Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[pixie546]

Here is 24 hr old Buff Silkieton!!

Here is 2 day old Buff/EE cross

Here is Henrietta and the 2 Buff babies. You can see the first bigger baby on the left, and the newest baby on the right. They were both running under mama!

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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I hope I'm wrong about the blue eggs.

 

[pixie546]

I hope you are wrong about the blue eggs too!!

It's totally my fault for setting them later than the others. I've just seen her stay on eggs with chicks before. I'm gonna put down some fresh bedding and make sure food and water are easy for chick to get, and hope she sits!

If not I'll put them in a plastic box under my halogen desk lamp and cross my fingers. AND hope if they do hatch in the house, mama will accept them! I can always get more blue eggs, I guess.

 

[artsyrobin]

i had a similar situation happen, one silky decided no more sitting after the first eggs hatched, so i wasn't sure what to do with the guinea eggs i had found, showed them to the other silky hen and she immediately took them on.... thats an option if you have another hen going broody...speaking of which....you guessed it! another broody! first one in the laying flock to do this....

am thinking to move her into a sectioned off area of the coop....

 

[perchie.girl]

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lol, when I told her miss broody wouldn't break, and i was going to give her eggs, she didn't care. until I brought up duckers. Yeah, thats what I call my (her)ducks. My duckers. Actually it is more of a "hey duckairs" Like on Welcome Back kotter, but with duckers involved.

My dad put some duck eggs under a chicken when he was a kid and said that hen went NUTSO when those duckies went into the water clucking and calling up and down the wading pool.

 

[stonykill]

perchie.girl :

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lol, when I told her miss broody wouldn't break, and i was going to give her eggs, she didn't care. until I brought up duckers. Yeah, thats what I call my (her)ducks. My duckers. Actually it is more of a "hey duckairs" Like on Welcome Back kotter, but with duckers involved.

My dad put some duck eggs under a chicken when he was a kid and said that hen went NUTSO when those duckies went into the water clucking and calling up and down the wading pool.​

you know, it's almost worth doing just to see that! And you tube it!

 

[perchie.girl]

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My dad put some duck eggs under a chicken when he was a kid and said that hen went NUTSO when those duckies went into the water clucking and calling up and down the wading pool.

you know, it's almost worth doing just to see that! And you tube it!

LOL just tell your wife its a movie project..... that'll work... yep yep.

 

[stonykill]

perchie.girl :

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you know, it's almost worth doing just to see that! And you tube it!

LOL just tell your wife its a movie project..... that'll work... yep yep.​

 

[upcdayz]

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Awww! They're so cute and fluffy! It never gets old seeing baby chicks.

 

[upcdayz]

My silkied Serama hen has 7 of the original 9 eggs left. Two had to get tossed - one quitter and one possible infertile or died early on. Just checked on her a few minutes ago and she has three pipping! I hear them chirping and chipping away at their shells. Keeping my fingers crossed for them.