June Hatch A Long

[CluckNDoodle]

We also have multiple broodies with eggs so I searched for this scenario on BYC as best I could. Multiple people reported issues from co-brooding, like one hen attacking the chicks that another hen hatched. It sounds like it’s working for CluckNDoodle though. I didn’t want to chance it and needed flock separation for 2 of my three as they were getting bullied, so mine are each separated.

Yeah, one of my hens is still raising her bitties in a box beside the other 3. (Edit: I should say she still sleeps with her bitties in the box beside the other 3, she's all over the yard with them during the day.)
My flock has seen a lot of chicks come and go though and I just put a young pullet in with them and they were unfazed. I have a very docile flock but I've never had this many broodies at once so we shall see...

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Yeah, one of my hens is still raising her bitties in a box beside the other 3. (Edit: I should say she still sleeps with her bitties in the box beside the other 3, she's all over the yard with them during the day.)
My flock has seen a lot of chicks come and go though and I just put a young pullet in with them and they were unfazed. I have a very docile flock but I've never had this many broodies at once so we shall see...

I wish our flock was docile... We christened our original five the “mean girls”, and subsequent chickens have picked up their bad habits...

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I wish our flock was docile... We christened our original five the “mean girls”, and subsequent chickens have picked up their bad habits...

I haven't been entirely without incident but I have zero tolerance for bullies. My girls live a very spoiled chicken life and if a bully decides to disrupt the peace they don't get to stay.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I haven't been entirely without incident but I have zero tolerance for bullies. My girls live a very spoiled chicken life and if a bully decides to disrupt the peace they don't get to stay.

At this point I think we’d have two hens left!

 

[SueT]

We christened our original five the “mean girls”,

What breed(s) are they?
and,

I have a very docile flock

What breed(s) are yours?

 

[Knighstar679]

Here are my day 11 candles. I don’t think 5 has any development. I see no wiggles or veins in it.



Here are my other 5 though they have wiggles going on and nice style of veins from what I can tell.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

At this point I think we’d have two hens left!

Lol! Oh no!! That's a lot of grumpy girls!

What breed(s) are they?
and,

What breed(s) are yours?

I have a very eclectic mixed flock. Easter Eggers, Olive Egger, Marans, Leghorns, English Orpingtons, Amberlink, Whiting's True Blue, Bantam Cochin, Blue Laced Wyandotte, and a Frizzle...I think that's it, for now, lol.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

What breed(s) are they?
and,

What breed(s) are yours?

The “mean girls” are a year old and we’re our addictive intro to chickens! A friend gave us eggs from her flock and loaned us her styrofoam incubator. They are backyard mutts, four white with black spots and one red, laying tan or tinted eggs. I thought that they were leghorn and production red mixes, but three have gone broody. They got along well with each other, but we wanted more! We bought purebreds (CCL, BCM, Ameraucana, silkies, east frisian gull), hatched ducks and guineas, then brooded those together. When we introduced them at two months old, after 1 month of look don’t touch, the mean girls were... mean. They didn’t try to kill them, they just picked on them if they looked at them wrong, tried to get to food first, walked in front of them, etc. They were only two months apart in age, and I had had no idea that the mean girls were bullies until then. I think that the newer pullets learned to be mean from them. The rooster I had always sided with the mean girls too, but roosting was more peaceful then. I have plenty of roost space, but getting the new chicks up there will not be fun, as each has now claimed about 5 feet of roost space, lol!

 

[AquaDuck]

The “mean girls” are a year old and we’re our addictive intro to chickens! A friend gave us eggs from her flock and loaned us her styrofoam incubator. They are backyard mutts, four white with black spots and one red, laying tan or tinted eggs. I thought that they were leghorn and production red mixes, but three have gone broody. They got along well with each other, but we wanted more! We bought purebreds (CCL, BCM, Ameraucana, silkies, east frisian gull), hatched ducks and guineas, then brooded those together. When we introduced them at two months old, after 1 month of look don’t touch, the mean girls were... mean. They didn’t try to kill them, they just picked on them if they looked at them wrong, tried to get to food first, walked in front of them, etc. They were only two months apart in age, and I had had no idea that the mean girls were bullies until then. I think that the newer pullets learned to be mean from them. The rooster I had always sided with the mean girls too, but roosting was more peaceful then. I have plenty of roost space, but getting the new chicks up there will not be fun, as each has now claimed about 5 feet of roost space, lol!

You did all of that in one year? You got bitten hard by the chicken virus. Haha!
Sorry to hear about your mean girls. Bullies really messes up things.

 

[AquaDuck]

So... I forgot about my Orpington eggs. Well, I thought they were hatching this weekend, but turns out it was yesterday. Oops! Luckily I looked at the calendar and took them off the turner on day 20. 3 healthy babies hatched. They'll spend the first week with some ducklings.