Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[Wishing4Wings]

Quote: Yay! Excellent.

I forgot you are buds with Sally Sunshine. She is supposed to be the hatching guru. The only time I hatched out eggs was when our "hidden" broody got pneumonia or something and died right before the chicks were due to hatch (we could hear them peeping). My mom set the eggs up with a heating pad and most hatched out fine. One had started and then stopped, so we helped it. After reading everything on here, we should have left it because there was some blood, but it survived. This was back in the mid-70s. No online help. No BYC, but my mom was always really good at figuring out what to do.

Forgot to mention that these are adorable! I'm getting a serious case of chick envy!

 

[Sallysec]

Love the baby pictures tonight. Off to bed. Hope all the little chicks are tucked up in bed with mommy or brooders keeping them warm.
Night night.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Okey doke here they finally are...
The one I really want to know is white cream here



And here

And this little grey laced one

Added because I just LOVE the sebrights



3 silkies


grey baby again


the pair of rust and brown ones with the gray




feathered legs



Last week's mystery maran

What a great assortment! Soooo cute. Don't have any ideas about the one in the first pic, but very pretty! I think you are right about the feathered footed one being a porcelain d'Uccle. There are tons of colors for these, though, so it could be some other variety. A beard, feathered feet, and small sounds like a d'Uccle. (quack!)

 

[showbarnmom]

New question: Cherry is holding her tail feathers down, like a sick dog tucks their tail, but shakes it from side to side like a duck. Could this mean she's egg bound?? I can't feel anything, but she hasn't given me an egg since Friday when she got sick?

 

[Wishing4Wings]

New question: Cherry is holding her tail feathers down, like a sick dog tucks their tail, but shakes it from side to side like a duck. Could this mean she's egg bound?? I can't feel anything, but she hasn't given me an egg since Friday when she got sick?

I don't know, but it seems like she's irritated at the least. Did you do a mite check? I've never felt an egg either. Wish I could be more help.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Roger has two eggs left. One of hers was a "helper" egg that I removed. I held both of the other two eggs to the light and they are dark inside. But are we not getting past the deadline real soon for them to hatch? But big broody has one hatching right now so I am confused. I read one comment on the broody thread that said after 24 hours the eggs should be removed so the broody will focus on her chicks. Guess mine proved that wrong. I got eggs hatching three days apart

hang in there a little longer..... I wait a day or so longer at least if theres no odor. The babies are just precious!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

hang in there a little longer..... I wait a day or so longer at least if theres no odor. The babies are just precious!

At least odor not caused by the enormous broody poop!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: Yay! Excellent.

I forgot you are buds with Sally Sunshine. She is supposed to be the hatching guru. The only time I hatched out eggs was when our "hidden" broody got pneumonia or something and died right before the chicks were due to hatch (we could hear them peeping). My mom set the eggs up with a heating pad and most hatched out fine. One had started and then stopped, so we helped it. After reading everything on here, we should have left it because there was some blood, but it survived. This was back in the mid-70s. No online help. No BYC, but my mom was always really good at figuring out what to do.

Forgot to mention that these are adorable! I'm getting a serious case of chick envy!

precious! Its really easy to "help" I have stopped waiting past 24 hours from external pip, there's usually something like "shrink wrap" that's happened preventing them to hatch. I only had one to "recap" because the yolk was still not absorbed, it happens every week cause this house is terribly dry. Have 13 out so far for this week, 2 of which are...CX!!!!! yep, cornish cross chicks! Will post pics shortly. they are white. They will probably be more like white plymouth rock, or cornish I am guessing.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

the soft shelled egg. Blu already pecked a hole in it. the shell is like paper.

I get one of these every so often too, they usually turn up on the poop board.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Had to get the rest of the flock back in the coop for the night. They will mess with the broodys and eat the chiick starter i have out for the chicks. I will put them out again in the morning. Now back to the story. I didn't have any choice but to get that nest clean. Not to get too gross but broody poop smells horrible. All of my hens can go and if I walk in I can tell if a broody has been up to do her business. It is ......stinky. So I couldn't leave her sitting in the stinky mess with chicks under her. I reached in and got her on both sides and picked her straight up and out of the box and sat her on the floor. I found two chicks and either four or five eggs. One egg was hatching when I picked it up. (I have a pic i'll post). I sat the chicks out first and all of the eggs. Cleaned out the box and added fresh hay. Made a little depression in the hay to form a nest. Next I cleaned broody off as well as I could and sat her back in the nest first. Then she was pretty upset about the whole situation so I let her get situated and sat her chicks in front of her. That seemed to help calm her. Then starting with the unhatched eggs I gave her eggs one at a time which she tucked under her. Last I gave her the egg that was hatching. The beak can bee seen in the picture. I don't think the little guy missed a beat while all that was going on. I wanted the hatching egg in front of her so I gave it to her last. The chicks returned to her on there own. Just checked and she is tucked in with her chicks and eggs. Pictures next

yikes what a mess!