Well, I put 4 chicks under each broody at sunset and in the am there was only one chick under the broody in the coop... she had been on the nest for just about 2 weeks. 2 were on the floor shivering and one had found it's way out of the coop into the real cold but was fine. So I took the four of them and put them with the other four under the other broody, (the one that rejected the Easter chicks) and she took to them all like a wonderful mama.
I put the other broody into the juvie pen to break her. She got on a nest in there for a while but it hit 104 today and she gave it up and stands around the waterers like the rest in that pen. The Easter chicks are all panting.
I turned on the AC again in the main coop. Got 7 eggs PLUS my black sumatra hatched on Dec. 10th laid her first little boof egg today... that or the Icelandic laid a boof egg.
It's just too dang hot for April. We tied a record high from 1989 with the 103 yesterday and it's an outright record with 104 today.
I hope I don't have dead chickens. They all have COLD water in the grow out pens.... the ones with the AC in the coop are surviving.
I put the other broody into the juvie pen to break her. She got on a nest in there for a while but it hit 104 today and she gave it up and stands around the waterers like the rest in that pen. The Easter chicks are all panting.
I turned on the AC again in the main coop. Got 7 eggs PLUS my black sumatra hatched on Dec. 10th laid her first little boof egg today... that or the Icelandic laid a boof egg.
It's just too dang hot for April. We tied a record high from 1989 with the 103 yesterday and it's an outright record with 104 today.
I hope I don't have dead chickens. They all have COLD water in the grow out pens.... the ones with the AC in the coop are surviving.
