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I had no idea, MJ! I have been MIA on here for a week or so. Now I really have to get my butt in gear and catch up on your thread, so exciting!I'm glad you favour hen hatches over incubator hatches.
Peggy and Ivy are co-parenting two fertile eggs expected to hatch Sunday-Tuesday. It's my first ever hatch and I'm a bit jumpy about it.
That is so cool!
I most sincerely hope she will for you. That would be amazing.It was not a fluke, you used the best incubator on the market, a momma hen. I have yet to have a 100% hatch rate using the incubator. I have had a perfect hatch rate using a broody hen. With the incubator I hover constantly checking temps, humidity, making sure the turner is working, candling on schedule. With the hen, I leave her to it and focus on her. Making sure she comes off to eat and relieve herself and she does the rest. I'm going to be perfectly honest here and say something that I should smack myself over. I hope in the next week Chiquita goes broody. If she does I'm definitely giving her the eggs. It also solves the issues of me brooding them myself. Surely a hen that went broody 10 times last year will get with the program right?
I am doing very well today. Thanks for checking.I hope you’re feeling better now, Bob
It's been thrilling and worriesome in equal measure I'm sure to be much calmer for future hatches (I hope)!I had no idea, MJ! I have been MIA on here for a week or so. Now I really have to get my butt in gear and catch up on your thread, so exciting!
You will have 2 mommas. That's 50% of your tribe. I think those odds are pretty good.Ah! I was going to let the mums defend the chicks and it's good to know you do that too.
I don't have a rooster but I'm sure we'll muddle along somehow.
That's true! I didn't think of it like thatYou will have 2 mommas. That's 50% of your tribe. I think those odds are pretty good.
Awww.I really missed my old Amber's presence today when I gave the girls some cucumber which was Amber's favourite treat
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