Set eggs 3/5. Looking for others to hatch with!

[meshellrose]

I'm with you guys. I have baby chicks in a guest bedroom downstairs, three week old chicks and a momma with four chicks in pens in my laundry room and three roos and one hen and 10 older chicks in the garage! Then all my regular guys are in his barn because we don't have the coop built. I have eggs in the bator, eggs under broodies and eggs on the way.

I have ducklings in the laundry room, and then eggs in bator, some waiting for bator, big ones in their coop, 25 baby chicks on the way for my daughter's 4h project (gotta build a brooder soon for them), raised a couple bottle baby goats in the house for a month, they just went out. Suprised I'm still married..lol

 

[Peach2u]

At least I'm not the only one that puts chicks in the house. For the first week the new ones will be in totes with heat lamps. Before the week is up they will be too big for the brooders and get put into the kiddie pool. I'm setting it up in the kids play room/den. But this year I will have to come up with a fence around the pool. Last year I taped boxes around it and left a door. This year I have a Corgi puppy who I'm sure will defeat any box. A simple brooder using a tote. Jupiter wanting to play with his new friends.

A large kiddie pool with a slide gives everyone room to run or snuggle. And yes those are feathers in there. The kids broke a feather pillow and using them made sense. They where soft and warm easy to clean out.


A nice hot spot and lots of cool down areas. Plus little logs to stretch their feet.

 

[meshellrose]

At least I'm not the only one that puts chicks in the house. For the first week the new ones will be in totes with heat lamps. Before the week is up they will be too big for the brooders and get put into the kiddie pool. I'm setting it up in the kids play room/den. But this year I will have to come up with a fence around the pool. Last year I taped boxes around it and left a door. This year I have a Corgi puppy who I'm sure will defeat any box. A simple brooder using a tote. Jupiter wanting to play with his new friends.

A large kiddie pool with a slide gives everyone room to run or snuggle. And yes those are feathers in there. The kids broke a feather pillow and using them made sense. They where soft and warm easy to clean out.


A nice hot spot and lots of cool down areas. Plus little logs to stretch their feet.

too cute...luckily as long as my dogs aren't together they leave the other animals alone...I don't know what it is about them getting together, but they torture everyone..mainly the goats, but they've been known to go after the chickens too..buttheads..lol

 

[wholewheatchicken]

too cute...luckily as long as my dogs aren't together they leave the other animals alone...I don't know what it is about them getting together, but they torture everyone..mainly the goats, but they've been known to go after the chickens too..buttheads..lol

When we first got our chickens, the two dogs together decided to try and attack one. A scolding and spanking put an end to that and they leave the chickens alone. But these baby chicks, that's a different story. Last week my boy put his mouth over the chick's bottom when I was moving it into a box.....didn't bite it though....he was just testing what was allowed. Yesterday my girl bit a chick's head when I was putting it in a pen. So no baby chicks around the dogs. I think it's the squeaking and jumping they do that drives my dogs insane. Oh, and that baby chick is fine too. It wasn't a very hard bite. I think she wanted to eat it, though!

 

[wholewheatchicken]

At least I'm not the only one that puts chicks in the house. For the first week the new ones will be in totes with heat lamps. Before the week is up they will be too big for the brooders and get put into the kiddie pool. I'm setting it up in the kids play room/den. But this year I will have to come up with a fence around the pool. Last year I taped boxes around it and left a door. This year I have a Corgi puppy who I'm sure will defeat any box. A simple brooder using a tote. Jupiter wanting to play with his new friends.

A large kiddie pool with a slide gives everyone room to run or snuggle. And yes those are feathers in there. The kids broke a feather pillow and using them made sense. They where soft and warm easy to clean out.


A nice hot spot and lots of cool down areas. Plus little logs to stretch their feet.

I love your tree log idea. I am going to go out and get some for my brooders. And I bet they loved the feathers. It's like one big momma in there.

 

[mayberrygirl]

That is a good idea, the storms a few weeks ago brought down part of a tree in the backyard, think I will go grab some small pieces to put in the brooder.

 

[CALI CHICK]

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Awww, I have a Buffy Buff Orpington too -although mine didn't stay broody-LOL! Here is a picture of Buffy on her nest of 5 fertile EE I got for her on March 9. She looks like she means business, but she only sat on them for 5 hours and wouldn't get back on them.

I had to put them in my Hova Bator Friday night, just before midnight...so I guess March 10 is my Day 1...May I join your thread WWC, even though my hatch will be a few days later?

 

[davony's chicks]

Do you trim your cochins? I have read they can have a hard time due to all that fluffiness. My last silkie had zero fertility and I'm hoping it's because her cushion is so big. All the other girls have been 100%. I will be sad if there is just a problem and she can't make a baby because she is very pretty. I have a girl that looks almost exactly like her, but a little lighter and she makes very cute chickies. Right now this girl is being broody on top of a toolbox (with no eggs under her). When she's finished I am going to trim her feathers in the back and see if that works.

I haven't trimmed yet. That is what I thought I would try next. I wont be incubating anymore of their eggs until all of my shipped eggs are here and incubated. i just dont have the room in the bator.
I am so excited I got my first shippment of eggs that I am expecting yesterday and in the bator today! All bantam cochins of course! 4 mottled, calico mille, 3 buff and blue columbians, 2 blue calio mille, 3 red, 3 silver laced, 4 blue splash and 2 lemon blue.

I guess the only ones I really have in this hatch along are the 8 buff barred. I hope they are good eggs. I will candle this weekend.

 

[Peach2u]

Thank you. Yes they do love the logs. They didn't start jumping around from log to log till about 2 weeks old. Some liked sleeping on them while others liked the floor. But, by the time 3-4 weeks comes around everyone is on the logs sleeping and using them as launch pads. I used a smooth bark tree so cleaning would be easy and it wouldn't hurt them. Besides if they get too funky you can always replace then easy enough. Also before I used them I washed them with a little bleach water. Just to keep from bringing in something I didn't want. I let them air dry in the sun so all were clean and dry.

 

[wholewheatchicken]

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Originally Posted by Peach2u

I set 14 eggs under a broody on the 5th of March and set 46 eggs in an incubator on the 3rd of March. I had set 15 under the broody on the 28th of feb. But my 4 year old found them. She not sure what she was thinking. But she scattered them everywhere and broke some. I didn't find them for 3 hour. So by then even the whole ones where gone. The high for that day was 30. So a new start over. This is my first hatch year. The eggs I set where from.
Hens: Egg color:
5 Easter egger 3 green eggers, 1 brown, 1 olive
4 Ameraucana's blue/green
1 Black copper maran number 8 on the chocolate scale
1 silver laced cochin lite brown
covered by a Splash maran Roo

Offspring should be olive eggers from the EE's & ameraucanas
Blue copper from the black copper
and a fuzzy blue mutt from the cochin mix that lays dark brown eggs lol

Buffy the Buff Orphangton is sitting on everyone's eggs but her own.



Awww, I have a Buffy Buff Orpington too -although mine didn't stay broody-LOL! Here is a picture of Buffy on her nest of 5 fertile EE I got for her on March 9. She looks like she means business, but she only sat on them for 5 hours and wouldn't get back on them.

I had to put them in my Hova Bator Friday night, just before midnight...so I guess March 10 is my Day 1...May I join your thread WWC, even though my hatch will be a few days later?

HI, MY HATCHING FRIEND!!!!!! I love your momma. Too bad she didn't stay on the nest. I love those broodies, but they sure are stubborn. I have one right now that has been sitting for about four weeks - on top of a toolbox. I have tried so many times in so many ways to move her and it's just not happening. Today she was moving her imaginary eggs. So I tried to move her again and it still wasn't happening. I would give her something if she would go sit somewhere that she could actually have chicks!
My momma hen should be hatching two very special eggs for me very soon. Friday is day 19 and Monday is day 21. I've had them come early so today I moved her in her next box to the back of the stall and blocked her off and put her own food and water in there. It has been funny in my broody stall. I have four girls in there. Three of them have been moving and swapping eggs almost everyday. Two of them are good friends so I let them move their nest and sit head to head together. One of them I don't think the others like very much and they make sure to keep their nests away from her.
I am so excited about the little chicks that should hatch this weekend. They are from my buff partridge girl with my partridge boy. She only laid three eggs that I know of and the third one is in my incubator. I candled the barn eggs today and they look marvelous! My incubator baby is growing great too.
And Cali Chick, you are soooooooo welcome here. There are a lot of people and we have hatches staggered all over the place. I'm all for staying with this thread until everyone sees their babies safely into the world. I'm hoping for an improved hatch rate this time. Surely it can't be too hard to beat 1:16 and 0:12, you think? (If I don't, I don't think I can face my husband again)