Kiki's found horse eggs—experiment Round 2

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debid said:
We don't skimp on laundry detergent or antiperspirant. :lau

Seriously, not only is it humid in general in middle TN, but living by water means I feel the thickness of the air sometimes and we have patchy, dense fog seasonally. However, visiting Florida in August gave me perspective. You haven't experienced humidity until you've stepped off a comfortably air conditioned plane into a tropical sauna. :sick
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I would die. Literally I...would...die.

We went to Mississippi in March several years ago. Yes the air felt heavy and the towels felt damp before even using them.
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21hens-incharge said:
I would die. Literally I...would...die.

We went to Mississippi in March several years ago. Yes the air felt heavy and the towels felt damp before even using them.
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Come visit SE Texas! :lau

We have one of the world's best medical centers here!
 
KikisGirls said:
Oh ok...
I didn't know they (DC) were chipmunkie.
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Yup, here's some good closeups of some of the ones I've hatched before. The breeder I got the parents from has a theory that the girls have darker lines as chicks.
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RUNuts said:
We lounge around in the shade under the coop. Dig down to the wet dirt and lay in that. The misters just don't work here. We get soaked standing around. Beats shoveling snow with frozen fingers! :D

I've piled mulch up around the ramp and the nest boxes for the soon to hatch feed store chicks fresh from Ideal. Assuming she adopts them. Do I need to worry about the other hens? I'll be working on Wednesday morning and won't be able to watch.

Second question, this broody is playing musical nests. The golf balls are chasing here when I collect the eggs. But out of 4 nests, she has sat in 3 for the 2 weeks she has been sitting. If these were real eggs, they'd be done. Is this just her seeking eggs and not golf balls or what? @Ursuline Chick
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I am not sure, our "bad" broody just wouldn't sit on the nest in the broody box. Once she settled in the nest in the coop that she had been sitting on, we just placed her eggs under her and she stayed until hatch. Now, remember I spent hatch day in a chicken coop all day to make sure the earily hatchers didn't jump two feet to the floor, and she stayed on the nest instead of getting off the nest to follow the first hatchers, That's what my other broody had done, leaving 3 pipped eggs that were placed under the broody in the coop. At night fall we moved the broody, hatched chicks and unhatched eggs to the broody box. 2 eggs had pipped at that time. next morning those two had hatched, broody was off the nest, leaving 1 pipped egg (which we hatched ourselves) and 4 duds, DH did eggtopsy said 2 had not really started to grow and 2 had stopped growing lest than mid way threw. so 10 out of 14 I thought was pretty good. Considering. Do you want your hen to hatch eggs. If so I would remove the golf balls, see if she will sit on fresh eggs fertile and move her if you have a broody box at night well after dark, see if she stays on the nest next morning. If not you could try to let her brood in the coop if you think that's a good idea. Remember to mark your eggs in case another hen lays in that box or your broody steals eggs form other boxes, you will know which to remove. Good luck with whatever you decide. let me know if I missed what you were asking, not an expert, but happy to share what I can.
 
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Told DH last night that I will eat chick starter for a week if one of our hatchlings isn't a cockerel. He is flying all over, even on top of mom when she is standing, Chest bumping other chicks, not listening to mom very well, and generally flapping his wings to get other chicks to do what he wants. Will try to send pics tomorrow, tried to pick him up yesterday and mom bit the sh*t out of me, still have bite marks this morning! :lau:lau
 
Redhead Rae said:
I he going to hold you to that? ;)
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Actually I said I would eat chick starter for a week. :lau this little guy has copper all over his wing fathers already, at less than 2 weeks old. I just need help getting good pics so y'all can see. Don't mind the hen bites have gotten them before, no big deal, occasionally they draw blood. :lau:lau Glad she is a fiesty mom
 
Ursuline Chick said:
Actually I said I would eat chick starter for a week. :lau this little guy has copper all over his wing fathers already, at less than 2 weeks old. I just need help getting good pics so y'all can see. Don't mind the hen bites have gotten them before, no big deal, occasionally they draw blood. :lau:lau Glad she is a fiesty mom
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I personally don't let any hen that bites people hatch eggs. I break them instead. I've had two really good moms that attacked anything that came after her babies, except people.
 

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