Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

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featherz said:
The video is a little small (taken with my phone) but here's princess the broody araucana with her babies and a watermelon. :p
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Chick_In_The_Burbs said:
Ok, I swapped the eggs from under Summer. I had to kick her out of the coop anyway; my rule is she must get out and get some sunshine at least every three days. Figured I would swap the eggs while I was at it.
Cross your fingers she stays broody! She has already been setting for twelve days.
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That's what I've done with my three times of having broodies. It's worked just fine. I'm sure it will be okay.
 
Blarneyeggs said:
Quote: You know I will learn to process and butcher eventually it will be a necessity. I have no problems with people that do. Matter of fact that comment about people giving grief over predators getting the chickens really hit home to me.

I got snide comments from family and friends when I got some new hens to replace ones that coyotes got. ""So you are going to kill some more"" It squashed me soo much to think I was responsible that I stopped raising chickens for about five years. Till I came to my senses and thought to myself "Bleep em if they cant take a joke" so now I am raising them up in double fortress of a coop after huge losses last year.... The lesson of secure coops driven home...

Now my Wellies are laying and I am loving it. I cant wait to get a broody so I can truely participate in this group..... Sigh.

OK I have one more Wellie laying..... Gawd my life is sooo bizar..... I thought I would be spending these days reflecting on the Rocket ships I had designed or the novel I had wrote or the art i had created..... What makes me happiest is a teeny little speckled egg....
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deb "loving the simple life"
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perchie.girl said:
You know I will learn to process and butcher eventually it will be a necessity.  I have no problems with people that do.  Matter of fact that comment about people giving grief over predators getting the chickens really hit home to me. 

I got snide comments from family and friends when I got some new hens to replace ones that coyotes got.  ""So you are going to kill some more""  It squashed me soo much to think I was responsible that I stopped raising chickens for about five years. Till I came to my senses and thought to myself "Bleep em if they cant take a joke"  so now I am raising them up in double fortress of a coop after huge losses last year....  The lesson of secure coops driven home...

Now my Wellies are laying and I am loving it.  I cant wait to get a broody so I can truely participate in this group..... Sigh.

OK I have one more Wellie laying..... Gawd my life is sooo bizar.....   I thought I would be spending these days reflecting on the Rocket ships I had designed or the novel I had wrote or the art i had created.....  What makes me happiest is a teeny little speckled egg....  :th



deb "loving the simple life"  :celebrate
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Okay I'm jealous! What pretty eggs!

I wanted some Wellie layers, but ended up with two cockerels. They are beautiful birds. I gave one away to a friend who needed a rooster for his flock and I still have Willie the Wellie.

Hoping to get my dark eggs with these Blue Splash Maran eggs the broodies will hopefully hatch.
 

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