Who else is setting... I wanna see pics!

[Paganbird]

How about Ziti?

(Still no guinea.)

 

[pbjmaker]

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I have a pair of cochins that have co-brooder twice. This time just one went broody and has one chick. All of a sudden the other one is jealous and is trying to sit. I don't have a chick to give her now. The silkies are still doing good. I will open the cage door tomorrow and see if they will take them out.

I like Ziti

 

[Laurieks]

One of Six

Well they are out in the world now, or a little closer anyway.

Yesterday I moved the two broodies and their chicks from the giant storage tubs (they each had their own) into wire dog crates so they could get their feet (and poop) into the dirt.
Today I moved them all together (Mrs Blue & her two, Blackclaw & her four) into the chicken tractor. I wish I had two tractors; Mrs Blue keeps attacking Blackclaw.

'Blue' is about 8 years old, & Blackclaw is only one. I exiled Blue for while; she fussed around the outside of the tractor, so I put her in the coop with the door open. She promptly forgot she had chicks and went to bed on her old perch. But her two chicks missed her, so I put her back in and they seem to have staked out territory and made a truce. **Update; they're co-brooding just fine now**
I would love it if they would co-brood; (since more chicks are coming) they've been in adjacent boxes for um, a week now!

 

[Paganbird]

No guinea.

It had pipped through a vein & must have bled out before it even finished absorbing the yolk. There was no blood visible from the outside from the pip.
I chipped away at the shell this am to see if it was still alive & found the blood pooled around its head.

That's disappointing.

 

[farrier!]

Bummer

 

[walkswithdog]

Unborn chick suicide is one of those things... Dude do NOT tear out through your own umbilical cord, do NOT try to hatch through your own yolksac and don't try to hatch through major veins... you'd think nature would post that somewhere inside the shell... As often as I see those things it's a wonder the species survive at all... dumb birds.

 

[Laurieks]

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Sorry to hear that =[

<<Dude do NOT tear out through your own umbilical cord, do NOT try to hatch through your own yolksac and don't try to hatch through major veins... you'd think nature would post that somewhere inside the shell...>> I agree.

 

[Paganbird]

So...
who still has eggs in the 'bator?
I worked a double shift last night, so I slept all day yesterday then worked 2:30pm to 7:30am, slept again, and just woke up.I have to go back in tonite, but I had to get online... having BYC withdrawl.

 

[pbjmaker]

No eggs left for me. I just had one more pullet go broody - trying to break her. October is too late to be having chicks around here. She has chick envy and has set up her empty nest right next to the silkies and their 8 chicks. She even got up and walked with them for a bit today - then went back to her nest.

 

[emvickrey]

I still have eggs. due in 5 days. I have some more waiting to go in the bator. I want to get my stock built back up so I can have more that are laying to sell eggs in the spring. I'd rather sell fresh eggs than some that i've had to collect for a while just to get a dozen. I'll have EE's, Production reds and AO's. And hopefully Sizzles too