Michigan

[snowflake]

If you can separate her from the rest of the hens, it makes life a little easier. You don't have to worry about other hens adding to her clutch and having older and newer eggs under one hen once she has the first hatch she may only sit a few days more and then leave the nest to watch over the new chicks. unless you can put the unhatched eggs in a bater. I love the mother hen teach her chicks. Fun!!!
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[fifelakelooper]

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I've had two hatch outs with mama...I never did anything! Just marked it on the calender as to when they should hatch and put food and water next to mama...making sure she was away from the rooster and other hens in her own coop and taking her out of the raised nest and putting her at floor level in a box so chicks wouldn't drop 2 ft. Never candled...just let her do her thing.

 

[babigyrl22]

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I just went and looked at your coop set up. Love it! I don't really like the set up of mine but we did it in a hurry. Ours is half of a shed but i am thinking about opening up the whole shed and creating rooms. I have so many ideas rumbling around my head. I better make sure I know exactly what I want before I commission my DH to rearrange what we currently have going already

 

[snowflake]

love your coop Hillybilly. Do they have a separate area inside the large coop also?

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Thanks

It has three seperate areas inside. One for storage, one big area where most of the flock of teens are and then the smaller brooder/breeder area. The big area also has a bigger run like the one I just posted. The run held up very well with last winters snow and I have been very pleased with it overall.

 

[RIRJen]

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I've had two hatch outs with mama...I never did anything! Just marked it on the calender as to when they should hatch and put food and water next to mama...making sure she was away from the rooster and other hens in her own coop and taking her out of the raised nest and putting her at floor level in a box so chicks wouldn't drop 2 ft. Never candled...just let her do her thing.

Yeah, she's in a chicken tractor type coop so she dug a divit in the dirt floor and has her butt glued in there.

I'm going to put some food/water near her and just let her be. Would be cool to see her hatch out some silkie chicks. I don't have anywhere to seperate her so I guess we'll see how it goes...she's in with 3 other hens and a roo.

 

[babigyrl22]

If it came from your own garden...is it ok just to have garlic mashed red skinned potatoes and a glass of wine for dinner? num num num num num

 

[Stacykins]

I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS HEAT ARG! The heat index right now is 121 degrees. And we are having gusts of up to 20 mph. The wind always blows here, so it isn't unusual, but it is like sticking your face in a blast furnace. NOT REFESHING! Even when the wind blows from Lake Michigan's direction it is hot and miserable.

*grumps*

 

[ChicwannaB]

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Our day was a little easier, tho the temp was higher than yesterday, the humidity was down. I sat out in the chickens yard and fed them treats several times, in the shade of course, shot pics of my baby Jerseys who are now at 5 weeks old.
FInally decided on a name for the second Rooster, he's Big John.

 

[ChicwannaB]

here's a pic of Big John (left) and Opa (right) shot from the bathroom window when they were perched on the chain link sections and holding still for a change.

guess I gotta clean that window.