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[newduckie]

posted in april hatch along also since it technically is an April baby.. barely...
I am in a pickle... I had a broody on one egg. I didnt want any more babies, so I took all the eggs but one. It hatched this morning.. I worked a double, so when I got home a bit ago, I went out into the dark....scary.... to check on it. It was alone and mom was up on the roost with the rest of the chickens. It was all huddled and so I put her back on it and she freaked out and flipped it out onto the floor. I brought it to the house... I DO NOT want to raise a single chick. It is cheeping like crazy.. I gave it a little stuffed animal to get in under.. but it is soooo loud. I know it is lonely. I have another hen that is setting, but she keeps swithcing nests and leaving her eggs behind.. I wonder about seeing if she will take it, but I worry that she is to stupid to set on eggs, how will she be able to care for a baby, but the one that hatched it was a great setter and look how she turned out.... Thought I might do something tomorrow.. To tired tonight.

 

[newlyweds]

Oh no sorry to hear about that broody hen, maybe if you separate her from the rest of the hens she will take on her motherly duties. I hope you have the chick a safe and warm place to sleep tonight.

 

[BLaBauve]

Mine are due May 20th. I have 12 Ameraucanas (white & b/s) & 12 Blue/Splash Orps. I set them tonight!

 

[Gypsylion]

Just candled at day 7 - 29/42 are alive! I could see a few of them swimming around all over the place (they're going to be my little explorers, I think), and one had a really clear visible heartbeat!

I'm so excited!

 

[chickintexas]

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Woohoo!! That's way cool!

 

[cluckcluck42]

Candled today and only one doesn't look like it is growing out of 39. I even saw one little guy dancing around, which I haven't seen before. I love this new flashlight!!

 

[chickintexas]

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How many days in are they?

 

[newduckie]

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yeah, it is here in the house. I still had up the heat lamp from the baby geese, so it has a water thing.. food and a teddy bear to cuddle.

 

[newduckie]

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yeah, it is here in the house. I still had up the heat lamp from the baby geese, so it has a water thing.. food and a teddy bear to cuddle.

well, on the porch that is... but it is warm

 

[kelseygirl707]

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Put a mirror in with it, that's what I did, and my little Kevin settle right down, and now she is 6 weeks and still loves to see herself in the mirror!