February 2023 hatch-a-long

[LhickenChicken]

I’m so glad she made out out what will you name her?

Dawn

 

[FeatherProfessor]

Number 7 doings its best to break all the other eggs and then play dead.

Plus the other fluffy six

 

[Janeothejungle]

Number 7 doings its best to break all the other eggs and then play dead.

Plus the other fluffy six

I'm still rooting for L+S (or 5+7?)! I keep checking in to see if he's out yet!

 

[Cochinlover92]

Day 18!!! Lockdown day!!! Loving all these chicks hatching! Its making me more impatient for mine! These next 3 days are going to go by soooo sloooow

 

[Bobmc914]

Well, I set my eggs last night. My first attempt to hatch eggs. We'll see how it goes. I have bielefelder roos and a bunch of different breed hens. Should be quite a variety of chicks.

 

[LhickenChicken]

Number 7 doings its best to break all the other eggs and then play dead.

Plus the other fluffy six

the playing dead is actually them sleeping

 

[BarnyardChaos]

How cool is this? These are my hatchlings from the weekend.

 

[LhickenChicken]

How cool is this?

did you do that yourself?

 

[lilwanderer]

So y'all know the chick who had a rough start? this morning we put her under mama and she did fine until mama kicked her while scratching, out of the cage she's in. We didn't know it happened until an hour or two later maybe, when she was found, she was cold and we thought she was dead and were about to throw her out when we felt movement and noticed she was breathing very faintly. Warmed her up and two hours later she was chirping again. this chick has been through a lot in 24 hours.
Before:

After:

 

[I Like Turkeys]

First chick from a broody hen hatched! No pictures of it, but i’ll get some tomorrow and hopefully by then she’s hatched more.

If everybody is ok with general chick pictures, ie chicks hatched in january, I did something! I have some young chicks who hatched jan. 28 & 29 who I plan to be apart of my BC breeding group. Given they’re still young, I’ve been hoping that the broody chicks would hatch soon enough so that I could stick my incubator-hatched ones with them.
So I gave that a shot today. Definitely didn’t do anything that is typically recommended when introducing hens to chicks, just put them in the same pen as her, but she accepted them anyways! I had to take my other broody out because she was screaming at them, but that’s one minor issue.
They were on-and-off tucking underneath her then running around all day, but settled in for snuggles once it started getting dark. She seemed a bit confused as to why they were running around all day, but didn’t abandon her unhatched eggs for them.
I feel happy, and like I just made my life a lot easier. I know broody hens don’t have a 100% success rate in raising chicks, but when time comes to *hopefully* integrate them into the flock, it should be easier because they’ve got mama to protect them.

Heres broody “Confetti Cake” with her adopted clutch, still sitting on her unhatched eggs.