Egg Hatching and Keeping Chickens

I don’t know if the coconut fiber nesting 🪹 is the best choice for new chicks to hatch in??? @farmerjan
I am going to leave her in the dog crate.
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CLSranch said:
I wouldn't make them get up. That's just me though, she knows what she's doing.

Odd fact. Normally they have that one huge poop at night which is almost the same combined poops all day out of the coop combined. She's just not pooping on her eggs.

Congrats on the new babies.

And we have one going broody right now.
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You would be proud of me,, I never went and got her to poop. When she got off the nest she would make a big fuss to be let out, so I would let her out,, she would do her biz, eat take a dust bath, drink and go back.
Today is day 20, broody is very serious today and has not gotten up once, 🤭🤭🤭 and I just let her be 🪹
 
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Morning... great big foggy morning... But it is warming slowly... only 64 overnight.

@Grandmas Porch ; I honestly do not know anything about the coconut fiber ... never used it.. My hens seem to make a nest that gets pretty compacted by the time they are ready to hatch..
Sadly, the langshans eggs were not fertile "enough" to go the full term, a couple had blood rings.. and since I had more chicks than she could cover, from the incubator hatch, I just broke her up . Took the eggs and she just quit. Hoping she will lay again and maybe I can get some chicks out of her eventually.

I use shredded paper, shavings, and leaves/dried grass in my pens. Let them make their own nests... and as soon as they are sitting good, will usually move them to a separate pen so they don't get other hens in there trying to lay eggs... eggs get broken that way.
 
farmerjan said:
Morning... great big foggy morning... But it is warming slowly... only 64 overnight.

@Grandmas Porch ; I honestly do not know anything about the coconut fiber ... never used it.. My hens seem to make a nest that gets pretty compacted by the time they are ready to hatch..
Sadly, the langshans eggs were not fertile "enough" to go the full term, a couple had blood rings.. and since I had more chicks than she could cover, from the incubator hatch, I just broke her up . Took the eggs and she just quit. Hoping she will lay again and maybe I can get some chicks out of her eventually.

I use shredded paper, shavings, and leaves/dried grass in my pens. Let them make their own nests... and as soon as they are sitting good, will usually move them to a separate pen so they don't get other hens in there trying to lay eggs... eggs get broken that way.
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Thanks, I may use dried grass, I have plenty of that and not much for leaves.
 
I went out at 5am, ticked her off, I put each egg A, B, E,
[ she smashed C, & D] to my ear. and then put the super bright flashlight under and candled them.
B, I could hear scratching and looked solid
E, nothing, and I saw a air pocket and dark
A, nothing, and I saw air and what I think was liquid

I think she defiantly has one #B, that will hatch, #E I will give it until Wednesday AM, #A I will leave, watch until Wed.


PS
since she may only hatch one egg, I did have another hen get broody yesterday,, I gave he 8 eggs I think, maybe 7
 
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according to this video, the chick #B may not actually hatch until tomorrow, based on first peeping today??
 
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