Kiki's found horse eggs—experiment Round 2

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I have a large batch in lockdown due to begin hatching tonight.
There were 4 Cochin babies to hatch in their outdoor pen just before this last rain. I snatched them up and put them with the last incubator hatch.
Here is why: Three Cochin hens are brooding together on the floor in one corner of the coop. They had mixed their clutches stealing back and forth. Another hen decided to brood in the opposite corner. She was stealing some of their eggs too. No way to determine the developmental stages so I let them do their thing knowing I would have to pull a hen and put her with the hatching chicks until each broody has a clutch to raise.
The nice characteristic about Cochins is they will take adoptions easily if you give them to her as her babies are hatching.
I actually had a Cochin/Wyandotte that hatched 5 but raised 25.
 
NanaKat said:
I have a large batch in lockdown due to begin hatching tonight.
There were 4 Cochin babies to hatch in their outdoor pen just before this last rain. I snatched them up and put them with the last incubator hatch.
Here is why: Three Cochin hens are brooding together on the floor in one corner of the coop. They had mixed their clutches stealing back and forth. Another hen decided to brood in the opposite corner. She was stealing some of their eggs too. No way to determine the developmental stages so I let them do their thing knowing I would have to pull a hen and put her with the hatching chicks until each broody has a clutch to raise.
The nice characteristic about Cochins is they will take adoptions easily if you give them to her as her babies are hatching.
I actually had a Cochin/Wyandotte that hatched 5 but raised 25.
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Oh my...so the 3 in the coop have mixed up eggs..all different stages?
This is going to be fun!
 

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