Michigan

[Mom 2em All]

To say Good Morning to me, Nova!

Tap, sorry to hear about your loss.

CONGRATS Theron!!!!

Raz- oooh, that sucks! Your neighbor will be on the phone with the law the second a cockerel makes a sound! Whats your game plan with the roos?

UMMMMM- BYFM- gross?

Stacykins- when I put my broody in a cage, she went insane..but finally once I thought the eggs were goners for sure, she settled down on them. And they even hatched.

Who had the bad broodies? I didnt quote and I am trying to wing it..anyhow, I have a bad broody,.Two of them, actually. A silkie and my sizzle. They always get up before its time and dont return. I gave them both second chances. The sizzle hatched *the one that freaked out in the cage*her second chance and the broody silkie didnt. My other silkie is rock-solid from start to finish. The bad silkie I will never give another chance. My sizzle, that is the one who had broken egg stuck to her chest and chased the blue pullet around. She never returned to broodyville. This was chance three. Strike three, shes out.
My frizzle looks dead. She is so far into broody-zen that she would fool unexperienced people and they would think I have a dead chicken in a rabbit cage. I will slip these d'uccle and gl polish eggs under her a few days before they are due to hatch.

Im sorry who I am forgetting. I had 70 unread posts when I got here this morning...

 

[taprock]

Do straw. I have had better luck with that. I have had to chicks get lost in the shavings..

and I'm opposite, have only used pine shavings. \

Nothing new for me this morning so off to my coffee and then try plant garden between running errands. Of course while running errands I may have to stop and look for some new plants.

 

[Brethren49619]

Stacykins - I would love, Love, LOVE some of those Araucana chicks! Mom is planning on going to visit a cousin of hers in Wetmore in a month or so. That's only an hour or so from you. If your hatch turns out good, maybe I could get some of your chicks????

 

[babigyrl22]

I just have a question regarding broodies and what you would do in this situation.

I have three Araucana broodies. I would like them to raise chicks, means I don't have to! Two have been broody before (recently) and stopped caring for the chicks to go back to brooding wooden eggs. Frustrating, to say the least! One of the two failbroodies is sharing a box with a first time broody. The other failbroody is alone in a different box. They are small birds despite being large fowl, so they can easily fit two fluffy butts in one box, where as my black copper marans and australorp are fat fluffy and fit just themselves!

ANYWAY! What would you do? Let 'em have another go at being Moms? Maybe those two didn't have it in gear when they got chicks last time? They didn't actually HATCH the chicks, I did so in my incubator, and once they were dried off, at night, replaced the wooden eggs with chicks. I guess I should let them hatch the eggs themselves, might help them get the idea. And how do you think the two sharing the nest box will cooperate with hatching chicks? They seem to regularly steal the wooden eggs from each other, they always have at least one, but the extras switch hens. Like if one goes for a drink, the other will stuff them under her.

Not sure if anyone answered this for you but IME, my boodies were not particular about what eggs they sat on, just that they were sitting on something. If they got kicked out of the nest box by a hen that wanted to lay, they just found another suitable spot to brood. My advise is to remove the broody's options by isolating them with thier eggs.

Re: Brooding hens sharing eggs....I don't have any experience.

 

[Stacykins]

Stacykins - I would love, Love, LOVE some of those Araucana chicks! Mom is planning on going to visit a cousin of hers in Wetmore in a month or so. That's only an hour or so from you. If your hatch turns out good, maybe I could get some of your chicks????

If for some reason Laura can't take up the offer, sure. I will price each chick based on the traits, just so you know. A tufted, rumpless chick is obviously the most desirable! The eggs my hens (were) laying are sky blue, not a hint of green. Hopefully the future hens from these eggs do the same.

The eggs in my incubator now are due to hatch on June 5th, though I may set the small amount I collected from the girls before they went broody, either today or tomorrow.

 

[Stacykins]

Not sure if anyone answered this for you but IME, my boodies were not particular about what eggs they sat on, just that they were sitting on something. If they got kicked out of the nest box by a hen that wanted to lay, they just found another suitable spot to brood. My advise is to remove the broody's options by isolating them with thier eggs.

Re: Brooding hens sharing eggs....I don't have any experience.

Thanks! i just want them to stop being broody, hopefully hatching and raising chicks does that. They are tenacious! The 'broody breaking' techniques I read about don't seem very nice, so this is the best, I think.

 

[NovaAman]

and I'm opposite, have only used pine shavings.  \

Nothing new for me this morning so off to my coffee and then try plant garden between running errands. Of course while running errands I may have to stop and look for some new plants.

I switch back to pine after they've all hatched, dried and fluffed. I just use straw for the initial hatching.

 

[Bianca67]

brethren, will try to get a better shot today.

 

[Brethren49619]

Thanks Bianca!

 

[SillyChicken]

congrats Theron!!


Hope everyone has a great day, looks like it will be nice the rest of the week!