Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

I've got babies here too. Tomatilla the broody hatched one black cockerel this morning. I lifted Tomatilla up like I usually do to check the number of eggs under her to make sure none of them have been eaten or pooped on. There was a little black peeper. A close inspection of the comb told me it was a boy. I have another pip.

Only one thing went wrong with the whole incubation. That thing is called:
STUPID BANANITO
She went up there yesterday, shooed Tomatilla off her nest by a series of extremely hard pecks (Tomatilla is a very gentle, docile, hen) and ate Knokalina's egg with a developing chick inside, and ate the chick. Not fair. Had I known yesterday, I would have had roast Bananito for supper, I was so angry.

Anyway that pipped chick will most likely hatch tonight or tomorrow morning. So excited!

Sorry to hear this, that is sad.

Is there any way you can put the mama in a secure place by herself?

Can’t wait to see your chicks also

 

[Ponypoor]

Petunia
What’s with this brown feathers? And who is her mum??

She is like a reverse Martina

 

[RoyalChick]

Petunia
What’s with this brown feathers? And who is her mum??

She is like a reverse Martina

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Soooo pretty! I am in love.

 

[Ponypoor]

Soooo pretty! I am in love.

She is a darling, and likes to snuggle

 

[Ponypoor]

Soooo pretty! I am in love.

And Eli-too keeps flying up on me when I am bent over doing things - today she flew up and scrambled up to my shoulder scratching my arm ouch! She’s another snuggler

 

[featherhead007]

Petunia
What’s with this brown feathers? And who is her mum??

She is like a reverse Martina

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She looks so incredibly lonely in that photo.

 

[featherhead007]

The little beasties from next door are starting to get bolder as they grow. My birds are starting to get annoyed with the new strangers. An angry Barred Rock can be dangerous, and my ladies are watching very carefully.
Ps. Jaffar is still short!

 

[rural mouse]

Okay... so. The egg that I heard chirping will probably hatch tomorrow, or overnight. I'm going out of town tomorrow and coming back the next day. I don't know if I should take the non-peeping eggs and put them in the incubator just in case. I also don't know whether or not I should lock Willy in her brood house and put a bit of water in there for her.
Should I leave the non hatched eggs, and hope that she doesn't get up, or should I incubate them using my incubator?
I'm really eggcited, and I've never hatched a chick using a broody before, so I have NO idea what to do.

She likely won't leave the nest, but put food and water in with her and let her be (with the eggs).

 

[rural mouse]

Willow can eat chick food, right? I have the Purina Non Medicated food (I'll post a picture later)
I'm in my car at the lumber store, and there is a T-Storm cell right above us.
We've been getting storm after storm, after storm. It's awful.
Willy is dry, even though no one else is.

The higher protein content will be good for her.

 

[rural mouse]

Here is the egg.
Ack, my voice is so high on video. It sounds so weird!

Put that egg back under her. Let them be. They'll pop through her feathers when they're dry. Fishing them out wet can chill them. She's got this now.