Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

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we have an early one hatching, didn't expect them till tues, went to check lea and was going to candle them, and the first one i picked up peeped at me!! she has 2 others also, so will post when he makes his entrance...:)
 
Thanks everyone! Miss Henrietta was off the nest when I got home from church this afternoon. But the eggs were warm and she was still clucking. Sure enough she grabbed p tsomething to eat and headed back up her lair. LOL


Now my little Old English Bantam Patience is on the nest with her little clutch of two eggs screeching. I hope she does decide to get serious because I will put a few of my bantam eggs under her.
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I have a very young flock of birds. Guineas and LF Chickens. The guineas are about eight months old I have three hens and three cocks together in a separate space. The chickens about the same age I have four roos and one pullet. I also have about 18 Wellsummer youngsters about two months old. I haven't gotten an egg yet from anyone...

I am also a long distance caregiver. My home where the livestock is is 60 miles east from where I live day to day..... Long story. Everyone is on Bulk feeding and watering so I can be away for as much as five days.

Four days previous I fed and watered and said goodby to my kids. When I was observing the older chickens I watched the Roo "HotStuff" he is an Araucana. He was guiding the Araucana hen over to a cardboard box and Awk awk awking at her. She would walk into the cardboard box and come around him. She looked like she wasn't sure.... I thought to myself.... that looks an awful lot like a roo showing his hen where a good nest would be.

I looked over at the guineas and they were doing their guinea thing..... Chi Chi Chi ing BuckWheating and chasing and biting at the chickens through the fence..... Oh well. I been expecting eggs from them for a few weeks now.

Yesterday I went up to feed and water. I had no expectations..... Youngsters were just about out.... I fed them. And filled their water. Then I looked into the big chicken cage. There in the dog crate were five blue green eggs. Woo Hoo Wittle itty bitty Pullet eggs Not just one or two but FIVE..... she must have laid her first egg that day.

So I grab up the eggs delighted and take them to the truck. Find the ceramic eggs to put back in the dog crate.... I bought two one for the guineas and one for the chickens. So I put one in the dog crate and looked into the guinea pen one more time...... OH MY GAWD..... there were three just laying there in the bright sun..... Woo Hoo. So I grabbed them up and put a phony egg in one of the spots on the floor. When I left One guinea hen was giving that phony egg the STINK Eye. LOL

So here they are..... three Guinea eggs and five Arucana eggs.... too funny I have three Guinea hens and one Auracana hen.

Wooo Hooo we have eggsies......
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And Hopefully I too will be joining the ranks of the Broody hen......

deb
 
Congrats on getting eggs from your pullets - that's the best feeling ever when they first start to lay. You can hatch out pullet eggs - I did. The chicks I hatched have caught up on size to what a normal size LF chick would be - so it didn't matter so much that they came from smaller eggs.

perchie.girl said:
I have a very young flock of birds. Guineas and LF Chickens. The guineas are about eight months old I have three hens and three cocks together in a separate space. The chickens about the same age I have four roos and one pullet. I also have about 18 Wellsummer youngsters about two months old. I haven't gotten an egg yet from anyone...

I am also a long distance caregiver. My home where the livestock is is 60 miles east from where I live day to day..... Long story. Everyone is on Bulk feeding and watering so I can be away for as much as five days.

Four days previous I fed and watered and said goodby to my kids. When I was observing the older chickens I watched the Roo "HotStuff" he is an Araucana. He was guiding the Araucana hen over to a cardboard box and Awk awk awking at her. She would walk into the cardboard box and come around him. She looked like she wasn't sure.... I thought to myself.... that looks an awful lot like a roo showing his hen where a good nest would be.

I looked over at the guineas and they were doing their guinea thing..... Chi Chi Chi ing BuckWheating and chasing and biting at the chickens through the fence..... Oh well. I been expecting eggs from them for a few weeks now.

Yesterday I went up to feed and water. I had no expectations..... Youngsters were just about out.... I fed them. And filled their water. Then I looked into the big chicken cage. There in the dog crate were five blue green eggs. Woo Hoo Wittle itty bitty Pullet eggs Not just one or two but FIVE..... she must have laid her first egg that day.

So I grab up the eggs delighted and take them to the truck. Find the ceramic eggs to put back in the dog crate.... I bought two one for the guineas and one for the chickens. So I put one in the dog crate and looked into the guinea pen one more time...... OH MY GAWD..... there were three just laying there in the bright sun..... Woo Hoo. So I grabbed them up and put a phony egg in one of the spots on the floor. When I left One guinea hen was giving that phony egg the STINK Eye. LOL

So here they are..... three Guinea eggs and five Arucana eggs.... too funny I have three Guinea hens and one Auracana hen.

Wooo Hooo we have eggsies......
yesss.gif
wee.gif


And Hopefully I too will be joining the ranks of the Broody hen......

deb
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I do have an incubator I have never used one before. Its a 1588. I am going up today again because I have some boys coming to help work on my coop expansion. I may have a couple more eggs. today... Do Araucanas go broody?

deb "off to look at the Henderson Chicken Chart"
bobbieschicks said:
Congrats on getting eggs from your pullets - that's the best feeling ever when they first start to lay. You can hatch out pullet eggs - I did. The chicks I hatched have caught up on size to what a normal size LF chick would be - so it didn't matter so much that they came from smaller eggs.

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