Growing my little flock

[DonyaQuick]

My broody's eggs failed, so I bought her some chicks.
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Noooooo you said the B-word! LOL One of my cochins must have looked over my sholder and and found your post to be inspirational since I now have another nest box troll screaming at me when I go to collect eggs. It would actually be rather well lined up with my mail order chicks...but the whole indoor broody thing really didn't go well for a different cochin earlier in the year...but the current broody one has been great around my older chicks (not mama-mode but has let them sit under her on cooler nights). Can't make my mind up what to do with her now.

 

[DonyaQuick]

So I think I do indeed have 5 duds in the incubator. That is the outcome I was expecting, but still a bummer. Hopefully a peeping box in 2 more weeks will make it into less of a bummer.

Meanwhile I have no way to easily un-broody the maniac below between the way the weather has been and the way she bombasically freaks out in the house. Miss Sasquatch here is so desperate to incubate things that she will brood anything from wadded up shavings to one of the 12-week-old pullets she's in with, so I guess I just have to hope that a peeping box in a couple weeks will help with that situation.

 

[DonyaQuick]

That awkward moment when you go to make sure the broody didn't steal any eggs and have to extract a 2lb pullet instead (note the gray mottled feathers poking out under her chest...)

 

[DonyaQuick]

Two more recruits for the frat house! Mr 4lbs-at-12-weeks Kang on the left clearly remembers Speedy and Smoke from their overlapping time in the house in different brooder setups, since I let them visit each others' rooms sometimes.