Yes, she's not sitting on any, she's just going to raise the chicks when they hatch. I usually buy chicks from tractor supply and last month I started incubating eggs, so this is my first time having a broody hen and chicks hatching under her.
As I said before she had 25 eggs under her and...
Some eggs weren't fertilized so we did a test to see if they were still good to eat. 10 looked like they were about to hatch so I gave them back to Humble. Is 10 too much? I put 16, including the one with no air sac, in the incubator. The picture I uploaded to this forum is the 10 eggs she's...
Humble went broody last month and a baby hatched! She was sitting on 25 eggs and I candled them today. 10 of them looked ready to hatch so I gave them back to her, and I put a couple in the incubator. One of them looked odd though. There is no air sac and I wanted to know if any development is...
I bought an incubator last month on the 8th. One of my hens, Humble, went broody during that week. Humble is currently sitting on 25 eggs. Last week, I found a broken egg, I inspected it, and saw some development. She's been sitting on some eggs since May 9th and also new eggs. So it's old eggs...
There were some moments when they huddled and when they spaced out. But I did start with just the game bird feed and they didn't eat it. As I said, they ate some of the spinach and tasted the feed by itself but didn't want it.
You have. One of the three that was weak died, 2 are still with us. One is folded over (some of them were like that, like they don't have control of their head/neck) and the other is moving around a lot, what a strong one.