Hatching with 2 broodies

[tommysgirl]

I found a woman who is willing to sell me hatching eggs...Blue Black Splash Ameraucana AND Sumatra/Game mixes and I think Tom is OK with it. I told him I wanted to and he just sort of looked sideways at me. He misses our old rooster too and since I have found homes for all of the chicks that we have hatched so far I think he is OK with the hatching since it doesn't mean we keep them all. Now to get the eggs here without sending them through the PO...hmmm

It is still in the talking stages but I think it is going to work out!

 

[randerson846]

Good luck what are blue black spanish Ameraucanas like ? Any pcs

 

[tommysgirl]

Good luck

what are blue black spanish Ameraucanas like ? Any pcs

Blue Black Splash Ameraucana Here you go!

 

[randerson846]

Theyre pretty nice, i might get a few of those eggs, next hatch

 

[tommysgirl]

Theyre pretty nice, i might get a few of those eggs, next hatch

Now picture them silkied...ohhh la la

And it is getting closer to a reality. The gal from whom I get my Delawares and my Dorkings might be going to a BYC party where the gal with the eggs is also planning to attend. I have sent my contact a message promising her a bottle of wine for her trouble if she can bring the eggs back with her and deliver them to another BYC guy who will hatch them for me in his bator!

Also I sent Tom this picture:

The Chicks are half this ^ Grey Game. And as luck will have it, this guy looks very much like our Ray who was the rooster by whom all other roosters around here fall short. Here is Ray. Picture the Game boy with a heavier body. He died just a little over a year ago and Tom misses him too.


I am not playing fair teehee.

I put Jamie Lee Curtis and her eggs (7 of them after all) in a dog crate in the feed shed with water and food. She will move into the broody pen with the chicks once Norma is out of there...I think Sat or Sunday. I feel so badly for Norma. she will be suddenly chickless but I am told that she will be fine. Always before I have had the chicks stay with mama till they were weaned but this time they all sold/will be sold at 3 weeks. Maybe Norms will go broody again soon and next time she will keep chicks til she kicks em to the curb herself.

Chicks are due Saturday!!!!

 

[chickencrazy999]

Hello Team Broody!,
So some eggciting news Yesterday I went and bought two white silkie bantam growers which are unsexed but I am very pleased with them and they are very friendly and as I mentioned earlier I had bought a pair of white silkie bantams which are doing great and the cockerel that I have decided to name Muppet and the hen Maddy have all been getting on very nicely so now I have a lovely little family of silkie bantams
three hens Milly,Muffin and Maddy a cockerel Muppet,Two mixed colour chicks Bramble and Angel and then two white silkie growers which I have not got names for yet but any suggestions well come. And also I have now set eight white silkie bantam hatching eggs under Muffin after her second time being broody and they are due to hatch May 24-25 which will be very exiting here are a couple of pics of the newcomers and the chicks :

Ella - Oops, I see you posted while I was typing! Ignore the name ideas then.

They are all soooooo adorable!!!!

Hey Thanks so much I love the pics of your chickens they are gorgeous and look very happy!

 

[chickencrazy999]

Chicken Crazy999
I love your silkies, they are beautiful!

Marie

Thanks good luck with your two new broodys!

 

[chickencrazy999]

Again, not an expert of any sort, but in case it's of any help - I am in a similar situation with Bonnie, who is a last year's hatch and has never been broody before - but she is currently sitting, has been for over a week... I hope that she stays, and I plan to put in 20+ eggs in the incubator on Friday... here's my plan:

-give Bonnie a few eggs of her own (instead of the golf ball she is currently trying to hatch, lol) at the same time - I think she is more likely to stay after they start developing, or at least I think they feel it

-set up a brooder with the heat lamp next door to Bonnie's "apartment" (not sure if you have seen my setup, it's basically 3 separate enclosures next to each other, I can repost the photo if you want

-provided Bonnie stays (not much to do there but hope and pray), do a test with a couple of bator chickies first - if all works out, bring in the rest of them

-if she takes them on but can't cover them, remove the "wall" between "apartments" - it would basically become double the space, and chickies could warm up under the heat lamp if needed, or move away from it if not cold... it's getting very warm here, so this would only be needed for a very short time initially, and then only at night for a few weeks

-if she doesn't take them on, go with plan B and keep them separate (though still next door) - watch like a hawk the first couple of days (should be the weekend) and, if she is mean to the bator chicks, separate the outdoor area as well. I really doubt it will come to this though, she has a sweet chickenality, even while broody (i.e. she doesn't try to take off my hand when I lift her/bring her food, etc.)

I don't know what your setup is, but hopefully my plan sparks some ideas for you as well... I do advise to be ready with a brooder all set up just in case, because yeah, that is a lot of chicks.

Hey that sounds like a pretty good idea so you are going to let her hatch her eggs then once they hatch slip some of the bator chicks under her is that right or have I got it wrong Maybe you could put the eggs from the bator under her at day 19-20 then they would hatch under her but I honestly do not know do what you think is best and I hope it turns out good!
Ella

 

[DeborahOBE]

Hi everyone,
I have just spent three days reading through this thread and it's been emotional. You guys have been through lots of tears and happiness together!
I live in the UK and I have 8 chickens in my back garden- 2 pekin hens, 2 buff laced wyandotte hens, 2 silver spangled Hamburg hens, a lavender pekin cockerel and a random frizzle cockerel of unknown origin. About nine days ago, one of the pekins went broody and is sat on 12 eggs- some hers, some belonging to other chickens in the flock.
All seems to be well and she's not leaving the nest much, except about once a day (I know because I see the massive poo in the run). During the day I have taken to shutting her section of the hen house so the other chickens can't get in. This was mainly because the other chickens kept laying in her box (hence the 12 eggs). The other chickens have taken to laying eggs in all sorts of random places in the garden and even eating a few. I've tried to discourage this by placing rubber eggs in a nest box in their run and also filling a blown egg with mustard and chilli. For now it seems to have worked.....
I'm very nervous about this whole process and it's been a real help to read through all your experiences. Any advice you could give would be gratefully received- this is all new to me!
Thank you for reading,
Deb

 

[chickencrazy999]

Hello Deb,
Well come to the Team It all sounds good maybe you could put some tempory nesting boxes in the coop for your other girls to lay in when did you set the eggs under your hen because I set the eggs under my broody silkie bantam on the 3rd of May so we might just be a few days apart is the broody the one in your profile pic?