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The only thing I've tried that has ever worked to break a broody hen is to separate her from the flock, provide her with an attractive nesting box with eggs that I would really like her to hatch, and then wait for her to get on and do her thing. She becomes immediately and persistently unbroody...

Haha, I did that once or twice in desperation, and it only made the rooster more eager to come back and exact vengeance.

Oh, okay. Well thanks for your help.

Oh, for the first 17 days the humidity is 30-35%; it never goes above 35%.

Yes, I check the humidity constantly, and it is usually 60-70% during lockdown, but it goes up to 80% (or sometimes higher, occasionally it goes to 100%) when the chicks start to hatch. I have posted concerns about the high humidity before, but people said it was normal for it to spike like...

I have checked it several times throughout my hatches with two thermometers, but it is always at 100 degrees on the dot. It's a forced air incubator.

I have a Genesis 1588 Hovabator, and it has one 1/2" vent hole on the ceiling, and a couple of pencil-width holes around the perimeter of the incubator's floor. I have done 24 hatches and, in every single one, the chicks are panting and I always end up with 20-40% chicks that died in the shell...

I think you're correct. The gold-laced and blue are roosters, and the black one is a pullet.

My first rooster was the very picture of amiability until I gave him his first hen, after which things went rapidly south and my family and I found ourselves viciously assaulted whenever we made an appearance. I was crushed, since he was my very first chicken; I adored him, and he followed me...

The ongoing war over that "perfect" nesting box is always so entertaining -- I love this thread! Here are two of my frizzles brooding the same batch of eggs in a TINY box. I'm amazed they can stand sitting so close to one another, since the mother on the left is at the top of the pecking order...

Oh, I see...I thought it was just through bird contact. I am trying not to panic, but I have a large flock and a chick-selling business, and I do not relish the idea of culling them all (as the coryza threads I've read have suggested). So I am going to try to get the afflicted bird tested, and...

My chicken flock and the quail are about 100 meters apart, and I wash my hands before going up to the chickens, so do you think it will still have spread to them?

Thanks for the advice. I have one question, though: if he overcomes the disease, will he be a carrier? Do you think it would be better to cull?

I have a 5-week-old Japanese quail rooster whose right eye is irritated and swollen (not sealed shut, but he keeps it shut), whose tissue around the left eye is puffy, and whose sinuses are bulging. What might he be suffering from? He is in with two other roosters and three hens, but I don't...