EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Wickedchicken6]

I've been watching these two as well but not staying up for it.
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Whew...she even looks upset that you've taken a picture.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

You stayed up with a hatching broody??

in and out w/flashlight until 3-ish. I am a worry wart w/broody hen hatches. Mine get crushed too often.
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[Wickedchicken6]

in and out w/flashlight until 3-ish. I am a worry wart w/broody hen hatches. Mine get crushed too often.
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I see.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I haven't seen @meltel or @mlm Mike in a few days.
@Sally Sunshine sounds supper SUPER (just for you kw ) busy so she gets a pass....

 

[Wickedchicken6]

in and out w/flashlight until 3-ish. I am a worry wart w/broody hen hatches. Mine get crushed too often.
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(it's good you edited it)

 

[Pensmaster]

Whew...she even looks upset that you've taken a picture.

The breed is very alert. That's why I don't mess with them and they are in the corner of coop. I have two roosters and two other hens in there. So any chick that hatches must be taken out.

in and out w/flashlight until 3-ish. I am a worry wart w/broody hen hatches. Mine get crushed too often.
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This is a worry of mine as well. Not crushing so much but pecking from others. Right now I have plenty of their chicks otherwise I'd be hatching in incubator.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I see.

I bring them inside to the lamp.. They will survive in the tanning bed, instead of being crushed or pecked by the other adults. Not set up for broody hen hatch. I just do it to give the hens something to do while they are stuck in that cycle.

(edited) I am tired

 

[Wickedchicken6]

The breed is very alert. That's why I don't mess with them and they are in the corner of coop. I have two roosters and two other hens in there. So any chick that hatches must be taken out.


This is a worry of mine as well. Not crushing so much but pecking from others. Right now I have plenty of their chicks otherwise I'd be hatching in incubator.

I must be very lucky. I'm not meaning this in a conceited way at all. But the way I deal with my broodies and the chicks would make your eye lashes curl probably.

When Chewbacca hatched out her nest of babies, I was going to be gone the entire next day...so I moved them all that morning from the back into general population, gave 5 to my main buff broody since it looked like she'd take them (I just wanted her to stop brooding)...put the food and water in an old type open wire kennel...and didn't see them until the next morning. Then I added another first time broody to them with two chicks in a couple of days. General population is all the hens, half-growns and all the guinea fowl.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I bring them inside to the lamp.. They will survive in the tanning bed, crushed or pecked by the other adults. Not set up for broody hen hatch. I just do it to give the hens something to do while they are stuck in that cycle.
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They will survive in the tanning bed, crushed or pecked by the other adults.

Are you meaning they "won't" survive...because you're just confusing me now.
I'm not set up for broodies at all either. I tell them that, we've had meetings...and they keep ignoring me.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

They will survive in the tanning bed, crushed or pecked by the other adults.

Are you meaning they "won't" survive...because you're just confusing me now.View attachment 1140951
I'm not set up for broodies at all either. I tell them that, we've had meetings...and they keep ignoring me.

eye fixed it. ooppss. me zombie 2day.
they were born in my egg house. their are 75 hens in there