Author Topic: Ooooh broody. (Read 9818 times)

Hyacinth · « **Reply #20 on:** May 10, 2006, 22:50:49 »

Quote from: HO on May 09, 2006, 22:27:57

Dad used to reckon that you need ten feet of elevation but he was from Wiltshire

Why am I thinking Fawlty Towers here? ::) ;) :D

Heldi · « **Reply #21 on:** May 11, 2006, 00:07:21 »

I'm not going to beat them with a branch if thats what you're thinking!

teresa · « **Reply #22 on:** May 11, 2006, 08:04:39 »

Well if they ( hens) were humane the doctors most likely would give you a tablet. They seem to have tablets for everything these days ha ha
Instead of hormone replacement perhaps hormone deplacement. hee hee wonder if their is such a thing never mind the word?

Merlins Mum · « **Reply #23 on:** May 11, 2006, 20:36:32 »

Heldi, I want to see a daily picture update once they've hatched ;D

MM x

Heldi · « **Reply #24 on:** May 13, 2006, 20:57:54 »

I'll try my best MM !

10 days she has sat. I'm getting all nervous now!

Merlins Mum · « **Reply #25 on:** May 13, 2006, 21:24:31 »

You and OH will have to pace up and down outside the nest box nearer the time ;D ;D

MM x

teresa · « **Reply #26 on:** May 13, 2006, 21:44:22 »

Oh 11 days to go.
Only had one hen to hatch chicks. That morning I went in to her and heard cheeping realy magical moment.
Now very clean cut with incubator but still magical to hear the first one cheep.
I did candle one egg once and saw the head and beak that was great.

Heldi · « **Reply #27 on:** May 14, 2006, 11:27:53 »

Teresa, what do I do when they hatch?!! Do I throw in some chick crumbs and then let mother get on with it? I'm panicing now. Eeeeeek!!! Why do I always throw myself in at the deep end?!!!

Also, I don't think I've mentioned it on here yet...OH bid on six buff orpington eggs on ebay...and got them. They arrived on Friday. We are scrabbling about wondering what to do. (deep end again). No one on the lotty has got a broody to lend us. Non of our other girls are looking like they want to sit. We are pouring over the net and through mags looking for a small incubator. I'm in a panic about this aswell.

If we do go down the incubator root...what do I need to know? I am wondering what you do with the chicks when they hatch and they aint got mother hen to look out for them?

Talk about deep end.I think I've jumped into the Pacific...oh no SHARKS !!!!!

Heldi · « **Reply #28 on:** May 14, 2006, 11:51:46 »

Ooooh news just in...OH is at the lotty now. Dicky, the guy who gave us the banty eggs for our broody to sit on, has got two broody banties now! He has offered to lend us one to sit on the orpy eggs lol! OH is busy clearing out yet another part of the shed,setting about constructing another nest box and Dennis is preparing to move apartments. Will six orpy eggs will fit under a banty... I don't know? :D

Hyacinth · « **Reply #29 on:** May 14, 2006, 14:35:44 »

simple solution Helds....choose the banty with the biggest bum ;D

Heldi · « **Reply #30 on:** May 16, 2006, 17:50:49 »

I now have one of Dicky's banty's officially sitting on 6 orpy eggs...though I haven't seen it yet ! Not been to lotty since Saturday.

Hopefully OH did choose the one with the biggest heiney...heehee!

teresa · « **Reply #31 on:** May 16, 2006, 22:31:37 »

Oh Heidi,
Broody will take care of chicks, first 24hrs normaly stay under mums wings recovering and drying off.
When they venture out with mum, a enclosed aera is best put twosaucers in one for chick crumbs the other for water not too deep so they dont drown.
bantam chicks I have used a jam jar lids. Make sure water is always clean and available for them. My chicks tend to wash their feet in it and can get quite dirty.
Take their heads and dip their beaks in the water once or twice they get the hang of it. Broody will encourage them to eat.
They can survive for 3 days on the yolk they asorb from the egg but need to get water down them.
Then its plain sailing.
So OH has his eggs under banty hope bum is big enough, ha ha.
Do take a photo of banty on eggs love to see her.

Merlins Mum · « **Reply #32 on:** May 17, 2006, 08:21:50 »

Quote from: teresa on May 16, 2006, 22:31:37

Do take a photo of banty on eggs love to see her.

So would I, they could be my buff orps she's sitting on ;D
MM x

Heldi · « **Reply #33 on:** May 17, 2006, 10:05:44 »

Thanks teresa,I'm so glad you're here to help!

It just so happens....

teresa · « **Reply #34 on:** May 17, 2006, 10:10:27 »

Hi Heidi,

( It just so happens....)

What has happened now you have me worried?

Heldi · « **Reply #35 on:** May 17, 2006, 10:17:28 »

Those were taken last evening. The banty seems to be coping with the big eggs! So fingers are well and truly crossed teresa and MM !! She will have sat for 3 days by this evening. OH did a great job of the new pen and she seems to have settled in nicely,despite Dennis being nextdoor to her! He is sooo noisy! He can't see her though, I hasten to add.

Aeryn will have sat for 17 days by this evening. I could hardly see her in her nest box last night. I was worried for a bit but then she popped out for a drink and a bite to eat, a poop and away back into the nest!

We might split the new pen in two and put Aeryn and her chicks in there, we are feeling it might be better for her.

Funny thing...the banty (I'll have to name her even though she isn't mine..any ideas?) Anyway, she is probably the mother of one or two of the eggs Aeryn is sitting on! So now you can see what kind of banty the chicks are going to be!

;D ;D ;D

Heldi · « **Reply #36 on:** May 17, 2006, 10:18:25 »

Sorry teresa I forgot to add the pics lol! Too excited. They are up there now!

teresa · « **Reply #37 on:** May 17, 2006, 10:32:00 »

Oh pic's I realised when I went back in after I posted. sorry.
She is beautiful and OH has done a lovely job.
When do you need to return the banty?
Just wondering if your hen will adopt the chicks some can be funny.
Well we will cross that bridge when we come to it.
You can always divide the run and have both in it, this way they see each other with out chicks escaping accross.
fingers crossed for the 24th if I have it right first batch.
but do be carefull it is aditive I say that from experence hee hee I love hatching.

Hyacinth · « **Reply #38 on:** May 17, 2006, 15:34:50 »

Quote from: teresa on May 17, 2006, 10:32:00

She is beautiful

So why not name her Bella or Belle? 8) :D

katynewbie · « **Reply #39 on:** May 17, 2006, 15:54:33 »

:-\

She is an English bird...it will have to be Bertha!

;D

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