Do you sing to your incubating eggs?

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Do you sing to your incubating eggs?

Post by Jaye » Sat Aug 20, 2016 1:20 pm

I have talked to my broody hen when she's setting on eggs or brooding chicks. She's pretty non-communicative when she's setting and a miserable old wench when she's brooding though, so the conversations don't last long.
Slightly off-topic question, sorry to highjack, but is it too late in the year to give a broody hen some eggs to hatch out?
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Post by ross » Sat Aug 20, 2016 4:10 pm

I've had a Wyandotte banty hatch & raise 6-10 in middle of Dec last 2 yrs plus 2 batches in summer .Running loose in barn bedding no heat at all just gets corn mixed in pellets . Luck
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Post by baronrenfrew » Sat Aug 20, 2016 5:52 pm

yep, I had a hen show up with a brood at Halloween.
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Post by Killerbunny » Sat Aug 20, 2016 6:57 pm

Had some hatch mid September one year!
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Post by Jaye » Sat Aug 20, 2016 7:54 pm

:chicken-hatching: Thanks, you big bunch of enablers.
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Do you sing to your incubating eggs?

Post by Poultryprincess » Sat Aug 20, 2016 8:48 pm

I'm kinda afraid to answer the question!
When the incubator is going, I "DO" talk to them.

I always hear the hen cluck to the unhatched eggs.
I figured it would be soothing to them once they hatched.
Can't say I noticed the day old chicks being swayed by my clucking.
But I do it anyway...hmmm thinking "crazy chicken lady" is a fitting name after all!!! (*o*)
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Post by windwalkingwolf » Sat Aug 20, 2016 11:27 pm

Sometimes if there's an early (or an only) one or a late one trying to hatch, they will call out in distress. I make happy peep noises attthem and it seems to reassure them that they're not alone, and they quiet and get back to work pipping. Other than that, I don't talk or sing to the eggs : D
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Post by Killerbunny » Sun Aug 21, 2016 6:18 am

My thoughts are that the world has been through massive cooling and heating changes before and I don't see why something shouldn't be programmed into the genetic code to deal with that.
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