Ella2025's Experiment Broody Hen Hatch-A-Long

[ella2025]

Now that they're both out can I decrease humidity in the incubator or take out the water entirely?

 

[ChickenChick46]

PEPPERMINT HATCHED!!! She still needs to dry, but she looks exactly like my Easter egger Eggo as a chick. Maybe Eggo is her mother.
View attachment 4223308

Welcome to the world, Peppermint!! You are precious!

 

[GreenJay]

I'll put Bippy in the small coop and let her settle a little before introducing the chicks to her.

Probably be better to wait until night before slipping them under her.

Now that they're both out can I decrease humidity in the incubator or take out the water entirely?

As long as they're fluffing out okay and not in danger of knocking the bowl over or jumping in it (it look pretty high compared to these tiny babes), I'd leave it for now.

 

[GreenJay]

PEPPERMINT HATCHED!!! She still needs to dry, but she looks exactly like my Easter egger Eggo as a chick. Maybe Eggo is her mother.
View attachment 4223308

Yay Peppermint!

 

[ella2025]

Probably be better to wait until night before slipping them under her.

As long as they're fluffing out okay and not in danger of knocking the bowl over or jumping in it (it look pretty high compared to these tiny babes), I'd leave it for now.

I put a tiny chick waterer in there so that should make some humidity and keep them from getting super dry, and I dipped their beaks. Also put an tiny chick feeder in there and showed Saffron how to use it. She is very good and learned within seconds.

 

[ella2025]

Pepper is fluffing up super fast. She's catching up to Saffron

 

[ella2025]

Pepper has yellow/white legs and Saffron has slate/black legs. None have feathered legs as expected but both look to have beards and muffs. Pepper actually looks exactly like Eggo (an EE that might be it's mother) minus underside color.

Here are photos of Eggo. She lays a blue egg which Pepper came from

 

[GreenJay]

Pepper has yellow/white legs and Saffron has slate/black legs. None have feathered legs as expected but both look to have beards and muffs. Pepper actually looks exactly like Eggo (an EE that might be it's mother) minus underside color.
View attachment 4223365
Here are photos of Eggo. She lays a blue egg which Pepper came from View attachment 4223367
View attachment 4223370

they're sooooo cute!

Eggo is a very pretty lady, it'll be cool if Peppermint looks a lot like her when grown.

 

[WingItRanch]

Probably be better to wait until night before slipping them under her.

As long as they're fluffing out okay and not in danger of knocking the bowl over or jumping in it (it look pretty high compared to these tiny babes), I'd leave it for now.

Agreed. Wait until night and don't show them to Bippy. Just slip them under her, preferably from behind where she can't see. You want her to think they hatched from the fake eggs. If you can manage to remove the fake eggs at the same time, even better.

 

[BoundlessLove]

They are precious!