San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread

[Phage]

The amount of ivermectin that gets into the egg is astronomically small. I can still see that you may not want to eat them, but you can always hatch them

 

[dedicateddourly]

The amount of ivermectin that gets into the egg is astronomically small. I can still see that you may not want to eat them, but you can always hatch them  

Oh no, Miriam, you will not get me started

But shall I save them for you?

 

[Laurelm]

I do this often and 9 times out 10 the hens happliy accepts the chicks. I add chicks too to hens that have just hatched a brood - usually I do this the same day their chicks hatch but I have done it up to a week later and it works. I always do it a night. Takes some work off my plate to let a hen rasie a few extras for me!

Providing your hen is truly broody there is a good chance she will take them in as her own newly hatched. You will know before 8:00. And if she takes those then she will take the next ones the next night. I am not saying this from experience but from reading over 10,000 posts on the broody hatch thread. There are several people that do this on that list for various reasons.

I have had broodies but never had incubated chicks to put under them. If you think about it a hen will set 21 and more days depending on her eggs. Often times the clutch will have been put in the nest over the course of three or four days. So its not unnusual for eggs to hatch for three days. So thats your window. but as in your case they have to be newly hatched.

In short..... You have a very good chance that it will work, and you will know before you go to work the next morning.

deb

 

[dedicateddourly]

A big THANK YOU to Renee for coming out to help! Sorry you couldn't stay for Pizza, it was yummy!

We had just the right amount of people, any more and there wouldn't have been anything to do! 

I was happy to help, Cari! Oh, and we're you able to get the you-know-what clean? I'm still so mortified

 

[dfdesigns]

So I'm dying to know what happened with Miss Winkle and the chicks...

 

[perchie.girl]

So I'm dying to know what happened with Miss Winkle and the chicks...

Me too me too me too........

ooohmmm

 

[Fraunie]

Me threeeee!!!!!

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Me four!!!

 

[Compost Girl]

Well, everyone, believe it or not this is the first chance I have had to get back up here. I had a nasty case of food poisoning hit me early Monday morning (there goes a day and a half), my Mom was out of town and her chicken is having what I think might be internal laying and/or a shell problem (so I'm running up to wash chicken butt every day after work), yesterday was Rick's BDay, and all on payroll and month-end week. I won't even tell you what tomorrow looks like, except that I think I might prefer the food poisoning.

So, there went all my plans, considering I didn't have the time to watch the chicks carefully and didn't want to send them to their doom (chick stomping still going through my head). Putting Wink back in the coop and removing the box didn't help, either, as she has decided to brood on the roosting board (hiss, fluff, go away). Still. She is my new measure of dedication to a cause, and I'm frankly worried she will start to look like she's on a hunger strike.

With my NEW scenario, I still don't know what to do. We're now at two days past the expiration date (since this is food poisoning week, we'll speak in terms with which I'm intimately familiar). I have three healthy chicks in a brooder and a broody hen, but I don't think the chicks will fit on the board 2 feet up.

So NOW what would you do, Obi Wan? You are STILL my only hope. Well, you and Pepto.

E

 

[All-American-Chick]

Oh compost girl,so sorry to hear about the food poisoning.Can only imagine with everything else happening.
Everything i write is from my experience so please take as such.
Ive had mamas take new chicks and ive had mamas not take baby chicks.Can only try if that is the route you wish to take.Im telling ya it is a trial,error and learn from it type of experince with these chickens.Always learning.Not to sound heartless if she is not being nice take em out but you will never know until you try.Some hens will,some wont,maybe the chick is to white,to dark,to big,to small who knows why they take some and not others.I prefer mamas to take the lead on raiseing the chicks since it is a lot eaiser.Have 2 mamas now that are actually free ranging their brood.A new thing for us to try.So far all is good,but im out there a lot doing head counts.Have cats and hawks here but lack the coops for the growing chicks and mama,so out they go to see what happens.

Good luck with whatever choice you make,take mental notes and learn from it.
For example our one bantam hen does not like dark chicks but accepts all the light colored ones you want to give her.strange but i know not to give her wellie eggs to hatch.