Oregon

[peepacheep]

That is a great avatar ChicksRoseburg!

 

[Barnmaradotte]

OK. So how long is too long to let a broody sit on eggs past day 21? Consider there was a couple times early on that the eggs were abandoned for maybe up to 12 hrs.
When I last candled 5 days ago, it appeared only 1 was still going. But I'm no pro. Today is day 22.
Also, the other day I learned what an actual rotten egg smells like, and how hard it is to clean off your hand.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Whenever they've been allowed to get fairly cold, you want to add at least a couple of days per cooling period, though I don't know if cooling more than once for that period of time would make for many viable eggs...

 

[Barnmaradotte]

Yea. Thats kind of my thought. There is only 1 egg that might be viable under her.
The coastal near me is getting Meat birds this morning and was thinking about putting a few under her tonight. But I think it may be to early to give up on the last egg.

 

[countrybuffs]

I am getting a rooster today! And yes I am excited!

 

[Noncentzter]

Congrats on the roo!

I am so tired of the rain...just had to say it!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Congrats on the roo!

I am so tired of the rain...just had to say it!

Amen to THAT!!

 

[wbruder17]

25 days is usually the limit. Don't give up on that one yet. I had one, on day 25, as I was about to tosss it, heard a cheep from inside and it hatched that day. I had already bought a chick to give the hen and was just about to do a swap when I heard the cheep.... so give it a few more days.

 

[Barnmaradotte]

Last night when I got home, I went to check. Well, I caught an egg eater in the act. And the broody was on a different nest. The eggs were cold as ice. The one egg that I thought had a chick in it did. But now it had 2 beak holes in it and fluid leaking out the holes. The chick was a gonner. Bummer. It looked as if it would have hatched today or tomorrow. And now the eggeater is in the fridge. On that note, she has to be 5 lbs dressed out. Isnt that a good yield for a DP Hen? She was a Speckled sussex.
So to make up for the loss of 1 hen and 1 chick, I went and picked up 7 more chicks.

But they dont count toward the "Chicken limit" the wife" enforced upon me the other day because they are Broilers. right?

 

[ChicksRoseburg]

So exciting I got my first Nankin Bantam rooster last week, a real sweetie, 6 months old, I just hatch two Rioos and a pullet from Nankin eggs Lyn in Calif. sent me. Love those chickens