Hector's World: Adventures and Mayhem at Mountain View Poultry (or Sequel to The Evolution of Atlas

[speckledhen]

Yes, it is her first time. She is doing great, too, raising up for them, etc. DH helped me check the chicks. There are now 2 hatched and the last one is in the air cell, cheeping. One of the hatched ones has very dark leg fronts, yippee! So, looks like a pair, plus whatever comes out of egg #3.

 

[itspebbl]

Yay! Found this thread again after the switch un-subscribed me

 

[speckledhen]

Great! Glad you hitched back on again!

The other egg was pipped a couple of hours ago, so I expect a chick by the end of the day and I'll move her from that hospital cage to the other pen. She refused to settle when I tried yesterday. Some will and some won't.

I still cannot break up my blue partridge Brahma gal, Bonnie, on her 3rd go-round. She insists on staying in the file cabinet box in this ungodly hot weather. I pull her out at least 10x each day and put her in a pan of water.

 

[GingersHuman]

Yay to the new chicks! Do you candle your eggs when hatching with a broody?

 

[speckledhen]

Yay to the new chicks! Do you candle your eggs when hatching with a broody?

Yes, I do candle them, same times as I would in an incubator.

 

[GingersHuman]

Yes, I do candle them, same times as I would in an incubator.

I need to learn how to do this. I'm not sure how these last eggs I sat are going to do.

 

[speckledhen]

Lizzie has three chicks and she has been moved into the spare pen so she has more air flow. The last one I'm calling male on immediately. It's positively silver! Sigh. One pullet, two cockerels. Same as I have now approaching 12 weeks old and I need Drew and the Hector son gone ASAP. I'm really getting tired. And as we've been looking at properties (online and drive-bys only so far) that may be more elderly friendly, I may have to downsize, somewhat painfully, soon.

 

[BantyChooks]

Lizzie has three chicks and she has been moved into the spare pen so she has more air flow. The last one I'm calling male on immediately. It's positively silver! Sigh. One pullet, two cockerels. Same as I have now approaching 12 weeks old and I need Drew and the Hector son gone ASAP. I'm really getting tired. And as we've been looking at properties (online and drive-bys only so far) that may be more elderly friendly, I may have to downsize, somewhat painfully, soon.

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks, appreciate it. I need to have four pens, really, not seven, plus a few broody spaces that are not really pens, per se. Older hens, truly crippled older hens, Atlas with the laying flock, and my Partridge Brahmas. If I have to downsize and Atlas is still with me, Hector may have to be the male that goes, but I'm getting ahead of myself, really. For now, Hector has two more sons and a daughter that Lizzie will raise for me.

Thea is on Day 5 with her 5 Brahma eggs and I candled them in the nest, not even picking them up. All are developing and she is the most adorable hen, ever. Such a doll, even when broody! Love that Thea.

 

[speckledhen]

The Hector son, former mystery chick Drea/Drew (Drew, we all decided) out of Atlas, MaryJo, then Lizzie and the Hector/Jill babies.