Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[bobbieschicks]

Adorable!

Correction Mama has ELEVEN yes 11 fuzzy butts!!!!!!!

As soon as she saw me with the camera she took the 11 lil ones to hiding. The best pic I could get so far. tommorrow she will be more cooperative I'm sure. Here are 1/2 dozen or so of them with the proud Mama

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[BarnGoddess01]

Looks like I got the splash copper Marans I was hoping for ....

We have 3 so far, one of each, blue, black, and splash!

Just day 21 here and they ARE Marans eggs so I'm still hoping more will hatch.

 

[bobbieschicks]

Hello everyone! Well, this is one thread I didn't think I would need, but all of a sudden I have a broody! Little sneek (also known as Summer, the bantam brahma) had eight eggs in a corner of the coop. They had never been awesome layers so i didnt even notice the egg lag. She looked so miserable when DH went to take her eggs that he actually suggested getting some fertile hatching eggs!

I hadn't even mentioned the possibility until he started feeling sorry for her; figured he would have put his foot down. Now I have Belgain Quail D'Anver hatching eggs shipping out tomorrow.

Any tips from those of you with experience would be appreciated! This is my first ever broodies first brood! And it looks like her sister may start too!

Congrats on the broody! Keep some falsies under her until you get the shipped eggs. Then slip the new ones on her nest after she hops down to use the potty (or you put her down to do same). If you're leaving her on a nest in the general population, be sure to mark the eggs with an identifier and be prepared for breakage. If you move her from her current nest to a secluded one, be sure to do it at night or in the dark - putting a towel over their head works fine. Keep her dark until the next day. She'll be fine after that. Keep us posted on her developments!

 

[bobbieschicks]

Awhhh - so pretty. Congrats on the new fuzzy!

Looks like I got the splash copper Marans I was hoping for ....

We have 3 so far, one of each, blue, black, and splash!

Just day 21 here and they ARE Marans eggs so I'm still hoping more will hatch.

 

[bobbieschicks]

I saw this bed and wondered if she had a little sparkling globe that hung above with mirrored ceiling - JK!

Mama at 7 am this morning. Still working on the hatch.

 

[stonykill]

I saw this bed and wondered if she had a little sparkling globe that hung above with mirrored ceiling - JK!

lol, no Mama doesn't roll like that!
Mama let me do a proper head count. 4 Blue Sumatra's and 7 Black Sumatra's. They wouldn't stand still long enough to get a pic

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

that is so neat, the one looks like he has little white eyebrows..too cute...mamma did a good job in the magic cat case.

 

[stonykill]

that is so neat, the one looks like he has little white eyebrows..too cute...mamma did a good job in the magic cat case.

she. She has little white eyebrows. I call them all girls until they prove otherwise

 

[Miss Lydia]

Correction Mama has ELEVEN yes 11 fuzzy butts!!!!!!!

As soon as she saw me with the camera she took the 11 lil ones to hiding. The best pic I could get so far. tommorrow she will be more cooperative I'm sure. Here are 1/2 dozen or so of them with the proud Mama

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Very cute stony, Congrats on 11!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I've got nothing but DRAMA at my place. The turkey adopted the three abandoned chicks that the BA hen didn't want. This morning one of the remaining four eggs under the BA girl was hatched and another is unzipping, but they are cold and she is over harassing the turkey trying to steal those babies back! I took the chick, the hatching egg, and the two unhatched eggs and stuck them under the turkey. I am just convinced the BA girl is a BAD mom.

The dom. that hatched four chicks almost two weeks ago was trying to break out of the mamma coop to take her babies outside so I let her. She beat up every hen, rooster, and tom turkey that got near her except the head rooster. He is walking around the outside of the fence line running the chicks back in to their mom when they escape.

I have another dom girl that is broody on a mixed clutch of eggs. I don't even remember how long she has been on the nest. This pregnancy has been rough and most of the chicken care has been left to my 10 year-old son. He can't remember how long she has been sitting either. I bet they will hatch while I am gone taking care of my grandmother next week!

Can you move said mama turkey and her chicks to a safe place away from BA ? I hope everyone gets everything straightened out and you have a smooth pregnancy from here on out. Keep us updated.