tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5714915916932125719.post4095723494734770939..comments2024-03-25T00:47:29.417+10:00Comments on The Practical Frog Blog: Setting fertile eggs under a broody hen... our experiance!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5714915916932125719.post-39154995449198418402015-11-24T19:58:19.150+10:002015-11-24T19:58:19.150+10:00Lol, yes so true about the different personalities...Lol, yes so true about the different personalities in chickens! We have a bossy little silkie that gets broody with regularity but on the odd occasion that she gets to hatch anything, she manages to either squash eggs, leave the eggs too early or hatch them and just forget about them for long periods! I do think that maybe it has to do with the fact that she has so much fluff on her head and therefore limited vision!!!<br />Happy to hear you've saved the little one. Evihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098163128625989839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5714915916932125719.post-48365428936703054572015-11-24T09:20:08.215+10:002015-11-24T09:20:08.215+10:00Hi Evi!
I think the Arucana is just to flighty to ...Hi Evi!<br />I think the Arucana is just to flighty to sit and hatch the eggs. There was a big difference in the attitudes of the two mothers certainly! Sostice sta in a trance for three weeks, Rain flibbertigibbtt-ed around and I think that's how she smashed them - not an egg sitter even though her instinct kicks in each time she sees and egg! I think the baby had a tendon issue. It was the walking that was an issue. Once it worked out how to eat - it was away. I may have been trying to feed it too soon after it hatched. We tried hobbles that she got off in less than 10 minutes each time but I think the manipulation of her legs may have clicked it back into place. She/he is "running" with the other chick, just much slower. Its much smaller than the biggest chick but not significantly smaller than the smallest. I am feeding it up on special chick food three times a day to make sure its getting a decent amount of food - Ill do a post in a week or so when it comes good (or not0 and let people know what happened!<br />I only post from my experience - im not an oracal on any subject s you will always get the "this is what happened to e" on any subject. I love reading about peoples actual experience rather than what they think they should do!<br />Thanks for dropping by! - K xPractical Froghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05929264270672991301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5714915916932125719.post-30181565684674526532015-11-20T20:19:53.065+10:002015-11-20T20:19:53.065+10:00Oh my goodness Kara!!! That was the loveliest chic...Oh my goodness Kara!!! That was the loveliest chicken tale I've heard for a long time! Told through the eyes of a novice chicken 'breeder', it gave me a giggle! And all your many photos of your first chicks reminded me of the frenzy of photo taking with a first born child!! hehe!! <br />I think your sick baby has some sort of new born disease - we've had those sort before too. Sometimes they live, sometimes not but I'm not sure why you had so many eggs being squashed and not hatching. When our kids were little we even hatched a few in an incubator just so they could watch…..Your words are certainly true - the wonder and excitement is certainly remembered much longer than the cost!Evihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15098163128625989839noreply@blogger.com