MGG's Hatching Thread!

[human1]

They're so sweet!!! ❤
What do you think about baby #3? Do you think Rain(boe) is pure, or mixed with an Orpington? I know #1 is not ours, but I'm 99% positive that baby #2 is pure. #3, Idk.

Wait. What?! Where?!?!

Look at your namesake.
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Thanks Emma. I have 10 replacement eggs though!

awww!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Yeah. I just threw her back in the run, hopefully she calms down. Otherwise, to broody jail with her.
I was nervous that this might happen. Luckily, (or not luckily, however you want to view it, lol) I have two other broodies to try.
I put Ash (one of the new broodies) in the broody coop with rocks under her. She's sold on the rocks. She's not very bright.
She's been broody for about a week, @CluckNDoodle do you think I could try to put these chicks under her soon? She's always been a really docile thing so I think she'd be nice, but Idk.

I usually have the best luck when putting chicks under the broody hens wings after dark. It's not like they don't know I'm doing it but at night they just seem more chill about it. Also the younger the chicks, the better. The older they get the less likely they will be to bond with the hen.

 

[MGG]

I usually have the best luck when putting chicks under the broody hens wings after dark. It's not like they don't know I'm doing it but at night they just seem more chill about it. Also the younger he chicks, the better. The older they get the less likely they will be to bond with the hen.

It was last night, so the babies were only 2 or 3 days old. I tried around 10 p.m. she clucked to them a lot and they were following her, when she turned around to face them and all hell broke loose. It was scary.
I don't know. I've never done it before but I think I did it right?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

What do you think about baby #3? Do you think Rain(boe) is pure

I would say no, those are some bright green legs.

 

[MGG]

I would say no, those are some bright green legs.

Ok. So you think she's crossed with the BBS Orpington? That was the only thing she could have been mixed with.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Ok. So you think she's crossed with the BBS Orpington? That was the only thing she could have been mixed with.

Maybe? I’m not sure, I wouldn’t think you could get green legs from that cross, but I have no clue how green legs work lol, only that Ameraucanas don’t have them.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

They're so sweet!!! ❤
What do you think about baby #3? Do you think Rain(boe) is pure, or mixed with an Orpington? I know #1 is not ours, but I'm 99% positive that baby #2 is pure. #3, Idk.

Wait. What?! Where?!?!

Look at your namesake.
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The lamp made her sleepy. ❤View attachment 2620146View attachment 2620148

Thanks Emma. I have 10 replacement eggs though!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

 

[MGG]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

I love them. ❤
Oh! I named baby #1 Sapphire. So she doesn't accuse me of plagiarism again, @Odd came up with the name.
But it fits her so well. Everytime I call her I think of you.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

It was last night, so the babies were only 2 or 3 days old. I tried around 10 p.m. she clucked to them a lot and they were following her, when she turned around to face them and all hell broke loose. It was scary.
I don't know. I've never done it before but I think I did it right?

You probably did. Every hen is just different. I've had hens that will only accept chicks that hatch under them and I've also had hens that were just bad broodies, period.

 

[MarshyRooster]

Sapphire is such a cute name! I'm so sorry your hen didn't accept the chicks. They're pretty picky, really. Like me, but with chicks instead of food.