BROODY AND EGGS!!!

Why would you want to take the chicks away after a week???? They need to either be under their mum or under a heatlamp or electric hen for a few weeks after hatching as they need heat.

It varies when they come back into lay after sitting/raising chicks. I had one start laying again after 4 weeks 7 she was happy to have her chicks with her til about 12 weeks, then another took 2 months to lay, but she was fed up with the chicks at 8 weeks. :-)17

looking forward to hearing when they hatch :-)08
 
i just wanted to kno cuz ive got her in a rabbit hutch and after a few weeks there wont be anough room for them all so i was wondering if i bring the chicks in after a week or so and put them in my indoor cage with heat lamp wether she will just go bk with my other hens and start laying again

but after what u said i may as well bring her in to and let her bring them up inside lol
 
farmerjon1988 said:
i just wanted to kno cuz ive got her in a rabbit hutch and after a few weeks there wont be anough room for them all so i was wondering if i bring the chicks in after a week or so and put them in my indoor cage with heat lamp wether she will just go bk with my other hens and start laying again

but after what u said i may as well bring her in to and let her bring them up inside lol
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is she going to be potective of them when they hatch? will she peck me if i try to pick on up?
 
She'll still get up if she wants to, dont try to pick the chicks up for a day or 2 .
 
Hi,

I would be very careful about being tempted to handle those cute little chicks when you first catch sight of them. I think our eagerness to handle the one and only chick which successfully hatched last spring, was instrumental in the mother rejecting it! It died 3 days later.

LEAVE WELL ALONE AND VIEW FROM A DISTANCE WITH BINOCULARS IF NECESSARY.
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very best of luck!!!
 
good luck for tomorrow! and leave those chicks with their mums untill they are at least a month old. mother knows best! x
 
ok cool cheers for that

i wasnt gonna pick them up straight away i was gonna wait afew days first and i am gonna leave them with her they will be better off being looked after by her :)

and cheers she keeps moving about abit now and shes pulling the hay thats fell out of her nest back in
cant wait il let u kno how she gets on :)
 
Have patience, it could still happen a day later. Good luck. Last year we didn.t touch the chicks for about 2 weeks. :)
 
I would leave it for 3/4 days after they are due to hatch. Did u candle these eggs, from what I can remember I think u was told not to. Last year we hatched under 2 broodies and candled them. We ordered 6. 4 were viable, 3 hatched. It all comes down to how active your cockerel is and how good a job the broody makes of it.
 
ok cool will do and no i never candled them cuz she is a vicious broody lol and she only got off the eggs in the morning and by then it was to light so ive left everything up to her :) il wait and see if anything happens tomorrow
 
yaaaaay!

i woke up this morning and let the chickens out then checked on my broody and she wasnt pancaked anymore and then we seen a little head pop out but i can hear more then one cheeping so i think there is more to come :)

the one weve seen looks like a black orp and he/she is determind to get out the nest but my broody keeps pushing him/her bk under lol

il let u kno more when we kno more lol and hopefully pop some pics up :)
 
Great news, so pleased some are hatching. Don't be too tempted to keep looking, let them get on with it for a while. :)
 
this is chick number 1

we think its a black orpington

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weve seen another head poking out and we think there mite be another under her but not sure till she takes them out for there first walk :)

when she leaves the nest should i take the eggs out that didnt hatch or should i keep them in for abit longer?
 
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