June Hatch a Long

[chickydee64]

HI, I posted my next hatch a few nights ago and discovered I put it in the wrong thread...............
24 SLW's...12 in the inc.....12 under a broody.......shipped.......
24 of my own................and the 6 that broody started.
I forgot to mark on the calendar when I set the 24 of my own..................

I can kind of guess and will not raise humidity until I have a pip............
Real tired tonight.......will catch up tomorrow...........

 

[Breella]

One week until my Lock Down. Yesterday while candling to check if my lone egg was still alive it moved and got me very excited. I'm going to pick up one or two chicks from someone locally so this little one doesn't have to be raised alone.

 

[Alaskan]

What breeds will you pick?

 

[chickenpooplady]

where abouts in the buckeye are ya chickenpoop?

Southwestern Ohio.

 

[el pollo rey]

That would be spectacular, El!

I know right ,, I had completely wrote them off as a loss on day 9 and my iffy was just that iffy outta the 18 set one iffy sux I drove a long way to get them eggs from a fellow byc,er the line they breed is spectacular but they had just been turned out after winter lock up and the young roos need more Time I guess she is going to replace them for my July trip and jac is working on finding me the perfect Coranations for Sussex round two lol

 

[el pollo rey]

one of my sons attended the university of Dayton and now lives in miamisburgh

 

[chickenpooplady]

one of my sons attended the university of Dayton and now lives in miamisburgh

Cool!

 

[el pollo rey]

Cool!

. Yea I have been there to visit several times over the last few years it's a nice part of the state a good mix of city and country there are a few breeders of buckeye chickens around that area

 

[dolfi]

cant wait till my shipped eggs arrives of the frizzle bantams. I am getting so addicted to this hatching lol

 

[EggieRowe]

I have an odd, drawn out question with regards to a broody. I have 12 eggs in the incubator - 10 days old today. I have a Minorca that will not stop being broody. She was broody for two weeks in March, so I gave in and let her have eggs. She hatched them (even as a staggered hatch - human error, I added 4 more 4 days in). Even after they hatched she would leave the chicks to their own devices and try to sit on eggs in the raised nest boxes. So I confined her and the surviving chick until it was 6 weeks. She returned to the flock without any issues, but about a week later she started being broody again. It's now been two weeks again, she's still broody, but thin as a rail. I was thinking of transferring two eggs out of the incubator to her in hopes that another hatch might break her. I'm less worried about the eggs than if she would survive another clutch. If she loses the same proportional amount of weight, she will be transparent! I don't want to put ice cubes under her, wet her belly with cold water multiple times a day, or dangle her in a wire cage like a pinata in the coop. What are the odds that another hatch will stop her behavior vs. reinforce it? I figure with 10 day old eggs, 11 days won't be too rough on her - especially if it might end this madness.