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[featherz]

I really want to hatch again! It's addicting! I'd love to hatch silkies

. However, I have too many birds as it is /sigh. I still don't know where I am going to put all those guineas!

 

[emvickrey]

I'm in the same boat. I need to be able to separate mine into pens for the colors. Right now I have my young silkies, americauna's, phoenix and silkie crosses in the same pen as the Phoenix adults. They don't mind having youngins around. lol the others try to kill them. Then I have the teenagers in the west side of the coop and there are silkies, sizzles, frizzles, RIR and a black orpington in together. None are laying of course. I plan to put the RIR's in that side with the orpington and put the silkies in with their potential mates in separate pens. There will be a frizzle pen and the sizzles will be sold along with the others that didn't get chosen for breeding.

So basically my egg layers will be in the coop and the silkies, frizzles and phoenix will all have their own pens. DHjust has to find the time and materials to do it. lol

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

On day 19 with some splash silkie eggs and 2 gray silkie eggs.

 

[GlitterKitty]

I have a question, my broodies won't sit on their eggs that are due tomorrow if I move them out of the main coop, so can they just stay in the main coop with all the other chickens? Or should try and build a pen around them?

thanks

 

[Kedreeva]

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You can leave them there, but watch the other chickens to make sure that they don't go after the chicks when they're very young.

 

[ChksontheRun]

Lockdown on my 7 remaining Delaware eggs. At candle tonight I think two are quiters as they were not as dark toward the air sack. I sure hope the 5 left all hatch. Saw movement in 2........

 

[Doodle_Doo]

just saw this thread :S im way late..
im just about to put some eggs tomorrow
malaysian seramas and some mix of bearded silkies..

 

[Kedreeva]

Sweet, if you're still reading... *spasm* There are two peacock egg pips! *flail* I'm beside myself with excitement I can hardly type and I just KNOW I am going to get no sleep tonight! How will I survive being at work ALL DAY tomorrow D:

There's also one straggler duckling still hanging in there... please keep fingers crossed, he is having a hard time of it. He pipped in a weird place (right on the border of the air cell) and now seems to have scraped a vein... there was blood on the paper towel when I went to check on him a little bit ago, but he's still breathing. I want him to live

 

[Cattitude]

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*sends hatching goodvibes*

 

[Mrs. K]

Caretta

I have a question, my broodies won't sit on their eggs that are due tomorrow if I move them out of the main coop, so can they just stay in the main coop with all the other chickens?

I have a similar problem. My two broodie hens are sitting as tight as ticks, and I do not want to risk it. Last year I moved one, and 3 days later she moved back, and we lost the eggs. SOOOO this is what I am going to do. The two girls are due to hatch the same day, and they have never squabbled or fought, so

I am hoping that continues. I have 3 hens that are laying in the box next to them, they are Star crosses, and might be a bit aggressive to the babies. So the night before 20 days, I am going to lock them in the run, but they will have to roost outside, I will lock the coop up against them. It is July here, and warm enough. Then the next morning, I will let them out to free range, and then when they are gone, I will open to the coop, to hopefully happy mothers of chicks.

Then for the next night I plan to repeat, locking the mothers in the coop, and the layers in the run.

Hope this works. I don't really have any other way of seperating them. MrsK​