What did you do in the garden today?

[Rick589]

Maybe fire up a incubator with the ants. Is there a another bird that may sit on them.

no bator. There are other hens but no one seems interested. I’m thinking of of setting up the brooder and moving them there for these last few hours of hatch. Does this seem like. good plan?

 

[Smokerbill]

The grandkids ate a bunch of peas from the vines. Health food!

 

[pennyJo1960]

no bator. There are other hens but no one seems interested. I’m thinking of of setting up the brooder and moving them there for these last few hours of hatch. Does this seem like. good plan?

Good idea.

 

[pennyJo1960]

The grandkids ate a bunch of peas from the vines. Health food!

The best way to start them.

 

[Smokerbill]

They like veggies straight from the garden, more fun than eating them from a plate.

 

[TJAnonymous]

no bator. There are other hens but no one seems interested. I’m thinking of of setting up the brooder and moving them there for these last few hours of hatch. Does this seem like. good plan?

I've found that moving the broody using means she abandons the eggs or tramples the chicks in her panic. Do you have diatomaceous earth or something organic you can put around the perimeter of the nesting box to deter the ants?

 

[pennyJo1960]

I've found that moving the broody using means she abandons the eggs or tramples the chicks in her panic. Do you have diatomaceous earth or something organic you can put around the perimeter of the nesting box to deter the ants?

I thought the hen had expired?

 

[TJAnonymous]

I thought the hen had expired?

No, I thought the first chick had hatched and expired. Not the broody

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hey I could be wrong

 

[ShrekDawg]

unbeknownst to us our first ever chick has died. I went to check the hen and egg count without lifting her, although the count was right at three but I did not realize that the one egg was new and that one had hatched. I must have run my hand right over the dead chick and didn’t realize it.The other two eggs are alive and haved pipped through the shell and are peeping. Interestingly, the only way I noticed something off was because of ants, there was no egg shell to be found. Any suggestions on what to do with the remaining eggs which are very much alive and in the process of hatching.

Emphasis by me. It was the chick.