Recent content by StoneHillHens

Well, thanks to the great guidance and advice I received here in BYC, moving Momma went okay! I just kept telling myself that, despite her theatrics, at the end of the day she is still just a 10 pound chicken "who doesn't have teeth." Haha! (...however, being the coward that I am, I still wore...

Awesome! Thank you for the great reply, it's the only time I've heard it articulated as to why busting their broodiness is so necessary. I will look into finding eggs locally but it might take me a day or so and she's already been sitting three... Will that mess her timing up? Also, should I...

In reading about it online; it sounds like you take your hen off her nest (um, good luck…) and put her in a wire, cage off the ground so she can't bed down or nest and gets air flow under her. After a few days you're supposed to let her out, but if she goes straight back to her nest, you toss...

QUESTION: Okay, so we here at Stone Hill are new to the chicken game…and loving every second of it!! Everything has been going swimmingly, however we did recently have a hen (one of our black australorps) go broody. Now, we don't have a rooster, so she can sit on those eggs until the cows...