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[Fire Ant Farm]

Quick question:

I've been collecting more eggs to set from my Cream Legbar girl (plan to set about 8). I have 20 chicks coming from a breeder - she's going to set them so they are due March 29 (which means they will be set March 8 or 9 - I need to check my calendar again).

I'd like to set my eggs so my chicks will be the same age as the chicks that are coming, and then put them all together to brood. Alternatively I could set these eggs a little earlier (like today).

Anyone have any comments? Thoughts? It would be a serious struggle to try to brood the chicks separately, hence this idea to put them together...

- Ant Farm

 

[mrleeroy]

Will you be my fwend?

Thought I already was

 

[BullChick]

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[BullChick]

Quick question:

I've been collecting more eggs to set from my Cream Legbar girl (plan to set about 8). I have 20 chicks coming from a breeder - she's going to set them so they are due March 29 (which means they will be set March 8 or 9 - I need to check my calendar again).

I'd like to set my eggs so my chicks will be the same age as the chicks that are coming, and then put them all together to brood. Alternatively I could set these eggs a little earlier (like today).

Anyone have any comments? Thoughts? It would be a serious struggle to try to brood the chicks separately, hence this idea to put them together...

- Ant Farm

Yes, you can set them today. A week apart is not a big deal, and some people go to two weeks. So a few days is nothing. Besides, babies aren't always on time.

 

[mrleeroy]

Quick question:

I've been collecting more eggs to set from my Cream Legbar girl (plan to set about 8). I have 20 chicks coming from a breeder - she's going to set them so they are due March 29 (which means they will be set March 8 or 9 - I need to check my calendar again).

I'd like to set my eggs so my chicks will be the same age as the chicks that are coming, and then put them all together to brood. Alternatively I could set these eggs a little earlier (like today).

Anyone have any comments? Thoughts? It would be a serious struggle to try to brood the chicks separately, hence this idea to put them together...

- Ant Farm

I am actually brooding chicks at the moment, and they are a little over 3 weeks apart. The month-olds look like giants compared to the week-olds but they are doing OK together. I didn't put them together until the newest ones were about 3 days old though just to let them get a little stronger. This is just my experience though.

 

[mrleeroy]

 

[deserteggs22]

HELP!!!
I have an egg that is pipping the wrong end!!! What do I do?

 

[mrleeroy]

HELP!!!
I have an egg that is pipping the wrong end!!! What do I do?

MALPOSITIONS /PIPS WRONG END are the first to pip and the last DIS after hatch post #19606
Malposition (pipped wrong end) chick most times will hatch! VIDEO post #22241
A WRONG END PIP IS BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL Pip! post #518454 VIDEO HATCHING post #54642

 

[kwhites634]

HELP!!!
I have an egg that is pipping the wrong end!!! What do I do?

Let it alone for now. Read about one a week or so ago that did the same thing & hatched just fine on its own.

 

[mrleeroy]

HELP!!!
I have an egg that is pipping the wrong end!!! What do I do?

A couple of hatches ago I had 6 of my 9 eggs do that. They all hatched just fine on their own.