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Welcome Jim! Looks like you're doing a great job on your coop! I'm sure you'll find lots of help and interesting discussion here. Keep us informed on your progress.

Signed the google petition.

Patience Grasshopper, your ladies are still young.

Thanks for the research, Animalian. Really interesting.

If it were me, I'd choose your second option - I like to have a line of sight to the coop. Needs to be a bit removed for me to be happy though - especially if you're planning on meat birds. Though they grow fast to point of processing, they can create quite a stink as they literally eat and...

Quote: Marans crossed with a blue egg layer will give you an olive egg... If you have supposed marans that look like mixes - one of them is probably your culprit x 2

Quote: x 2 - also enables them to sit on their feet while roosting - reduces frost bite in cold winter areas. Love your coop!

pic 4 is a cockerel - look at that stance and demeanor, haha - little baby stink eye! (not to mention those nice red comb and wattles). i would guess that your millefleur is also a cockerel. btw, chick in pic 2 is absolutely ADORABLE!

So sorry about your babies. Here's a link to Pete55's sticky on hatching: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=491013 It's a very good read. I've noticed that many people have an incomplete understanding of the process, and Pete makes it very understandable. Obviously...

From this year's hatch I still have one olive egger that hasn't begun to lay - 37 weeks. Her sister just began giving me gorgeous olive eggs about a week ago. I was beginning to wonder, but it's worth the wait - I love those olive eggs!

Mine have really sweet personalities (they are the ones who will always tolerate my granddaughter carrying them around the yard), and one is a great little broody mama, but I don't find them impressive as egg layers. Their other qualities will probably be enough to insure that I always keep a...

I love my Brinsea Eco. I have the (optional) turner, but as already mentioned, the whole unit is shaped to be turned easily by hand. It's a very good little incubator, extremely user friendly, holds temp. well, and when opened and closed humidity recovers quickly. I'm definitely a fan.

I think you'll be ok. Sending good hatching vibes.

I love my Brinsea Eco.

I was just out bringing some hot oats and quinoa to the birds and a big old branch has fallen missing the coop by about a foot. Other broken branches around the back as well. : (

Here we go again guys - darn, so soon!

If it were me, I'd leave her with the flock and move the nest to a lower spot. This is how I currently have a broody with four chicks (several weeks old now). They are all integrating beautifully. You would need to keep an eye out initially for any aggression, but you'd be surprised how well...