March BROODY hatchings- JOIN IN!!

[cherylcohen]

anyone want to join...mine should be hatching on/around March 25, she is sitting on 5 breeds - 14 eggs

3 speckled sussex
3 white orpingtons
3 sicilian buttercups
3 barnevelders
2 silver laced wyandotte

Meet mabel she's a buff orpington and the most devoted broody, finally I got her off her nest at 5 days...argh

 

[teddiliza]

I have a d'uccle that is looking pretty serious, so I'm letting her try it....She pecks harder than I thought! Due about the same time as yours....

 

[ibpboo]

Mabel is a sweet girl!
Good luck with the hatch!

 

[fordmommy]

Long story but my now broody hen has 1 egg under her. It is to hatch Thursday. All is going well.

 

[teddiliza]

I had to sneak a peek so I stole one egg and WOOHOO it had great veins! She has 4 pure and one mixed under her. (Spitzhauben is the only white one) I was a bit unsure because this little porcelain d'uccle broody leaves the nest every morning to chow on some scratch I throw out, but she gets back to it after a little while. She sure did get mad at me! I had to use the flashlight as a lightsaber to distract her from my hand as I slipped the egg back under her. Made me feel like DarthVAder or something, she did.

 

[cherylcohen]

Mabels had quite an adventure, here's her thread if you care to follow. so we have an incubator and mabel, day 5 today https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=304097&p=1

Mabel

3 speckled sussex
1 white orpingtons
1 sicilian buttercups
1 barnevelders

Incubator

2 white Orpingtons
2 sicilian buttercups
2 barnevelders
2 Silver Laced Wyandotte

 

[8wishbonechicks]

OOooo she is a pretty momma to be! Congrats!! I'll be following your thread!

 

[cherylcohen]

cool thanks it's a roller coaster!