Juune Hatch-A-Long

[ChickyChickens]

I think she's been sitting for 7 days but I don't know!!!
I'm soo glad that she has soo many!
She is a mutt but she is very big so she can fir many eggs under her body!

 

[ChickyChickens]

Anyway I have another problem...... Chicks will be coming out of my ears soon!
I have 5 broodies!
1 Is in the chicken coop with 15 eggs!
2 The other is in the chicken coop with 21 eggs!
3 One is in the field with 16 eggs!
4 Is in the rabbit hutch with 19 eggs!
5 IS in the garden with 23 eggs!
So many eggs and the are all due in a 14 day period! Its going to be hard! But I will love it!!!

 

[Angiebubs]

ChickyCHic: Do you raise meat birds? Or what do you do with the roos? It never fails I fall in love with the boys.....and so hard to re home.

 

[ChickyChickens]

I just raise chickens for the joy of having them in my garden. I don't keep all the roos. I do also fall on love with them but I swap them with my neighbours got hens. I swap one adult roo for two hens.

 

[Angiebubs]

Wow thats an awesome set up. Around here it would probably be 2 roos for 1 hen!!


When do you all candle your eggs during the incubation? Do you still do this with broodies incubating?

 

[MizzC1]

Yes, I will be candling them on day 8....they are fairly dark brown so hopefully I can still see inside ok. I did crack the last ones and thye hadn't developed at all. I'm not sure how long they went before incubation, but the farmer made a comment that if they were stored in cool temp they could go months.....this went against what i had researched but figured he would know.....my new ones are very fresh so I have high hopes!!

 

[Angiebubs]

Mizz-I cant wait-I think I will try candling and weighing mine Sunday-which would make day 7 or 8 (put them under the hens Sat afternoon). I weighed all of mine and marked them-put it all into a spreadsheet LOL Can you tell Im excited?

 

[Wishapup]

3 chicks due in about 7-8 days now. Hen is still sitting.

 

[ChickyChickens]

Wow thats an awesome set up. Around here it would probably be 2 roos for 1 hen!!


When do you all candle your eggs during the incubation? Do you still do this with broodies incubating?

Around here roosters are very valuable. They get eaten by our neighbours. They say our roosters taste very good.
I candle my eggs on day 8 if I now the date the hen went broody. If If i don't know then I candle 2 - 4 days after I find the hen!!!!

 

[Angiebubs]

This morning when I went out at 6:30, there was an egg on the floor in the broody pen. I know it was under her when I closed up the coop at 8 pm. The eggs are on Day 3 or 4-how much impact will this have on the development? This hen has 9 eggs under here and is a large Orpington-she should be able to handle that many correct? (Shes a proven broody hen)