatched, and is still all wet. But she is peeping so much that I am worried she'll give the hiding spot away to predators.. :/ ( I will be calling them all she instead she/he until I can try to wing sex them, as I don't want to have to say she/he)

 

[roostersandhens]

the chick is peeping REALLY loud non-stop.. I'm concerned about her giving them away..

 

[roostersandhens]

Anyone know? Please help!
Sry if I seem impatient, I am just really worried.

 

[roostersandhens]

Anyone????

 

[bobbi-j]

You're the only one who can make this decision. Either leave them out unprotected or move them. If you decide to move them, maybe wait until dark and with as little fuss or light as possible, put the hen and her eggs in a box (maybe put some bedding in it to cushion the eggs) and put them wherever you plan on putting them.

 

[appps]

Its a bit of a lucky dip really, she may survive out there fine or she may get eaten, she may be happy to be moved or she may not. Really there is no way to know and we can only guess at which is the better risk, she has obviously been out there unprotected for weeks now though and survived but her luck may run out.

I am guessing and that's all it is that after 3 weeks on that nest and with the eggs moving to tell her its nearly hatch time she isn't going to just give up on them too easily but if you move her I would put her in a box or something where she doesnt have a lot of choices but to settle back down again on her eggs.

 

[roostersandhens]

I ended up deciding that I want her to hatch her chicks where she wanted to do it, where she imagined she would be, I want it to be her experience. Then, once all or almost all have hatched, l'll move Rhonda along with her babies and any remaining eggs to a safe place in the house to be raised.

I was going to try letting Rhonda raise them outside, as I usually bring broody's and their babies in, but then I remembered: I have a really rude to poultry friends turkey. My turkey would kill those chicks in a second. She has dominance issues and such. But it's okay, all the roosters know that she is above them. She fights like the roosters. And since we don't have a male turkey, she poofs up and everything like one.

Anyways, were not here to talk about my turkey friends! This is Rhonda's thread