LyndaNks
In the Brooder
- Jul 31, 2017
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Any advice is appreciated, thanks in advance.
I have a 1st time broody buff orph. laying on a clutch of eggs right now and it is day 26 (today Monday) and only 1 chick has hatched (on Sunday morning). The day we noticed she started laying we put it on the calendar and then 2 days later we saw her out to eat and poop went to look in the coop (a small coop which only has 1 nesting box in) and another hen was in there laying an egg..so this went on for like 3 days with different hens in and out overtime she came out. When we were able to get the small coop into our barn where she was left alone and no other chickens allowed i started candling the eggs. She is a very sweet hen and allowed us to do this when we brought her off the nest to eat and drink (very little) but atlast it was something. we did come home a couple of days to rotten open ones and cleaned out nest each time this happened. So now we got her down to 9 eggs and I have been candling them each night bc she allows me to and all eggs seem different ages. My questions are:
-Will she keep sitting on the nest until they are all hatched? (no i don't have an incubator)
-The baby chick that hatched on Sunday (day 26) is still under her wing and she has not brought her out to eat or drink, will she? or will we need to feed the baby chick after so many days?
-Also, the hen we have had to pick up and bring off nest to get her to eat and she has been alone in this small coop and has NOT pooped in like over 7 days now (barely eating so maybe this is normal?)
-How many days should we let her set on all the other eggs? just curious..
This is our first experience with a broody, thanks again for all the help.
I have a 1st time broody buff orph. laying on a clutch of eggs right now and it is day 26 (today Monday) and only 1 chick has hatched (on Sunday morning). The day we noticed she started laying we put it on the calendar and then 2 days later we saw her out to eat and poop went to look in the coop (a small coop which only has 1 nesting box in) and another hen was in there laying an egg..so this went on for like 3 days with different hens in and out overtime she came out. When we were able to get the small coop into our barn where she was left alone and no other chickens allowed i started candling the eggs. She is a very sweet hen and allowed us to do this when we brought her off the nest to eat and drink (very little) but atlast it was something. we did come home a couple of days to rotten open ones and cleaned out nest each time this happened. So now we got her down to 9 eggs and I have been candling them each night bc she allows me to and all eggs seem different ages. My questions are:
-Will she keep sitting on the nest until they are all hatched? (no i don't have an incubator)
-The baby chick that hatched on Sunday (day 26) is still under her wing and she has not brought her out to eat or drink, will she? or will we need to feed the baby chick after so many days?
-Also, the hen we have had to pick up and bring off nest to get her to eat and she has been alone in this small coop and has NOT pooped in like over 7 days now (barely eating so maybe this is normal?)
-How many days should we let her set on all the other eggs? just curious..
This is our first experience with a broody, thanks again for all the help.