First Time Broody - Progression Post

[EmmaRainboe]

Day 20! Day 20! Nelly kept lifting up and looking under her when I checked on her a little bit ago, so hopefully that means it’s going to be very soon!

Yay! Hoping it goes well!

 

[Allsfairinloveandbugs]

Shes feeling her egg babies rocking! Not much longer now!!

 

[cluckingheck]

Shes feeling her egg babies rocking! Not much longer now!!

im really excited! i hope they come a little early and hatch today, because im going to be so worried at work tomorrow if they don’t hatch ahh

 

[Allsfairinloveandbugs]

With the broodys ive had, the first chicks have ALways begun to hatch on day 20, & most all have finished hatching by end of day 21. Rarely there has been a straggler hatchee on day 22. But in vast majority of cases, any eggs that havent hatched by day 21 never do. Ive always read that broody eggs usually hatch earlier than artificially incubated eggs, & in my experiences that has definitely been true.

 

[cluckingheck]

the first baby has hatched!!

 

[cluckingheck]

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the first baby has hatched!!

still the only baby so far

 

[cluckingheck]

oh, I’m dumb. Today is only day 20. The eggs went under Nelly on the 1st, so this lil peeper came a day early

 

[Minky]

how's she doing? any more? My 1st time broody is due to hatch her 8 eggs on Wednesday.

 

[cluckingheck]

how's she doing? any more? My 1st time broody is due to hatch her 8 eggs on Wednesday.

no, still only the one so far. she didn’t get off the nest at all yesterday and ended up pooping in it. She’s doing fine otherwise, a little cranky whenever I check on her lol

 

[cluckingheck]

so. sometime this morning, Nelly’s chick had fallen out of the nest and couldn’t get back in, so she got off the eggs to be with the chick. i was at work and wasn’t checking on them, but my dad was. he checked her around 9 something and saw that she was off. instead of putting her and the chick back in the nest, he put a heating plate over the eggs and never thought to call me to see what to do. I got off of work at 2 and found out then. im not happy but my cousin brought over an incubator and we put the remaining eggs in that. they’re probably dead, I don’t know. candling is too risky now with how far they were. we’ll see