. One of the paints was crushed to death overnight by the adults.
Down to 11 chicks
Wondering if this should be my cue to separate mom and babies (at least at night so the other adults can’t get to them)?
Ohhhhh my what the heck that’s so sad!Down to 11 chicks
Wondering if this should be my cue to separate mom and babies (at least at night so the other adults can’t get to them)?
The one roo is pretty aggressive when establishing his place in the cuddle puddle.
we have our favorite hen kiwi who we placed eggs to yest in hopes she becomes broody (I know a little late ) she’s the most amazing mama hen…. but do hens need time to set chemically if so how long? Can it be only two days? We were going to hatch the eggs and place them at nite under her for her to adopt them. We have done this before but of course not this quickly. Thoughts? She’s been sitting on 8 fake eggs since yest afternoon she ran to them n sat! Like I said best hen ever but I am just curious they don’t know timing do they ????
I’ve got a question for you all….. our eggs are to pip today n hatch tomorrow….
Yes kiwi won’t take chicks after 3 days but my hope is she just continues to sit on these fake eggs n become broody ! she’s still sitting as of today n we don’t have any Pips yet so really hoping she stays put because I want her to raise and integrate them. I will give her them within a day or two of hatch leaving fake eggs under her n I guess we will see what happens. We do have brooder ready incase and I split eggs into two incubators.(13 total)
so imma sneak some under her either tonight or tomorrow; ) we have three so far but does this one look strange like it could be not positioned correctly? It’s not a silky it’s an Ee and Obviously imma leave it because it’s only been since lastnight it pip. And there are 4 other eggs in the incubator with two hatched chicks. I haven’t touched it or opened the container I just think it looks a bit off to me….. what do you all think?
