emmastar Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Ok so a few weeks ago my evie went broody for the first time she ended up in the cube nest box on 4 eggs so i let her sit and set up the nest box from the others , Things looked to be going well evie in the cube and the girls laying in the new nest box until ........jelly my forever broody pekin joined evie by now she had been say for over a week and with jelly in there the eggs would be snatched from one to the other on breaks bonus ......so so i thought, ! next day bean jellys sister and partner in crime also in the cube enest box now things are getting a little cramped evie is monsterous and with 2 pekins things needed to change , I set up 2 crates for them ,jelly and bean happley brood together and evie just fits in a large create , Lift the hormonal ladies out and 14 eggs !i have no idea who is sneking in the next box ontop of the 3 girls and laying but there is an increase in eggs in there so then i had the problem of delayed hatching not wanting to stress candled the eggs and put the most developed with evie and the rest with the girls in the other box , today there is 2 chicks but somehow they have all swaped and bean who is super mum has taken the chicks , Tonight been out to take jelly out and put her with evie with the remaining eggs . Now im not sure what to do i have a nice area for bean and the 2 chicks , im going to make a section and give evie the eggs that are nearley ready to hatch as shes been way to long and leave jelly with the rest as shes a relentless broody but a rubbish mum hopefully as chicks hatch from her i can sneak them in with bean or evie The chicks are a very strange mix of babu d uccle x frizzle pekin/japanes or silkie , or another uccle the 2 chicks that have hatched are jelly and beans babies with my doodle (who will be going to live with my friend soon who wants to increase her flock of 3 with him and do ) I will take pics tomorow , sorry for the long post what started of so simple will end with fensing and more structures up in my garden no doubt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Gosh things sound very complicated in the broody boxes Looking forward to seeing some pictures. Chrissie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan08 Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I lost track totally about half way through But GOOD LUCK with them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
