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sunday 7am i let her (#2) out and she had a dustbath, ate, pooped and never looked back. no interest in her eggs. the eggs started hatching under #1 sunday morning (day 20). one hatched under #3 on day 21 and i put it under #2. yesterday i went to work and #1 had 4 chicks and had gotten off the rest of the eggs (her's and #2's!). when i got home they were cold to the touch and 3 of them had pipped with little beaks showing. i shoved them under #3 who was royally ****** off. she broke open one of the eggs, took a big poop and grabbed the dead chick, carried it over to the edge of the crate and plopped it down for me to dispose of
i left her till dark and checked the 2 eggs - they are alive and peeping. i then took them from #3 and put them back under #2 hoping they'd hatch overnight and #2 would adopt them. if they hatched under #3 i'd run the risk that she would abandon the eggs under her which aren't set to hatch till the weekend.
i went out this morning and both chicks had hatched under #2 and looked fluffy and healthy.
so i have ended up with: 2 buff orpington frizzles; 1 buff orpington x easter egger; 1 appenzeller spitzhauben x japanese bantam; 2 marans x japanese bantam. i cracked open one that wasn't fertilized and there's two more that i don't think will hatch either.
i'm glad i had 3 broodies or i would have been in trouble. its been a bit of musical chairs and i've got 8 more eggs to hatch for next weekend.
sunday 7am i let her (#2) out and she had a dustbath, ate, pooped and never looked back. no interest in her eggs. the eggs started hatching under #1 sunday morning (day 20). one hatched under #3 on day 21 and i put it under #2. yesterday i went to work and #1 had 4 chicks and had gotten off the rest of the eggs (her's and #2's!). when i got home they were cold to the touch and 3 of them had pipped with little beaks showing. i shoved them under #3 who was royally ****** off. she broke open one of the eggs, took a big poop and grabbed the dead chick, carried it over to the edge of the crate and plopped it down for me to dispose of
i left her till dark and checked the 2 eggs - they are alive and peeping. i then took them from #3 and put them back under #2 hoping they'd hatch overnight and #2 would adopt them. if they hatched under #3 i'd run the risk that she would abandon the eggs under her which aren't set to hatch till the weekend.i went out this morning and both chicks had hatched under #2 and looked fluffy and healthy.
so i have ended up with: 2 buff orpington frizzles; 1 buff orpington x easter egger; 1 appenzeller spitzhauben x japanese bantam; 2 marans x japanese bantam. i cracked open one that wasn't fertilized and there's two more that i don't think will hatch either.
i'm glad i had 3 broodies or i would have been in trouble. its been a bit of musical chairs and i've got 8 more eggs to hatch for next weekend.
