Looking forward to pictures of the them when they peek out from under mom
One so far-another is pipped. Two others to go. I'm hoping all four make it. There were seven eggs to begin with; three died in the first week of development.
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Looking forward to pictures of the them when they peek out from under mom
I wish you Luck. Things can be alot different in your area than mine, When by broody is in her last 3 days---"I" would Not bother her---I would not tilt or lift her to see if a egg is pipped or hatched. I would just leave her alone till she finishes and comes off the nest. In my area she needs all the moisture she has built up to hatch the eggs----tilting/lifting her causes the moisture to escape. Might not affect you.One so far-another is pipped. Two others to go. I'm hoping all four make it. There were seven eggs to begin with; three died in the first week of development.
Hi everybody.I have a broody bantam Golden Seabright. I can't believe she had a mind to set eggs in the dead of winter! The temps have been quite warm for awhile now with the weird weather. She was missing for about 2-3 weeks and I had a feeling she had gone broody because one of her sisters did too, back in Nov. So she finally turned up and I followed her back to her hiding place...right underneath my husband's woodpile he has been working on. It is a miracle that she wasn't squished, because the logs could have fallen as he was moving them to split the wood!
Now the temps are supposed to go below freezing tomorrow night, so I felt it was best to go ahead and move her. We brought her into the garage and I put her in a cage inside of a brooder set-up and put a heat lamp over her, just enough to keep her warm. It has to be getting close to hatch time and I surely didn't want to find little frozen chicks or her frozen to death, just being a little banty I don't know how she could keep herself warm at those temps either. Five of her eggs were warm to the touch and we did note a couple of them wiggle! I removed the cold ones and candled them to be sure they really were dead and they were.
She is very upset that I moved her though. She has been off of the nest for about an hour. She ate and drank, relieved herself and groomed her feathers and finally calmed down. I have left her alone and will check on her here in a couple of hours to see if she will set on her eggs again. I really don't know what else I could have done, but I wanted to give them the best chance I could. Do you think the chicks will die since she has been off of them for about an hour? The ambient temp with the heat lamp is about 60-70 degrees.
I'm really hoping this works out.
My response is a little late, so I hope things worked out by now.Hi everybody.I have a broody bantam Golden Seabright. I can't believe she had a mind to set eggs in the dead of winter! The temps have been quite warm for awhile now with the weird weather. She was missing for about 2-3 weeks and I had a feeling she had gone broody because one of her sisters did too, back in Nov. So she finally turned up and I followed her back to her hiding place...right underneath my husband's woodpile he has been working on. It is a miracle that she wasn't squished, because the logs could have fallen as he was moving them to split the wood!
Now the temps are supposed to go below freezing tomorrow night, so I felt it was best to go ahead and move her. We brought her into the garage and I put her in a cage inside of a brooder set-up and put a heat lamp over her, just enough to keep her warm. It has to be getting close to hatch time and I surely didn't want to find little frozen chicks or her frozen to death, just being a little banty I don't know how she could keep herself warm at those temps either. Five of her eggs were warm to the touch and we did note a couple of them wiggle! I removed the cold ones and candled them to be sure they really were dead and they were.
She is very upset that I moved her though. She has been off of the nest for about an hour. She ate and drank, relieved herself and groomed her feathers and finally calmed down. I have left her alone and will check on her here in a couple of hours to see if she will set on her eggs again. I really don't know what else I could have done, but I wanted to give them the best chance I could. Do you think the chicks will die since she has been off of them for about an hour? The ambient temp with the heat lamp is about 60-70 degrees.
I'm really hoping this works out.
Do the momma hens take care of the chicks for a while or do you need to use a brooder right when they hatch??