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Hey I think one or two of my eggs are exploding!!!! :lau
 
Anyone looking for a good broody hen? I have the queen of them that i'm looking to sell.





Background:
I crossed a FBCM roo over an easter egger trying to get some olive eggers - got 2 hens. One is an olive egger (great layer). The other (this one) lays dark brown eggs (also a very strong layer when not broody). In doing this cross I think I bred the most broody hen ever. She got broody back in March and I couldn't break her - so I have her eggs to hatch. She hatched them - mothered the chicks for about 2 weeks - spent a few days back w/ the flock (I put the chicks in my brooding pen) and is going broody again.

All that said - I don't really want a perpetually broody hen - but I figured somebody might. She is less than a year old - hatched Sept 2016.

Anyone interested?

I'm in Mableton - West Side of atlanta
 
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JoshFig said:
Anyone looking for a good broody hen? I have the queen of them that i'm looking to sell. Background: I crossed a FBCM roo over an easter egger trying to get some olive eggers - got 2 hens. One is an olive egger (great layer). The other (this one) lays dark brown eggs (also a very strong layer when not broody). In doing this cross I think I bred the most broody hen ever. She got broody back in March and I couldn't break her - so I have her eggs to hatch. She hatched them - mothered the chicks for about 2 weeks - spent a few days back w/ the flock (I put the chicks in my brooding pen) and is going broody again. All that said - I don't really want a perpetually broody hen - but I figured somebody might. She is less than a year old - hatched Sept 2016. Anyone interested?
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I am sooooo bummed out. Put my ducks in lockdown on Tuesday. One had already pipped. They were due Friday. Anyway, had 5 pipping. One hatched yesterday. We left early this morning and got back about noon. The humidity went down to 49! Ugh! I could tell the ones pipping were in distress...They were grasping for air and had weak chirps, so I took them out and they were pretty much stuck in there. One was already dead. So, I have 4 out. I candled the other 7 and they all look lifeless! So sad, they all looked good on Tuesday. I opened one that I knew for sure was not alive and it still had a good size yoke sac. I think they must have died right around lockdown. Not sure what happened. I usually have such good hatches......I take it the humidity was a factor. I am hoping these 4 that hatched make it and turn out to be girls, but I wouldn't mind having one new male.
 
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I am sooooo bummed out.  Put my ducks in lockdown on Tuesday.  One had already pipped.  They were due Friday.  Anyway, had 5 pipping.  One hatched yesterday.  We left early this morning and got back about noon.  The humidity went down to 49!  Ugh!  I could tell the ones pipping were in distress...They were grasping for air and had weak chirps, so I took them out and they were pretty much stuck in there.  One was already dead.  So, I have 4 out.  I candled the other 7 and they all look lifeless!  So sad, they all looked good on Tuesday.  I opened one that I knew for sure was not alive and it still had a good size yoke sac.  I think they must have died right around lockdown.  Not sure what happened.  I usually have such good hatches......I take it the humidity was a factor.  I am hoping these 4 that hatched make it and turn out to be girls, but I wouldn't mind having one new male. 
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Bummer
 
Flowerbh said:
I am sooooo bummed out. Put my ducks in lockdown on Tuesday. One had already pipped. They were due Friday. Anyway, had 5 pipping. One hatched yesterday. We left early this morning and got back about noon. The humidity went down to 49! Ugh! I could tell the ones pipping were in distress...They were grasping for air and had weak chirps, so I took them out and they were pretty much stuck in there. One was already dead. So, I have 4 out. I candled the other 7 and they all look lifeless! So sad, they all looked good on Tuesday. I opened one that I knew for sure was not alive and it still had a good size yoke sac. I think they must have died right around lockdown. Not sure what happened. I usually have such good hatches......I take it the humidity was a factor. I am hoping these 4 that hatched make it and turn out to be girls, but I wouldn't mind having one new male.
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So sorry to hear that. It's just different incubating ducks, I think. Better luck next time. Maybe all is not lost and you'll have a good male/female ratio.
 

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