If you set her on the 17th, then she would be due today. """I""" personally would Not be lifting/tilting her during her hatch to see whats going on----it cases the moisture to escape---which she might need for the hatch. When she gets through she will come off the nest---I would NOT place any food or water close to her nest either---that can cause her to poop in the nest or have to come off to poop---which is Not a good thing during the hatch. Good Luck!!
Yeah only one hatched which is so weird the others eggs have peeps but nothing. Hopefully I wake up to chicks.
Is the one that hatched still in there with the eggs?
Just one in the morning I'm not home so I'm hoping when I get back there's going to be more
The chick is still there. There was two in the morning
Very cute!Cuteness Alert!
Janeway had another hatch, cold weather made it strange, she hatched from Sunday night through Tuesday, nearly a 42 hour from first to last, which is odd for broodies when all the eggs were set at the same time... but she did 7/7, she had an early quitter and a non-starter that were pulled on the 10 day mark... one to hatch was unexpected, since the air cell was on the side of the egg, but it made it on it's own and we can't even tell which of the last 3 it is (the last 3 hatched while we were at work)....
Some additional info... Janeway spent her entire brood in the coop, she is an experienced broody and stays in general population and is one of the good ones who has no problem with invading hens or mixing up her nest boxes, our life so easy with her broods. Our nest boxes are moveable and we did bring her in after her first chick hatched and placed her in a dog kennel in a cool room (hubby didn't like her being out in a subfreezing coop at hatch, and easier to enjoy the chicks where she was moved to) . After her hatch completed we swapped out the original box for a much less cumbersome box which is seen in the picture. They will move back out to the coop in a day or so.
so without further rambling...
