Re: eggs going cold


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"roseyposey" <rosie.zalduataylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My hopeless cuckoo Maran is currently sitting on some silkie eggs,
trouble
is she has a tendencey to just wander off and leave them to go cold -
or
worse, she just goes and sits elsewhere. Anyway, today (AGAIN) she
left
them to go cold for I don't know how long (last checked her about three
hours earlier). Does anyone have any idea how long they can be left in
that
state before they die ? :-(

If she is not consistantly broody - don't try and make her be a mum
You will always get heartache.
Unfortunately she is consistantly broody - she only laid for about six
weeks
this year, and has been broody ever since. This is the third clutch so
far
this year she has sat on.

Then she will be VERY undercondition - starving.
And if she is getting off she is NOT consistantly broody

BREAK her NOW
give her a chance to get her condition back up to something near normal
before the winter or you WILL lose her

She is SO hungry she is starving.
A bird that is brooding -- even badly -- is eating a minute proportion of
that which her peers are each day
13 weeks of starving herself plus the other weeks of raising young and not
concentrating on herself - I am not surprised she is inconsistant
Add to that the heat stress of this year and, if anyone had such a
measurement, you would probably find she is dehydrated too

Break her and give the next eggs you want to hatch to something else
This little girl is going to be in a BAD way if she is not already


I think I'm going to just take my chances with this lot for this year,

For the sake of this hen
DONT, please

IF you need more birds buy them in
Give this bird a chance to get some condition for the winter


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regards
Jill Bowis

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