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[TheReidHomestead]

Yeah, I realize that with the hatch. I'm more worried about the chicks I have in the brooder that aren't even a week old yet. We lost a bunch of day old chicks in Feb because our heat lamp was plugged into a GFI outlet that tripped overnight. Woke up to find them all gone!

Probably extra worried because that happened. But we'll make it work either way.

 

[BlackWatchLady]

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Getting the rain, no hail no thunder down in my neck of the woods...(near Lacey) Wind this morning blew the cap off my woodstoves pipe....Dh will have to climb up and replace it....
Tara

 

[herbandteas]

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Getting the rain, no hail no thunder down in my neck of the woods...(near Lacey) Wind this morning blew the cap off my woodstoves pipe....Dh will have to climb up and replace it....
Tara

Tara welcome to BYC Washington

Thats some wind you have out there!

 

[Sparkelrose]

WIND and RAIN here!!! I built a new brooder pen yesterday for my1-3week old chicks. I was so worried about them last night the wind has been so bad here! My house keeps moving

and my 3 month olds are out in all of it, they wouldn't go back in when I fed them this morning. I'm glad my bator is empty at the moment, good luck to all who has eggs in, I hope your power stays on.

 

[spectrejazz]

Sorry there are so many problems out there in chicken land. Seattle had a pretty windy night, as well, but no power issues. Plus we use a hen as the bator

Good luck everybody, I hope to see more cute pics of chicks soon!

 

[Illia]

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So jealous of you with broody hens!! We'll hopefully get some when our Marans mature, then when the rest of our Marans and Araucanas mature. For the mean time, we have Easter Eggers, Wyandottes, and Brahmas who just won't go broody due to being hatchery birds. And as for our Ameraucanas. . . Never heard of them being broody before.

 

[spectrejazz]

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Didn't want fuss around with the machinery, our place not being very large, so we went out and found a hen who was sitting on eggs. Put her in a box on some eggs and then laid her in the nesting box on top of eggs. There she sits! She is a good one, too. Half Cochin and Half Barred Rock, she takes care of herself as far as eating and stretching her legs. We were lucky to find such an able-bodied hen.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

I'm hoping with all the cochins we have in the incubator, that we will get some broodies as well in the future. I also picked up 2 silkies at the feed store last week for my youngest, and hope that at least one of them is female for the same reason.

Tamara

 

[spectrejazz]

So Illia, why do hatchery hens fail to go broody? I know that it is uncommon for many breeds to go broody, but is it more specific to hatchery produced chicks? If anyone else has any info on this, I would be very interested. Thanks!

 

[Illia]

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Hatcheries specifically like to breed out broodiness, as it interrupts with their supply and demand. Also, my breeds are known not to be very broody in the first place. So really, if you get a hatchery Silkie - It will probably still sit on anything, but I don't know for sure. All I know is that I've never had a hatchery-born hen go broody, and the big reason behind that is that hatcheries breed it out - They just want chickens to lay as many eggs as possible so they can sell as many chicks as possible.