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One of my hens has been sitting on some eggs, I know there is at least 2 fertile but the rest I'm pretty sure are not. What do I do with these eggs? Are they still ok to use or just throw them away? She keeps stealing eggs from other...

funny as this sounds, I let her sit on 1 egg last sunday, then monday I gave her another to sit on. And now if I can't get out to the coop and collect the eggs she takes any that another hen layed beside her. LOL So now she has 5 eggs...

TayFray! :I have 2 golden laced wyandotte pullets, about 2 1/2 months old Idk how much I would sell them for or if you would be interested in something this young??not sure I want to travel the hour and a half to the Augusta swap. Thank...

I just candled and have 1 maybe 2 eggs with a bloodline. Yay. Rocky is sitting on 5 eggs.

done, 152 as of 12:45 am Thursday august 4, 2011     

ok thanks a bunch everyone. It's our first time trying to hatch out eggs and we are letting our barred rock hen o the sitting. I figure if she is broody why not put her to work.

I just went out and candled a couple eggs, today would be day 4. I couldn't see anything at all in 1 egg, the shell seems to have speckles all over it making it very hard to see in there. The other egg was a light colored shell, I'm not...

What happened to New Hampshire? I know it was up there or at least I thought it was.

I'm still looking for Golden Laced Wyandottes. And I just had a Barred Rock go broody on me, right now I got her sitting on a some eggs. I think it's time to get my other coop and use it for Rocky (the broody barred rock). I'll put her...

Quote:Originally Posted by annabananaandfamily Need some advice from my fellow Maniacs!I have 4 ee chicks that are 4 weeks old today. I am really anxious to move them out to their coop but I am afraid to rush them out too early....