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[Sneebsey]

Mine are £10 a bale

Just a correction; they're £8. Didn't have an itemised receipt to hand so was trying to calculate based on what I know the feed costs. I was always bad with numbers.

Had 5 hatch under Tina the silkie; candled the other 4 and all appeared to be early quitters, probably from the cold patch we had as she is setting out in the broody coop. I'm glad she got any at all!

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Those 5 should keep her happy then! She’s done well to say we had that horrid weather.

 

[CCUK]

Just a correction; they're £8. Didn't have an itemised receipt to hand so was trying to calculate based on what I know the feed costs. I was always bad with numbers.

Had 5 hatch under Tina the silkie; candled the other 4 and all appeared to be early quitters, probably from the cold patch we had as she is setting out in the broody coop. I'm glad she got any at all!

5 is still good. Speckle my cochin bantam with the bad leg has gone broody. She is really grumpy! If I go near her she starts chuntering and trying to peck me! She's such a sweetheart! I'm tempted to put some eggs under her. And the pigeons have started laying! Is spring here yet!

 

[Sneebsey]

It certainly feels like it! Good for Speckle; nice to see she feels well enough to set after your care. I'm all for more chicks!

 

[CCUK]

It certainly feels like it! Good for Speckle; nice to see she feels well enough to set after your care. I'm all for more chicks!

Me too! I just need to utilise more of the garden! She still doesn't walk on that leg but she does balance on it. If I did put eggs under her she is in the best place. Still in my living room!

 

[CCUK]

Right. I've caved in. I've got some eggs to put under speckle! Question is how many regular eggs can she cover? I have two from my cuckoo marans (this could be a new breed I've invented.....maracaunas!) and three araucana eggs. Is this too much? And the other thing because she currently presides in a cage in my living room I've been letting her out in the garden to do her business and have a scratch around, if she is on eggs is this still a good idea, or should I just let her decide when to go out? I've never hatched with a broody before so this is a first!

 

[Sneebsey]

She should be fine on 5; I've had banties cover more. It's amazing how flat they can pancake out when they're baby-crazy.

If the crate is large enough there shouldn't be a problem. I tend to set in broody coops with runs so that they have to leave the nest to get feed and water. I find it helps ensure the hen doesn't soil the nest, jeopardising the eggs. Once she's setting, don't bother her too much; best to leave her in peace or she might abandon the nest. I'd cover the crate with a tablecloth or sheet to keep it private and dark for her.

The Marans eggs should produce some nice olive eggers. My Lakshmi is the reverse cross, one of my favourites from last year. Her mother and aunts lay very pigmented blue eggs, not dark, just very blue, and she has followed in that respect, laying a dark teal.

 

[CCUK]

She should be fine on 5; I've had banties cover more. It's amazing how flat they can pancake out when they're baby-crazy.

If she's in a crate (is it a big dog one?) she shouldn't be tampered with too much. I tend to set in broody coops with runs so that they have to leave the nest to get feed and water; if the crate is large enough, that shouldn't be a problem. I find it helps ensure the hen doesn't soil the nest, jeopardising the nest.

The Marans eggs should produce some nice olive eggers. My Lakshmi is the reverse cross, one of my favourites from last year. Her mother and aunts lay very pigmented blue eggs, not dark, just very blue, and she has followed in that respect, laying a dark teal.

She is sat on 6! I snuck an extra araucana egg under her. She like a little egg slot machine! She in in a dog cage in my living room. I think I'll move the water drinker and feed bowl to the far end of the cage. It is fairly clean in there. When I took her out she did the biggest broody poo ever!

 

[Sneebsey]

It looks like Millie is frustrated at being apart from her friend, but good to keep them apart, she'd probably get beaten up by that face!

I'd move the feed; she should start to get up and hop across to do her business independently before long. It sounds as though her leg has come along well. I still can't handle chickens in the house.

 

[CCUK]

It looks like Millie is frustrated at being apart from her friend, but good to keep them apart, she'd probably get beaten up by that face!

I'd move the feed; she should start to get up and hop across to do her business independently before long. It sounds as though her leg has come along well. I still can't handle chickens in the house.

Millie was running around earlier and I'd left speckles cage door open, millie went up very nearly hopped in and speckle proper growled! Me and Millie ran outside and hid!