Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[Tiss]

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You have WAAAAAAAAY too much estrogen around there! You poor dear. May I suggest not drinking the water?

 

[Mrs. Mucket]

What a bunch of cuties you all have!

NellaBean--The white chick with broody #3--what breed is it? Its comb looks like it's growing quickly!

 

[Miss Lydia]

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That is too funny, NellaBean. your girls are lovely and the chicks are precious too. I'm right next door in N.C. and I have had 9broodys with 2 sitting on nothing. I know what you mean.

it's gotta be the water.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thats gotta be a roo!!


stony I have to agree the weather has been brutal and I do think it has to affect them, it sure does me. Hoping the 2 from your other broody hatches safely!!

farmer chef sorry your hatch didn't go any better.

 

[NellaBean]

Mrs. Mucket :

What a bunch of cuties you all have!

NellaBean--The white chick with broody #3--what breed is it? Its comb looks like it's growing quickly!

Father was a Cochin, Mother was a White Leghorn. He is definitely a HE.

The female version of the same cross? The little white with black splotches one.

 

[stonykill]

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I just listened in on the broody who lost a chick. There is peeping! I shined a light on her, and got SERIOUS stink eye! So I'm hoping her remaining 3 eggs work out for her. The other broody with 2 eggs, just gives me stink eye, and it seems quiet....

 

[NellaBean]

What's even worse is that this is switcherooskie land here. An example? The cute mottled cochin with the chicks?

This one

she was sitting on AIR for a couple weeks.


So the white leghorn/giant hen hatched out 3 chicks.....and kept kicking other eggs out.

So I took the eggs and gave them to the mottled cochin who was sitting on air.

She hatched out 3 chicks.

The white leghorn/giant was ignoring 1 of her 3 chicks. So I took her and gave her to the mottled cochin.

The eggs left under the mottled cochin were moved to a different mottled cochin. she hatched out one chick.....I took it and gave it to the other mottled cochin (who now has 4 or 5 chicks).

That cochin had 2 eggs left and she took those eggs and moved her nest so she could sit with her other mottled cochin friend. They hatched out 1 chick this morning. I took it and gave it to the same mottled cochin hen with the other chicks......because the eggs are staggered so I need the other hens to keep sitting to hatch them out.

Tonight 2 more chicks had hatched out under the 2 mottled hens sitting togehter AND a 3rd hen decided to sit with them.

Crazy chickens.

 

[justtoni44]

I have a broody close to hatching. When I checked her today, she seemed to be eating something.
It was an egg so I took it and there was not a chick inside.
Obviously not fertile, it did not smell..she seems fine with the rest of the eggs............
I have not experienced this before and am wondering if anyone else has???????????
Thanks,
Toni

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Yes I have seems to be normal.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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I am totally confused Nella, Hope you aren't