Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[BarnGoddess01]

Miss Naima got the kids outside this afternoon. Too cute .... and I did get pictures. LONG day (long weekend following LONG week) but I'll try to get something posted ASAP.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Miss Naima got the kids outside this afternoon. Too cute .... and I did get pictures. LONG day (long weekend following LONG week) but I'll try to get something posted ASAP.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I was dealing with mites again tonight, ugh. I moved Betty White to the broody coop yesterday [maternity ward] and like a dummy took along some of the old bedding from her nest box.

went out there this eve. to gush over her lil chick and to see how far along the other had come when i looked and saw mites crawling on the egg shell of the chick thats trying to hatch, oh my gosh I had to take Betty and her chick and egg out of the coop put all the bedding into a plastic garbage bag tie it up and put into garbage can then spray the heck out of her coop check her out and she still had mites on her even after treating her yesterday with Epernix, yuck, so I put more Epernix on her then sprayed her with PP I hope I haven't killed the poor thing and her off spring. I checked on them right before dark and they were still alive. Now i am paranoid, I treated everyone last evening and also sprayed out all the coops bedding walls. etc I guess I'll do it again tomorrow. What a bummer haven't had mites for 2 years only second time to have them too.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

I was dealing with mites again tonight, ugh. I moved Betty White to the broody coop yesterday [maternity ward] and like a dummy took along some of the old bedding from her nest box.   went out there this eve. to gush over her lil chick and to see how far along the other had come when i looked and saw mites crawling on the egg shell of the chick thats trying to hatch, oh my gosh I had to take Betty and her chick and egg out of the coop put all the bedding into a plastic garbage bag tie it up and put into garbage can then spray the heck out of her coop check her out and she still had mites on her even after treating her yesterday with Epernix, yuck, so I put more Epernix on her then sprayed her with PP I hope I haven't killed the poor thing and her off spring. I checked on them right before dark and they were still alive. Now i am paranoid, I treated everyone last evening and also sprayed out all the coops bedding walls. etc I guess I'll do it again tomorrow. What a bummer haven't had mites for 2 years only second time to have them too. 

That SUCKS. Hope they all do well. Mites are a pain in the rump.

 

[aaggjg]

OMG so I am working late and had to have someone go put my chickens to bed .... and they just texted me saying did you know that there is a chick with Caesar??? I said NO!!!! CHICK CHICK CHICK....

She didn't know which egg it came from my black ameraucana or my black bantam cochin all she knew was that it was black ... which is NO HELP AT ALL!!!

So I guess I was a bit off on my days ..... Now when will those other eggs hatch?? Not sure if they were put in later ......

 

[SilkiesForEver]

I've been SO busy with Minnie and the babies, and now preparing for a show next week, I haven't had time to post! Since the time I had, there have been two chicks hatched. Two days ago a little yellow chick hatched....Yeah thats right YELLOW with faint chipmunk markings!! I walked in to check on mama and was like:

, And one I had to emergency hatch (she developed on the wrong side of the egg, so her wing and foot were in front of her beak) this afternoon.

 

[msmechanic58]

Feeling sad today. The mama hen left the babies and went into the cop with the big girls. The poor little things were lost when it was bed time. The big girls didn't let her back on the roosting bar and she is sleeping in the nesting box. I want to go get her and move her back to the babies. The babies were hatched May 27th so they are fully feathered and she already took them to the roost. They have two separate areas that are connected by one fence wall so they can see each other. When I let them out to free range, she took off without them and even when they were hollering for her, she didn't pay them any attention. Just sad for me...........I liked watching her take care of them. She had been not sharing her food with them for about a week and started laying again also. I just think she is done.


Should I go put her back with them?????

 

[stonykill]

Feeling sad today. The mama hen left the babies and went into the cop with the big girls. The poor little things were lost when it was bed time. The big girls didn't let her back on the roosting bar and she is sleeping in the nesting box. I want to go get her and move her back to the babies. The babies were hatched May 27th so they are fully feathered and she already took them to the roost. They have two separate areas that are connected by one fence wall so they can see each other. When I let them out to free range, she took off without them and even when they were hollering for her, she didn't pay them any attention. Just sad for me...........I liked watching her take care of them. She had been not sharing her food with them for about a week and started laying again also. I just think she is done.


Should I go put her back with them?????

no they will be fine. It is time

 

[msmechanic58]

I guess I am projecting my human emotion on them. Poor things were so confused!

 

[stonykill]

I guess I am projecting my human emotion on them. Poor things were so confused!

they will be fine. I have 3 that are younger than yous who just lost their mother to a fox. They are perfect healthy happy little chickens at 3.5 weeks old.They are doing just fine living their chicken lives. They are really quite cute runnig around in their little flock of 3. Your lil ones will be fine. We all dislike when mama lets them go, but it has to happen