Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[kgdubois]

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Still going well, Chicken Chat!! Miss Broody Pants was sitting on the babies this morning, all fluffed up & chirping at them

I think it might work!

 

[perchie.girl]

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I think I'd try to candle those eggs if it's been a while since the others hatched, you don't want blown up egg all over your coop.

yeah- i was thinking i might just toss them- even though they don't smell or ooz... here are some moe pics, the last one is my flash aka guinea girl...
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o155/rgortonart/2011 chickens/keets/file-5.jpg
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o155/rgortonart/2011 chickens/keets/file-4.jpg
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o155/rgortonart/2011 chickens/keets/file-3.jpg
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o155/rgortonart/2011 chickens/keets/file-2.jpg
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o155/rgortonart/2011 chickens/keets/file-1.jpg
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o155/rgortonart/2011 chickens/keets/file.jpg
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o155/rgortonart/flashsiting.jpg

You might talk to PeepsCA about Identifying colors she is spot on with them.

 

[artsyrobin]

hey perchie, i grew up in san diego- clairmont- where are you at? sounds like san ysidro?

well, candeling the eggs, one the air sac is tilted sideways, but its been that way a couple days, no sound at all from it, the other shows no change from the air sac in the last week....

 

[artsyrobin]

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yeah- i was thinking i might just toss them-

so cute, great pics. and flash is beautiful love her colors, sorry you lost her.

flash was a sweety, i hand raised her during last winter, so was very tame, could pic her up and she'd perch in your lap- very unusual for a guinea, which may have led to her downfall, she wasn't real aware of danger like the other guineas

 

[Chicken Chat]

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Still going well, Chicken Chat!! Miss Broody Pants was sitting on the babies this morning, all fluffed up & chirping at them

I think it might work!

That sounds like a good sign, what a good mama!

 

[perchie.girl]

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I split my time between my home in Jacumba and my grandmothers home in Santee. My livestock is in Jacumba which is sixty miles east of El Cajon towards El Centro. LOL... some of these Spanish names give people fits.... But Jacumba is not a Spanish name, its Native American, Jacumba is pronounced HaCoomba...

 

[artsyrobin]

perchie.girl :

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I split my time between my home in Jacumba and my grandmothers home in Santee. My livestock is in Jacumba which is sixty miles east of El Cajon towards El Centro. LOL... some of these Spanish names give people fits.... But Jacumba is not a Spanish name, its Native American, Jacumba is pronounced HaCoomba...

ah yes, lived in el cajon for a bit, hubby was stationed at Naval Station- cool to hear those names, get homesick occasionally...

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

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Hope the transfer goes well, kgdubois!

Thank you!! They are still doing okay -- I checked this morning, and there were no little guys kicked out of the nest

Hooray! I was thinking about those little friends, last night, in my bed...so weird how attached to these stories and people I have never met, but somehow know...ya know?
Delighted everybody is where they go, today!

Bright Blessings

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Still going well, Chicken Chat!! Miss Broody Pants was sitting on the babies this morning, all fluffed up & chirping at them

I think it might work!

That sounds like a good sign, what a good mama!

X2!!!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

My Delaware, three weeks after laying her first egg. I let her have three eggs and they should be hatching on Monday the 26th.