Waiting for 9/22 hatch date! I put fertile eggs under the broody hen!

[sprawli]

Thanks, bigj! Congrats to you, too! It sounds like you are going to have a great hatch! Now if you can just keep SuperFluffy in the honeymoon suite!

I can't wait to get back home to see how things are going... I'm stuck in a meeting and then have to drive an hour to get home. Not to mention that I need to stop and pick up some chick feed. Speaking of which... What kind do you guys use? Medicated? Non-medicated? This is my first hatch ever, and first chicks ever, so I'm finding there's a lot I don't know - even after all the reading I've done...

TIA!

 

[sprawli]

Congrats to you, too, Happy Chooks!!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Thanks!

I use medicated, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do when the babies start roaming with mama hen. I will probably have to switch them to flockraiser to keep the hens from eating the chick starter.

 

[sprawli]

I didn't even think about Mama! That my be a little tough!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Mama can eat the chick starter, she's not laying. I don't want the laying hens eating the starter.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I got a better view of the baby. (even got to hold it) It looks blue! It's a little crusty, which makes me worry about the other eggs. My mama hen was having a hard time keeping the chick under her with the eggs. The look on her face said "will you just stay still!"

 

[ZaneyMama]

I'm so excited for everyone who's got hatching going on!

I checked my broody's eggs just now, and there's nothing showing any signs of life. I am SO impatient!!! They're "due" on 9/23 and I hope at least one hatches and lives!!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

ZaneyMama......yours will probably hatch tomorrow. Mine were due to hatch tomorrow, but started today.


I now have 2 babies out and a third almost all the way out, it's fully zipped. I haven't seen the 2nd baby yet, but the shell was pushed out. When mama hen was moving around, I spied the zipped one.

So here is the first chicks photoshoot. It's an olive egger.

edited to fix pictures

 

[ZaneyMama]

Happy Chooks, that third photo is SO cute! How many eggs are you waiting for?

I hope they hatch tomorrow!

 

[Happy Chooks]

8 eggs total. I gave her 9, but she kicked out 1 a week ago and it was not fertile.