ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

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[elevan]

I am sitting here eating an egg sandwich prior to going to the coop to check to see if any eggs have hatched. I'll let you know soon

 

[elevan]

Sad news for one egg...it was hatched out but not alive when I got to the coop. It was a chick...black with a yellow belly and a "top hat", making it my Appenzeller / Brahma cross.

Still waiting on the rest. She starting setting in the late afternoon to evening, so we've got plenty of time yet.

 

[elevan]

There have been no more hatches from Cinni's nest. So we're still waiting and


Dove has abandoned her nest...so I give up on her. I'll just risk fingers to remove eggs from her from now on. She kept nest flip flopping anyway.

Skeeter is still determined to set a nest in the barn. But she cannot set that nest, it's not a predator proof location. And she won't transfer to the coop boxes. Gah!

 

[redtailgal]

Em, I used to transfer nest for my birds by switching them at night. Wait until its good and dark and everything has gone to roost.

Pick her up, put her in the new nest and take a piece of cardboard to block her in for the night, offer her some food and water in the morning, then block her in until around lunch time. It USUALLY worked for me.

 

[elevan]

Em, I used to transfer nest for my birds by switching them at night. Wait until its good and dark and everything has gone to roost.

Pick her up, put her in the new nest and take a piece of cardboard to block her in for the night, offer her some food and water in the morning, then block her in until around lunch time. It USUALLY worked for me.

Thanks, I'll give that a shot tonight with Skeeter.

Do you think that it might work with Dove too. She wants to set in the coop but she keeps switching boxes. I thought about pulling her and the box and putting them both into my built in brooder and just feeding and watering her in there.... :/

 

[wannacow]

I put my broodies in the brooder box. I tried leaving them in the next boxes last year and had a terrible hatch. They too kept changing nests, meanwhile others kept laying in the setting nest... I won't let them do that again. Back to the brooder boxes.

 

[elevan]

The wonderful thing about my nest boxes is that they are 2 old lingerie dressers with alternate drawers removed, so all I have to do is pull the entire drawer out with the eggs and hen and move it. Makes for easy cleaning too. So, I'll pull Dove's box out tonight (whichever one she decides to set on) and put her in the brooder.

 

[elevan]

Another egg has hatched. Live chick. Pic coming soon!

 

[BarredRockMomma]