Hatching with 2 broodies

[texgardengal]

Yes. She is her Mommas girl! Hahaha I'm a little slow!!
Question Teila....I'm glad we have the same coop as I was wondering if the door is too steep for the littles to get in and out on their own??? How did Tina and Suzi do when they were little bitty. Did you have to adjust the height??

 

[tommysgirl]

Yes. She is her Mommas girl! Hahaha I'm a little slow!!

Cookie is too darned cute I love her expression and I am dying to add some splash to my flock. She is a pretty baby

Congrats on you babies TGG excellent hatch rate, glad you got your penguin...x9

Liz I got 16 eggs on Thursday! I have one molter and my Delaware who never lays normally but everyone else has laid at least on egg in the last 5 days. Far cry from the 3 a day I got during the GED

TGG you asked how many I have now and here are my pens:

Two Dorkings Jamie Lee Curtis and Joan Baez and a Mutt named Norma
A New Hampshire rooster and his 7 ladies...sold my two Icelandics so that will be 5 tomorrow
My Delaware Rooster Ozzie and his 9 girls plus the 3 cockerels Beakface hatched in October
A second New Hampshire rooter with two EE girls
This chick if I get him/her back from my aunt...we will see on that

So what is the total??? Is that 25 today?? Tomorrow it will be 23. But I have it on good authority that I only have to count hens and pullets so really I have 21 but come tomorrow I will have 19

I am planning to add two NH girls and there are oodles of egg contacts I have made for hatching eggs when my broodies have proven themselves worthy.


Teila I heart your little fluffballs. Sweet of you to contact the breeder. Maybe she forgot you were using a broody and said "overcooked" because so many chicken hatchers use a bator. I don't think a broody can overcook anyone.

I have to get my camera down to my aunt's coop this week and get pictures of what I hope will be the happy little family. Leaving them alone to bond right now and hoping mama continues to care for LC/Forrest.

 

[tommysgirl]

I spoke too soon.

 

[lizgarf]

Oh no, TG!! I'm so sorry. Seems like so much can go wrong with these little guys.

 

[Teila]

Question Teila....I'm glad we have the same coop as I was wondering if the door is too steep for the littles to get in and out on their own??? How did Tina and Suzi do when they were little bitty. Did you have to adjust the height??

When they were tiny they were only allowed out on supervised free ranges and while they could run down the ramp following Cilla, they did have problems getting back up; we just used to put Cilla back in the Ranch and then pick the little ones up and pop them in with her; it used to take two of us!

Having said that, the little bitty bantams who are not yet a week old can run to the top of the ramp in the Chateau, which would be the same height as the ranch, without any dramas. The only problem is they have not worked out that it leads back to their sleepy spot. Cilla has tried to teach them but she jumps on the ramp and runs up it so fast they miss what she is doing and are running around looking for her while she is calling them from the nest box *sigh* lols. Again, we pick them up and pop them in with mumma. They will eventually work it out! lol

 

[Teila]

I spoke too soon.

Aaaw, TG, No! Please tell me "I spoke too soon" just means that you now have a little house chick??

 

[texgardengal]

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worry worry worry
Me too Teila....Hopefully it is just a house chick again.....
Quote: Thanks for clearing that up....I was scratching my head on that one too. TG you said you sold your two Icelandics. Is that one of them in your avatar?
Teila...thanks for the info on the "ramp". I have not finished the new chicken yard. we've enlarged and will be moving the big coop into it...hopefully tomorrow. Until I get it moved I have to leave Molly in the little coop. I hate that she's stuck in there all the time but I dont have a top on the yard yet (waiting for the concrete to set on the supports) so I'm afraid to move them into it and dont want to move her into the current yard and then have to move them again. The barn has a concrete floor so I it's not really a good place to let her out. Hopefully I can move the coop into the new yard tomorrow and can put her and the bubbies in the new yard and make them a "little's yard" to roam around. The yard fencing is just a little to big for them right now and they could get through so I'm going to have to make a "littles's" yard in my big yard. If that makes any sense.

 

[Teila]

worry worry worry
Me too Teila....Hopefully it is just a house chick again.....
Thanks for clearing that up....I was scratching my head on that one too. TG you said you sold your two Icelandics. Is that one of them in your avatar?
Teila...thanks for the info on the "ramp". I have not finished the new chicken yard. we've enlarged and will be moving the big coop into it...hopefully tomorrow. Until I get it moved I have to leave Molly in the little coop. I hate that she's stuck in there all the time but I dont have a top on the yard yet (waiting for the concrete to set on the supports) so I'm afraid to move them into it and dont want to move her into the current yard and then have to move them again. The barn has a concrete floor so I it's not really a good place to let her out. Hopefully I can move the coop into the new yard tomorrow and can put her and the bubbies in the new yard and make them a "little's yard" to roam around. The yard fencing is just a little to big for them right now and they could get through so I'm going to have to make a "littles's" yard in my big yard. If that makes any sense.

Makes total sense TGG and sounds like a top plan. I agree moving her around too much is not a good idea; giving them the littlies yard in the big yard should work nicely.

On the weekend, I opened the A frame door into the supervised free range area I made for Cilla and the bubbies; within two minutes one of the bubbies was on the wrong side of the fence! lol.
The little munchkin just hopped straight through the wire! Mumma called him/her and he/she just hopped back through
Mental note to self: do not do that again until they have grown a little! :-D

Hhhhhm, the breeder knew the eggs were for Cilla and Cilla was also in the photos I sent her .. very strange; as I said, I had never even heard of over cooking. Anyway, it is done now; Que Sera Sera

Back to work and fretting that TG's news is not as bad as it looks; I will check back later.

 

[tommysgirl]

Sorry to leave you wondering.

I am not sure what happened. I went out to check about 3 hours later and it was lying in the middle of the coop cold and lifeless. It must have been there when I checked earlier?? Could it have become cold enough to die in just 3 hours? It was in the mid 40s. sigh... I thought giving it to a her would be best and I guess sometimes it is clearly not this time.

I am comforted by the thought that this little one was lonely and it spent its last night under a warm feathery body cuddled with a friend.

 

[Teila]

Sorry to leave you wondering.

I am not sure what happened. I went out to check about 3 hours later and it was lying in the middle of the coop cold and lifeless. It must have been there when I checked earlier?? Could it have become cold enough to die in just 3 hours? It was in the mid 40s. sigh... I thought giving it to a her would be best and I guess sometimes it is clearly not this time.

I am comforted by the thought that this little one was lonely and it spent its last night under a warm feathery body cuddled with a friend.

Aaaaw TG, I am so so sorry to hear that; trying not to cry at work