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Hi all. Hope you share my excitment..... Yesterday we went outside to move our broody as it was 26 days and no chicks... And can you imagine our faces when we lifted her and a little black chick was staring back at us!!!! We separated her from the others put her in a separate pen with her mother and this morning 2 more eggs have hatched!!! 2 black chicks one yellow!! Am so so happy!! Just advice now... How long until we move the eggs that haven't hatched? I ran to the shop and bought chick crumbs and a chick drinker so they have food and water and any other advice would be most appreciated....
From one proud mummy!!!!!
 
I'd give her another couple of days or as long as she stays sitting on them. Your timing seems to be up the creek so worth seeing if there are more to come !

Enjoy !
 
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Well done to your broody mum, have you candelled the other eggs that have not hatched, the chicks that have hatched will need to feed and drink, if the broody is still sitting on eggs she will not teach the chicks to feed.
Personaly I would candle eggs she is fertile / any movement, if it has been 27 days since she sat on them chance are no further will hatch, I would remove the other eggs and let her be mum to her 3 beautiful chicks
 
Thanks all.... We now have 6!!!! We found one dead :-( although the others seem strong enough so fingers crossed! We will probably remove the eggs tomorrow as although one hatched today that is now 28 days so doubt any more will come although the timings are all over the place for her now! We have another broody who is nowhere near as good a mum as our beautiful bantam and her eggs are due to hatch on Wednesday and am half thinking to just remove the eggs that haven't hatched and replace them with her egss and see what happens. Would this be a good idea!? I have fallen in love with the new chicks and thinking nature is a wonderful thing xxxx
 
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One week old today. No idea what they are. My wife started a project with her preschool and we decided to keep them. Getting a dozen chicks today. Not sure what, but there are a lot of choices. Ill post some more pictures when I get them.
 
wish i had not seen the pics my 2 lots of chicks never made it though the first 30 mins or so with the broody for some reason :( but i am so glad that yours are happy and healthy cute aint they and dont you just want to cuddle them for hours .... i may get a few 2 day olds for mine as shes soooooooooooo stressed just had someone call me back about his chicks so i may call him back tomorw .
 
Well we now have 2 maternity wards!!!..... Our bantam is a wonderful mother they are so brilliant to watch and a couple of days ago we went out and one of the chicks looked dead laying in the straw but when we picked it up there was slight movement so we rushed her in and put her under a lamp in the warm conservatory she lay there for a while and then started to twitch.... We drip fed it water and eventually it came round and after only an hour it was crying for it's mum!!!! Amazing!!! We have now named Lazerus... I will post some pics! We also have another hen who was sat in eggs and 2 of them have hatched now also!!! One skyline and one cream leg bar (cagey and Lacey) so cute!!! I think the legbar is female I will post a pic to see what you all think! x
 
cream legbar chicks are so so pretty :D and if you handle them loads they become so very tame as soon as i entred the run when i had mine they would fly up and sit on my shoulders or if i was bending down they would just come and sit on my back :lol: i do miss them but i know they went to a very good home and i am going to collect a few 2 day olds tonight of my friend for my broody unless i pick them up this morning as i got to go over there :D :D cant wait and i know she will take to them .
 
now i am happy i have taken the risk and got 2 day old chicks from my friend and although the broody was a little shocked to hear them it only took her about 45 secs to nestle down and let them go under her but i did have to help one of them a little think he or she got confused and wow was she looking content with herself finally she can be a mum but of course the next few days will be worrying and i wont check on them now until at least tomorrow morning as i want her to bond with them but everything is set up so i dont need to go in there anyways :D :D :D even i feel contented :lol: :lol:
 
That's lovely!!! Nature is such a wonderful thing! If anyone had told me two years ago I would be so obsessed with chickens I would've told them they were crazy! But here I am running down to the garden checking my chicks every couple of hours! It's amazing! I blame my dad... He had chickens when he was a boy so now he comes round every day to check on them and we have this "chicken bond" now... So nearly 40 years old and still making memories with my dad!... You got to love it!! Good luck with yours xx
 
and good luck with yours as well :D it is addictive :lol: even when they drive you up the wall like get under your feet just when you dont want them to .
 
just to let you know the chicks are doing fine still under mum although this morning she did peck one on the head not sure if it was to tell it to get back under her or what but now i just got to worry as its so so wet that the house is getting a little wet inside cant do much tell i get home later :( i may just move her back into the rabbit hutch this afternoon with the babies until i can get the other house totally dry.
 
i am so sad :( :( had to let one of the chicks go today someone { who i dont get on with to well culled him or her for me } it had splayed out legs and couldnt walk so it was kinda to let it go to sleep and i cried so i only have the one chick now dont know what to do when mum gets annoyed with it and i have to sperate them i so knew i should of asked for more then 2 chicks but oh well at least i have leant yet something else , am going to ask around if anyone has a young bird that i can put with mine when the time is right as i dont want it growing up on its own although it will always be close to my other girls they wont like it being with them as they didnt really get on with the chicks from last year .
 
shez said:
Hi all. Hope you share my excitment..... Yesterday we went outside to move our broody as it was 26 days and no chicks... And can you imagine our faces when we lifted her and a little black chick was staring back at us!!!! We separated her from the others put her in a separate pen with her mother and this morning 2 more eggs have hatched!!! 2 black chicks one yellow!! Am so so happy!! Just advice now... How long until we move the eggs that haven't hatched? I ran to the shop and bought chick crumbs and a chick drinker so they have food and water and any other advice would be most appreciated....
From one proud mummy!!!!!
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I always float unhatched eggs that are left in the nest. Lower them gently into warm water, and watch. Live eggs will soon start to bob about. If they are floating high with no movement they are almost certainly dead, or 'clear'. What you will often find if you have other hens in the same house as the broody, are late lays, eggs that sink when you put them in the water. Many hens whose own eggs die or are scratched out can sit for up to six or seven weeks and hatch a load of late lays! It isn't recommended though. The hen looses heat after a while and very late lays are seldom healthy.
 
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