*Day 20 Update & Pic* A pen of 13 broody hens can cover how many eggs?

[pdsavage]

yeah a pic would be nice...wish i had more broodies makes hatching alot of eggs a breeze...

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Oh sorry, no pics. My PC crashed and I'm using a new laptop and haven't loaded the doo-dahs for my camera in here yet.

Update anyway!
I gave the Frizz girls 8 doz Am' eggs on the evening of the 4th. The next morning, there were 2 dozen 'uncovered' so I bought them inside and stuck them in an incubator. And there are 12 broody Frizz girls, not 13 --- either one was faking or just 'in the pile' laying an egg.
This morning, I candled the 72 eggs they did cover and found 4 clears and 2 bloodrings.
That leaves 66 developing Ameraucana eggs --- not bad for just piling eggs on the coop floor!
I haven't candled the other 2 doz I put in the 'bator yet.

Hahaha! Now ask me why I have a pipping duck egg in my 'bodice'.

Lisa

 

[roche477]

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[pbjmaker]

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SOOOOOit's your fault all my broodies are laying around on the floor stealing eggs from each other! 4 of the first 5 that went broody are frizzles a la you! Then the disease just spread.
Everyone be warned - Dipsey's frizzle eggs are carriers of contagious broody disease!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Yes, they are insanely broody.
No complaints from me. I'm just glad they aren't bad-tempered about me monking around with them.

Just candled the 'bator-ful (another 60 eggs) set the 4th (marked 4th, actually set 5th)...

26 Ameraucana / 24 growing & 2 clears
4 NNFGE / 4 growing
8 Serama / 8 growing
9 mott Cochin / 9 clears
5 Silkie / 4 growing & 1 clear
8 MGB / 1 growing & 7 clear

I don't know what's going on with my mottled Cochin bantams and Modern Game bantams. Fertility has been poor since they started laying again this year.

Hahaha, Had a broody duck on a nest w/just 1 developing egg. I gave it to the Frizz girls and broke up her nest. Lone d'ling is pipping this morning and I didn't want the Frizz girls fighting over it while I had all their other eggs inside. I just moved it to a spare 'bator.

Lisa
edited because I can't add

 

[DiVon80]

Sounds like so much fun!! Mine are all babies to young to even lay. Next year! Do take some pictures. Sure would love to see this.

 

[RubberChickenLubber]

Congrats Lisa. The eggs I got from you are hatching now. So far 4 nn's 2 silkies andd 1 cukoo it's a male. Is it possible that one of the silkies could be blue? One looks blue and the other looks black so far. They are precious. So that's 7 out of 12, one didn't develop (it started, so was fertile), at least one of the other 2 has pipped. So, 100% fertility and we'll see about the hatch when finished.

ETA, went to look at the listing that I purchased and yes, blues are definately a possibility!!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi Patti! So soon? (hehe, time passes quickly when they are hatching somewhere else)
Way to go!!! Can't wait to see pics!
If the father was the white Silkie, it could be black. If father was the splash Silkie, it would be either blue or splash. The only 2 silkie-feathered green-egger chicks I've kept are looking quite respectable (a splash and a blue).

I just realized I CAN take pics and then load them later, duh.

Lisa

 

[RubberChickenLubber]

Here is a video I did of some of them. So far 10 of them have hatched.

 

[DANNY]

Hey Lisa
Have you tried clipping around the vents on the mottled cochins?