Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[chiqita]

Some hens share great. Some do not. Some hens will share even if they do not brood together.

Here is my strategy for moving broodies who are hatching together. ( mind you I usually have chicks for all of them but not all on the same day)


I wait for 1 chick to hatch and them move it and one mother ( usually ones who has been sitting longest) to a new nesting/ brooding box. Once there is a peeping chick in there she will stay in the new box. Then I give her however many eggs she gets to hatch ( for me it is usually all of one date if I have multiple hatches) in the new box. I will watch anything that has a pip if I move it for getting stuck.
Then rinse and repeat. I'd stick some more eggs under the new broodies she might have issues if she has been sitting less then 10 days.

All my broodies but 1 this year have been sitting in groups and so far this has worked great.

3 sets have raised their babies together. And sparkles has stolen all the chicks from one other hen who gave up. 1 set was an Icelandic hen and a turkey....

 

[GableBabble]

Muhhhaaa! For the Alliance! Maybe I need to get back on so we can start a BYC guild! I was having so little time to play with my nutty life I couldn't justify paying for it anymore, but it is free to lvl 20 now....

Dear lord, am I the only Hordie on here? lmaoooooo

 

[krazykat0373]

Quote: I am a hoarder...birds are my hoardies

 

[SusanRenee]

Dear lord, am I the only Hordie on here? lmaoooooo

I actually had a horde toon, but my main guild was alliance, and it was so convenient to have a bunch of toons in one guild to play off of. My hubs played too and we'd just shunt materials and gold back and forth, he was much more into leveling than me, I played for years and barely got a toon to 50

 

[caj1985]

Some hens share great. Some do not. Some hens will share even if they do not brood together.

Here is my strategy for moving broodies who are hatching together. ( mind you I usually have chicks for all of them but not all on the same day)


I wait for 1 chick to hatch and them move it and one mother ( usually ones who has been sitting longest) to a new nesting/ brooding box. Once there is a peeping chick in there she will stay in the new box. Then I give her however many eggs she gets to hatch ( for me it is usually all of one date if I have multiple hatches) in the new box. I will watch anything that has a pip if I move it for getting stuck.
Then rinse and repeat. I'd stick some more eggs under the new broodies she might have issues if she has been sitting less then 10 days.

All my broodies but 1 this year have been sitting in groups and so far this has worked great.

3 sets have raised their babies together. And sparkles has stolen all the chicks from one other hen who gave up. 1 set was an Icelandic hen and a turkey....

Great info. Thank you. I'm really trying hard to picture the Icelandic and turkey co-brooding. I think we need pictures on that one. Were they setting both species?

 

[SewChaos]

My chicks from CPL arrived this morning! Now, what are they???

 

[cluckitall]

Good afternoon everybody! Finally getting to stop long enough to have tea and relax for a few. I've got a long way to go and about 20 more little portable coops to build yet, but it's starting to be a little more organized, yay!

I appreciate the explanations of the WoW experience. I think I will keep my distance. I already have my fingers in too many pies to do as well in any of them as I want to. The last thing I need is another fun time-suck! (That's what BYC is for!)

x2 Hollowoakfarm! I watch WOW occasionally (it's a gorgeous game, visually!) but I refuse to start playing. Chiqita, if you used to run raids in (on?) Dalaran I may have watched you raiding, lol!

This is way off the current thread discussion, but I need some advice. I have 3 Sicilian Buttercup Bantams which according to breed info are not supposed to go broody. I came back from MN to two of the three co-brooding in one nesting box. The other one was faithfully laying her egg with the other two, and I removed it each night after I gave the two broodies eggs to set. Last night, my third decided she is going to join the flock. I now have all three setting in one box on maybe 10 eggs between them. The eggs are due to hatch next Tuesday. How do I work this? Will they share chicks, will the one that just started setting continue to set?

I've never had broody hens before. I have never seen the original two ever get off the eggs and neither has my DH. They must be running down quickly to get food and water and then right back up.

Should I move all three of them into a separate area as they are in an elevated coop with a hole in the floor, or should I just move feed and water up and block the hole in the floor temporarily? My poor SBB cockerel tried to move into the layer coop last night. He is feeling terribly neglected and in need of henly companionship. LOL

I am useless on answering broody hen questions (haven't had one yet!) but am

at the fact that a chicken question somehow briefly became way off topic on this thread!!!

I am a hoarder...birds are my hoardies

Hee! Yep!

 

[cluckitall]

My chicks from CPL arrived this morning! Now, what are they???

Pretties!!! Those must be some of the ones she was packing when I left on Tuesday! Uhmmm... I think the black ones might be BCMs, and now I'm trying to remember what else she was pulling out of the incubator -- there were tons! Maybe some basques and rhodebars? I am totally guessing, here.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

I am so very tired! All day yesterday and no chickies, calling every stop from here to FL and no real answers but found out yesterday about 6pm that the box of chicks were checked in in Knoxville and would be coming my way. So I called the PO and told them to call me as soon as the chicks came in- whatever time! I worked my hiney off in the barn and made a new spot for my new chickies in the house, got the kids off to bed and went to bed myself at around 11 last night. Got the phone call at 12:07 and got myself awake as I could and drove down to the PO. All my little babies were safe (not what I ordered, but, safe) got them home and stayed up with them for about 30 more minutes making sure they would eat and drink because they had absolutely no growgel left at all. Went back to be and tossed and turned forever. Whew.... chicks are stressful sometimes.
No... I don't have a hording problem- I don't hoard chicks I just make sure I have plenty every week to fill up all the time I don't have to do anything else that really needs to be done. I just put them everywhere nothing else can go- and sometimes I just re-arrange stuff so I can put more chicks up.

 

[SewChaos]

Pretties!!! Those must be some of the ones she was packing when I left on Tuesday! Uhmmm... I think the black ones might be BCMs, and now I'm trying to remember what else she was pulling out of the incubator -- there were tons! Maybe some basques and rhodebars? I am totally guessing, here.

There are some yellow ones with 5 toes and feathered legs...favorelles?
There are marans, a couple blacks, some cuckoo and a pretty blue/grey one.
There are a couple yellow chicks with straight combs and clean legs
and then the chipmunk-y ones...