Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[Miss Lydia]

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Oh my goodness how precious, love them all

and I love the name fudge and look at the color of it's beak so cute. is that a maran? keep those pics coming!

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Well read post 4775, most do well if they have had exposure to the rest of the flock. you'll have to monitor to be sure it goes good. of course you know there will be the pecking order to get restablished, but hopefully it will go smoothly. you have to put them in there sometime.

let us know how it goes.

 

[Niss]

Thanks for the pics!

Glad to hear about happy flocks with everyone together! I don't worry about this issue at all. I've had two groups of chicks, and with both they are in the coop with mama from day one. Mama protected them feircely at first...the first batch do not have 'mom to the resuce' anymore, but they are big enough to hold their own--picking being minimal pecking order stuff since they are an accepted part of the flock already.

 

[Fuffy]

Well today has been momentous in the life of my little chookies:

Last night Baby Willow went to the chicken coop in the sky, and his sister Buffy was bedded down with all the grown up chickens.

She was still alive this morning

She has had a lovely time without her brother hanging on her bloomer strings, as it were.

We had our first pumpkin today!

And, better still, she put herself to bed.

So I guess it's from this:

To this:

In just 16 weeks.

That would be my Little Buffy with her head IN the pumpkin

 

[Niss]

Fluffy, love the befor and afters! That is a lot of diversity in the coloring now given the similer colors as chicks

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sure is, I would have never known it was same bird. Sorry you only got one pullet out of your group, but theres always next year right.

Hey Niss what ever happened about your lil duck? I think last i saw she had left the nest.

 

[Niss]

Yes, Miss L., she is out and about doing ducky stuff. Eggs are garbage

I hope she's done for the year.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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She most likely is, she'll be older and wiser next spring. It's getting pretty cool here so I imagine it's about the same your way. I hope your not too disappointed you didn't get ducklings.

 

[Niss]

I'd rather not have tiny ducklings in November. My little boy was disappionted, but he got over it...I just promised him some in the spring. Now to

that I don't have to buy them!!! That duck is the only one I've seen eggs from, but I have 2 females each--cuyuga, pekin, and sweed...do you think thay didn't lay yet or are hiding them and just not sitting? I was sort of expecting my ducks not to lay until spring.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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They could be laying and hiding them, they are very good at hiding as you found out, what ages are they? because that could also play into why you haven't seen eggs. One of my muscovies was hiding eggs right under my nose, the ramp going into their house and I still am amazed she was able to get under there. lol.