Lets talk about our current broodies :) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chicks4kids]

I've got my first broody of the year and to be honest I thought it would have been one of the other experienced mothers. This is this australorps first time at being a mama. I had noticed her "thinking" about going broody for about a week and a half before she ultimately committed to it...now she's in confinement on day 6 of her brood in my garage. Here she is sitting on 6 eggs that I will candle tomorrow....

 

[happyhens44]

Sorry I have not been commenting lately So ill get to that

 

[happyhens44]

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Mines a australorp almost identical

how Update on how the candle went

 

[happyhens44]

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YES! you can join the club

Pics???

 

[happyhens44]

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Updates!

 

[Livinwright Farm]

I decided not to candle them, I will just wait it out. If any hatch out I will post pics. I will start the intense chick watch starting Feb. 3rd, though not expecting to see any until around the 6th.

 

[chicks4kids]

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I decided ONE time that I wasn't going to candle and it just so happened that none of those eggs were developing. Of course I didn't know it and my poor Wookie girl sat for 23 days...and still no babies. So I candled them just to see and they were all bad. I gave her more eggs to sit on and 21 days later she hatched out her babies. I learned from that moment on that I would always candle the eggs on day 7 at least. That hen sat for 45 days total... I was pretty sure she would set the extra 21 days cuz she'd hatched out before. She knew the routine....scrambled eggs and vitamin water every day plus a 5-10 minute off the nest potty break. It was still a nail biting experience though.

 

[chicks4kids]

So this morning I candled and all 6 eggs are alive and growing!

So my broody is due to hatch on the 13th of Feb.

 

[Livinwright Farm]

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I decided ONE time that I wasn't going to candle and it just so happened that none of those eggs were developing. Of course I didn't know it and my poor Wookie girl sat for 23 days...and still no babies. So I candled them just to see and they were all bad. I gave her more eggs to sit on and 21 days later she hatched out her babies. I learned from that moment on that I would always candle the eggs on day 7 at least. That hen sat for 45 days total... I was pretty sure she would set the extra 21 days cuz she'd hatched out before. She knew the routine....scrambled eggs and vitamin water every day plus a 5-10 minute off the nest potty break. It was still a nail biting experience though.

If none of the eggs under her or the other hens have hatched out by the time the eggs in my bator do, I will do a ninja switch(remove the duds with one hand insert newly hatched chicks with the other)

She will never know.....

 

[happyhens44]

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I decided ONE time that I wasn't going to candle and it just so happened that none of those eggs were developing. Of course I didn't know it and my poor Wookie girl sat for 23 days...and still no babies. So I candled them just to see and they were all bad. I gave her more eggs to sit on and 21 days later she hatched out her babies. I learned from that moment on that I would always candle the eggs on day 7 at least. That hen sat for 45 days total... I was pretty sure she would set the extra 21 days cuz she'd hatched out before. She knew the routine....scrambled eggs and vitamin water every day plus a 5-10 minute off the nest potty break. It was still a nail biting experience though.

If none of the eggs under her or the other hens have hatched out by the time the eggs in my bator do, I will do a ninja switch(remove the duds with one hand insert newly hatched chicks with the other)

She will never know.....

I could see you doing that! hahaha