WapiFarm
In the Brooder
- Mar 20, 2017
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Okay so this is my first time trying to hatch chicks under a broody girl. I put 8 eggs under my broody Blue Laced Wyndotte. She sat on the eggs for 23 days and only had two hatch one is super healthy and doing great the other was bald except for a few feathers and looked under developed. The other six never hatched. At day 19 we forgot to go gather eggs and she apparently stole about 10 new eggs and sat on them for about 24-36hrs, could this have caused her eggs not to hatch? We did candlelight the eggs that she was on and all of them seemed to be growing as per normal, but only got one chick. Did we give her too many to start with? Or did the late egg addition cause some to die?? Help I want to try again next time one of my Wyndotte or Rock Barred girls go broody, but I really want more success...
Also should we put more chicks under her or just let her raise the one by itself???
Also should we put more chicks under her or just let her raise the one by itself???