Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Stefrrr]

I have done both trick is to give her a couple eggs first let her think they hatched... after you get the chicks take a egg give a peep, take another and so on yes can be more peeps then eggs

I’m going to give this a try.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Let me know if it works.. My broody EE made it two days then she went and crawled into a different nest box so fired up my small Janoel12 incubator but only holds 9 big ones

 

[Hinotori]

I've been having issues with my EEs just wantinto hatch the eggs, not deal with chicks.

Thank goodness for my silkies. The little 3/4 silkie has been a super mom and will definitely get chicks again.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning this is the one got from bud when she placed all her birds here odd part her bud the other EE was dead in coop so obvious sing of injury

 

[Hinotori]

Three weeks old. All are very healthy. They eat like little pigs, those crops are huge.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Boy they like to eat out huh I do have 9 in the incubator

 

[Hinotori]

I tossed down some shredded cheese. Everyone likes shredded cheese. Cat saw and came begging so I had to give her some too.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Our outdoor ones have expressed an interest in being inside problem is there are 4 inside all of a sudden

 

[Cluckatar]

I started nine eggs the last day of February in our small incubator. This is the first time for me, and these are our own eggs from the silver cuckoo marans roo with silver cuckoo marans hen plus with two snowy white easter egger hens. The goal was learn to use the incubator, don't get attached, maybe add two olive egger hens to the flock. At lockdown 8 eggs were still going strong. As of today, I have 8 chicks The first four hatched on their own no issues. We moved them Saturday morning to the brooder all fluffed up. The last four, we managed to end up with shrinkwrapped chicks, still alive and chirping at us, but stuck with no sign of zip. At 24 hours from pip we assisted one of them. There is no way that little one was getting out alone, but it was perfectly healthy as soon as we got it out. We slowly started that with the last three. They are all alive this morning! The very last was a really tough call and I thought we were losing it, but she popped up in the incubator all fluffy this morning and I think she's going to make it. Whew.

Two eggs were marans, so those theoretically will be full cuckoo maras. Four more look just like them, but came from blue eggs. And two are yellow chicks! I was not expecting that, thinking the snowy white easter egger would be recessive, but essentially an easter egger is a grab bag so all bets are off... and our Snowy rooster was only re-homed a few days before I started gathering eggs. Perhaps he snuck into this hatch after all.

 

[Sequel]

I started nine eggs the last day of February in our small incubator. This is the first time for me, and these are our own eggs from the silver cuckoo marans roo with silver cuckoo marans hen plus with two snowy white easter egger hens. The goal was learn to use the incubator, don't get attached, maybe add two olive egger hens to the flock. At lockdown 8 eggs were still going strong. As of today, I have 8 chicks The first four hatched on their own no issues. We moved them Saturday morning to the brooder all fluffed up. The last four, we managed to end up with shrinkwrapped chicks, still alive and chirping at us, but stuck with no sign of zip. At 24 hours from pip we assisted one of them. There is no way that little one was getting out alone, but it was perfectly healthy as soon as we got it out. We slowly started that with the last three. They are all alive this morning! The very last was a really tough call and I thought we were losing it, but she popped up in the incubator all fluffy this morning and I think she's going to make it. Whew.

Two eggs were marans, so those theoretically will be full cuckoo maras. Four more look just like them, but came from blue eggs. And two are yellow chicks! I was not expecting that, thinking the snowy white easter egger would be recessive, but essentially an easter egger is a grab bag so all bets are off... and our Snowy rooster was only re-homed a few days before I started gathering eggs. Perhaps he snuck into this hatch after all.

Congratulations! Good luck with the not getting attached idea! They are just adorable!!!