Aaaawww so cute and so glad you have some of your Roos babies to carry on, so nice. Lovely broody and babies. Good luck with the rest of the eggs!Due to the loss of our rooster and five of our 11 hens to a predator the night of June 10th, we quit trying to break our broody hen of her broodiness and let her set on all eggs laid 06/11 (2), 06/12 (4) and 06/13 (4). I went out to take her off the nest to check for eggs laid by other hens today (she is not separated right now and takes all the others' eggs and puts them under her). Much to my surprise, there were two chicks underneath her!!!!! Yay!!!!! If I had known, I wouldn't have moved her, but no harm done it seems. Our roo was a buff cochin and our hens are easter eggers. I don't want to go to work tomorrow now. We just put a screen up over her level of nests so the others can't bother her. We will move all of them in a couple days to a different area of the coop. I wish we could move them now, but I'm worried it would affect the unhatched eggs. I just hope they will all be ok in the horrible heat this week! The first picture is the area we will have her in the next couple days til others hatch - we put a screen over it so others can't get in. Will this be ok or should we move them? I feel like it will be cramped for her, but she's hardly moved from there for 20 days so maybe a couple more will be ok?
When she is ready for them to go inside, she walks them over to the box. She ended up hatching 8 of the 10 eggs she was laying on! I was surprised. I was also shocked that 7 out of 10 eggs we had my coworker's daughter incubate for us hatched - they had been in the refrigerator 3-5 days. Four of the black orpington eggs his daughter was incubating also hatched so we have 19 chicks now. Momma hen took them all in and is doing such a good job with them.
