Silkie Baby Broody... ((update and Pic)) update pg4

[Fox]

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Our hen would just not get off the nest either. I think she's been on it for 5 weeks now. She does get off to eat and drink, and leave her super poo for us, so at least I know she is doing ok for being there this long. She has a very strong motherly instinct!

 

[winekntrychicks]

Update: this morning as Banjo began to crow I drug myself out of bed to go to the bedroom window-I can see the coop and run from there- low and behold little Mocha scurring around like a mad woman in a hurry. From the feeder to the waterer back and forth. Now she is now where to be seen from the window. Needless to say she is getting off the nest for food and water, yea.......................

 

[Teresaann24]

That is good to hear she is eating and drinking!! I have 8 days till one of my girls eggs hatches I candled today and it looks good. The 2nd egg is not due to hatch till 13th so i gotta keep a close eye on them so when the egg due to hatch on the 1st when the chick hatches I need to remove it or she will leave the other egg and it will die because I do not have a incubator. Keep us updated when your eggs hatch!

 

[Fox]

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Hurray! That's wonderful news!!

 

[winekntrychicks]

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my husband said when he was a kid he and his buddy hatched an egg in a shoe box with nothing but a light bulb........And the guy at the feed store said they had some eggs under the counter that hatched all on their own w/out a heat source (it was during the summer and what they were doing with eggs under the counter I will never know because I failed to ask him) any way if she ( your girl) gets off the late egg get a shoe box and light bulb ready; it's worth a try......I haven't done any candling yet....I'm afraid of what I will find....either all of them are fertile and what will I do with them, what if they are all dead, what if I drop one and kill it, etc. I want to refrain from any sort of intervention, except in the case of keeping my momma bird alive.

 

[Teresaann24]

I will sure try something if she decides to leave the late egg.

When I was younger me and my cousin was doing a science fair. We wanted to see how other means to hatch eggs and we did like 4 different ways. One was a cooler not a syrophone one but a plastic liek camper cooler. It was one of the smaller ones. Anyways we took some small wire and raised it abit off the floor we added about 2 cups of water in the bottom of the cooler got some of that nonslide stuff from the dollar store and placed over the wire. got some hay and made a nest for the eggs. We had our dads drill a hold in top and took an old lamping kit a put it into place in the coolor. Frist try without checking temps and humitiy the eggs cooked seriously it hard boiled it..LOL Next time we made vent holes some small air holes and then some vent holes we pluged with bottle corks. Bought one of those 40 dollar temp/hum readers got temps where they should be and humitiy stayed around 55 to 60% Temps flip flopped alot between 95 and 100.

In 21 days from the 10 eggs we had in there 5 hatched 5 did not.
The other 5 that did not hatch only didnt hatch because they were NONfertile eggs. So all 5 fertile eggs HATCHED.

I have never tried this ever again but If need be I could do it again i think..LOL

Oh forgot to add the chicks Hatched on day 21 and day 22.

 

[Fox]

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I hatched all of my eggs in a box with a desk lamp. A friend of mine finished off her hatch (because the hen left the nest) on a heating pad because it was all she had at the time. But I would think you could get a box ready like I did and then if she does get off, stick the other eggs in there. I have a link about what I did here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=124951&p=1 maybe something like that would work for you and you can hatch out the rest if needed!

 

[winekntrychicks]

So far so good, baby silkie broody doing well. I have another 11 eggs in the bator-due feb 14-upon candling eggs we have veining and you can actually see the fetus moving inside the egg.
Too cool................

 

[Teresaann24]

good luck! My broodys egg is on 21 days tomorrow. So I have my fingers crossed!!!

 

[winekntrychicks]

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good luck..........did you candle them??