Both Cheese and the Cornish bantam lost their nests. None of the Cornish eggs developed (which is really weird, since I know both dudes are breeding and I've got eggs from the pen in my incubator as controls. She kept tossing eggs out though, so I think it was just happening too often.
2 of Cheese's developed, but one ended up getting cracked and the other didn't make it.
So I've got two options to foster chicks on hopefully as long as they stay brooding for another week (which they should, since they both still have things in their nest and still were supposed to sit for a week or so). I'll try to give any araucana that hatch to Cheese since she's a good mom to strong chicks when the raccoons and snakes don't chow down on them. Depending in how things go, I'll either give the Cornish the Cornish chicks that hatch, or give her mixes thar hatch from another nest and give the Cornish to Cheese as well. Just depends on how many hatch total and if any other nests start hatching at that time.
2 of Cheese's developed, but one ended up getting cracked and the other didn't make it.
So I've got two options to foster chicks on hopefully as long as they stay brooding for another week (which they should, since they both still have things in their nest and still were supposed to sit for a week or so). I'll try to give any araucana that hatch to Cheese since she's a good mom to strong chicks when the raccoons and snakes don't chow down on them. Depending in how things go, I'll either give the Cornish the Cornish chicks that hatch, or give her mixes thar hatch from another nest and give the Cornish to Cheese as well. Just depends on how many hatch total and if any other nests start hatching at that time.
