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Now I am thinking about housing a second brood. I have the A-frame brooder refreshed with clean straw, ready for Rahab and her brood... but what about Tamar? Her nest is in a wheelbarrow in the back, near the roost. I could use my dog crate brooder with a cover added to keep the flock from 💩...

Oh, and there's an egg unzipping under Tamar! :yesss:

Sixteen... Just hatched! Rahab looks happy...

I just realized...I currently have FIFTEEN chickens! Chicken Math is REAL!! :th

I took the three chicks that had hatched outside to the coop. I checked the pipped egg I'd placed under Rahab earlier, but nothing had progressed. As I reached underneath Rahab she gave me a strong peck, not painful, just firm. I took one chick in my hand, reached under Rahab using the back of...

More like rugby! :lau

Third egg hatching video: What a struggle it went through, and its siblings were not helpful at all! :gig

The eggs were warm, and she's now back on the nest. Tamar has been faithful, but careless as a broody, six may have been too many though she's big enough to cover them. She still has five eggs. Rahab has been incredibly devoted. I'm hoping the pipped egg hatches under her.

Three incubator babies...

I checked on Tamar's eggs. Tamar was NOT on her nest, she was perched on the back of my chair, fluffed up and announcing her state. I checked her eggs and found one that had pipped! :ya I made an immediate executive decision, and slid the pipped egg under Rahab, who has been faithfully brooding...

Two hatched! One more has pipped and is zipping, in front. Its siblings keep rolling it around.

Oh my, another one is zipping!!!!

And it IS a pip! First chick has settled down next to the one that is definitely pipping! "Hurry up! I want a playmate!"

It looks like a hole, left side of egg.

Does this look like a pip?!?! :fl:eek::jumpy This is like Christmas 🎄🎄🎄!

Good morning Little Bit... :jumpy:love:wee I woke up early and when I walked into the den I heard chirping! :ya

Girl...??? :fl

Hannah is still being a 💩. She was on the left side of the roost, and all the chicks were smooshed up against each other tightly, trying to avoid her. Martha was in the middle and LC was roosting below, on the edge of the wheelbarrow where Tamar is brooding. I moved Hannah to the far right side...

I've been doing some research about putting chicks under a broody hen...others here recommended that the hen brood for at least two weeks. Rahab started sleeping in the nest box on May 7th. Today is the 22nd. Good to know, jic.