I am sorry to be the "bear of bad news..."
Many of you may remember that one of our hens recently hatched a chick. It was a happy day for our people. Since two of our hens had been sitting for some time on some random eggs, we were happy that one actually hatched. A few had broken open and stunk, but to actually get a chick was amazing.
RIP Steemie
However, Steemie (as we named it) was the only one. Since we could not raise it alone, we left it with the mother. The first night went great, but the second night... not so much.
THE DEATH OF STEEMIE
On the second night, a rotten eggs burst and covered little Steemie. That night, Steemie also died. This lead us to evaluate a few things.
First off, these chickens are first time mothers and are still new at this. Additionally, we have never hatched chicks before either. We do have a game plan moving forward though.
MOVING FORWARD
A few days later, the other hen hatched 2 chicks. Since chicken eggs usually take 21 days to hatch. we moved all the old eggs under the mother with the chicks. That way, if any more hatch from those eggs they can all grow up together with the same mom. We also took a batch of fresh eggs and put them under the other mother. That way, we know that she has about three weeks until her eggs should hatch.
Moving forward we will try to do things this way and get each hen sitting on her own batch of fresh eggs. We will see who hatches around 21 days, and if it gets a few days past, we will remove the old eggs and start again.
Hopefully this will help improve the reproduction of our chicken flock moving forward. Last I knew the two little chicks were still doing good, so we named them "Steemie" and "Steemy." It sure was hard to leave so many young animals for our trip up to Wisconsin, but some neighbor kids are watching over them, and they have some experience with these things.
As always, I'm 
and here's the proof:
proof-of-moving-forward-with-a-better-plan
Until next time…
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