My chicken is sitting on some eggs

[cute chicks here]

If you want her to raise them and she does too, she'll keep them warm and cozy. Do you have a separate place she's going broody that way when the chicks hatch none of the other chickens might pick at them? This also helps her to raise them with ease, get food and water easily, and before you know it, they're start scratching and wanting to dust.

Yes,I have a separate area with a door so I can keep the other hen out. I have food and water up there. I had layer pellets but bought chick starter for mom and babies

 

[Chipmunk Chicks]

Welcome! This will be exciting! How many eggs / what type?

 

[BarnyardChaos]

@Percysmom I don't mean put a damper on this joyful experience, but I'd still have brooder equipment on hand and ready to set up if needed. Sometimes hens will reject a chick or two, or even abandon the nest - especially hens who've never raised a brood before. Yours is an old hen, but still..... I'd hate to see you coming back here to ask what to do with a one-day-old chick that was kicked out of the nest or whose mommy died from a neighbor's dog attack. Just be prepared is all I'm saying.

It could be just a large tote, playpen, kiddie pool, bathtub, or any homemade enclosure, say, 2x3 or bigger. Something to line the bottom of the brooder that's not slippery (no newspaper! paper towels are great), chick starter feed, and containers for food and water. And especially, a heat source like a heat lamp, brooder plate, or be ready to make your own "mama heating pad" like this one below, using a human heating pad and some sort of frame or rack to attach it to:

(I'd credit the photo to the BYC member who posted it, but I can't find the owner. It's somewhere in this thread, started by @Blooie):
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...d-in-the-brooder-picture-heavy-update.956958/

There are boatloads of nay-sayers about using heat lamps, and I agree with them about the dangers of fire. But if that's all you have, just make sure it's very well secured from anything flammable. I still use them in some situations with no problems.

Anyway, welcome and congratulations!!! I hope everything I've said above is not needed.

 

[cute chicks here]

Thank you, I do have a heat lamp and bin available if needed

 

[cute chicks here]

If you want her to raise them and she does too, she'll keep them warm and cozy. Do you have a separate place she's going broody that way when the chicks hatch none of the other chickens might pick at them? This also helps her to raise them with ease, get food and water easily, and before you know it, they're start scratching and wanting to dust.

yes I have a 4ft sguare area where she is sitting and it has a door to close to keep my other hen away. I have food and water up there but I have been letting momma out once a day to poop and eat and dustbath. She seems to eat better if I let her out for 1/2 hr.

 

[cute chicks here]

@Percysmom I don't mean put a damper on this joyful experience, but I'd still have brooder equipment on hand and ready to set up if needed. Sometimes hens will reject a chick or two, or even abandon the nest - especially hens who've never raised a brood before. Yours is an old hen, but still..... I'd hate to see you coming back here to ask what to do with a one-day-old chick that was kicked out of the nest or whose mommy died from a neighbor's dog attack. Just be prepared is all I'm saying.

It could be just a large tote, playpen, kiddie pool, bathtub, or any homemade enclosure, say, 2x3 or bigger. Something to line the bottom of the brooder that's not slippery (no newspaper! paper towels are great), chick starter feed, and containers for food and water. And especially, a heat source like a heat lamp, brooder plate, or be ready to make your own "mama heating pad" like this one below, using a human heating pad and some sort of frame or rack to attach it to:
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(I'd credit the photo to the BYC member who posted it, but I can't find the owner. It's somewhere in this thread, started by @Blooie):
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...d-in-the-brooder-picture-heavy-update.956958/

There are boatloads of nay-sayers about using heat lamps, and I agree with them about the dangers of fire. But if that's all you have, just make sure it's very well secured from anything flammable. I still use them in some situations with no problems.

Anyway, welcome and congratulations!!! I hope everything I've said above is not needed.

Are wood chips good bedding because that is whats in there now. I really don't know if they will hatch but I want to take good care if they do

 

[cute chicks here]

Welcome! This will be exciting! How many eggs / what type?

I don't have a rooster so I got the eggs from a friend who has alot of chickens. I heard some might be a Frizzle??? The bigger eggs are brown and some are light green but I am not sure of the breed

 

[Obsessed With Silkies]

Are wood chips good bedding because that is whats in there now. I really don't know if they will hatch but I want to take good care if they do

Wood chips will be fine

 

[BarnyardChaos]

Are wood chips good bedding because that is whats in there now. I really don't know if they will hatch but I want to take good care if they do

Yes of course. Wood chips are fine.