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:sick Thank goodness no!

Me too

We were late getting out to the coop to collect eggs today and the chickens had already roosted. My husband opened the nest box to retrieve the eggs and jumped back in surprise...apparently Lady the white leghorn has been sleeping in the nest box! She’s not broody, just much more comfortable...

Yes! All over the place! We just got her a pair of baby crocs so she can cruise around outside, it’s quite possibly the cutest thing ever :rolleyes:

Indeed!

All 8 hens laid an egg today! :yesss:

Thank you, I will be keeping you all updated. And probably asking a million more questions :p

We are going to wait for Waffles the BO to go broody and get fertile eggs for her to hatch and raise :D

@DonnaSueL Hi! :frow Glad you joined our thread!

How many fertile eggs can one hen sit on?

I’ll definitely keep you all posted! I’m just waiting for Waffles to go broody and then I’m going to try and find someone local who has hatching eggs. There is a ranch across the street from us with lots of hens and roosters (not sure what breeds), horses, cows and a donkey. I need to make...

Okie dokie that makes things easier then. Basically the broody does it all!

Another question! If a broody hen has her own hatch of chicks, will they sleep under her in their nest when they’re really young? Do I need a separate roost area for them when they are older and start to roost at night, or will they just all integrate and figure it out? And also, what do you do...

Ok good to know. Thank you @BlueBaby !

More questions for you all...I’m looking online and it says that having fertile eggs sent through the mail can be very tricky because even one degree of temperature change can cause the eggs to be infertile. I know some of you have had luck with getting a healthy hatch from eggs in the mail. I...

You know me, I’m too big of a softie to cull a chick unless it had a physical problem or something :hitNow if that chick grows up and turns out to be a male, and my husband is willing to put in the effort to process it...well, winner winner chicken dinner!

Yes this is definitely an issue, as we don’t want any roosters and they are difficult to get rid of. My husband said he would send them to freezer camp...he’s never processed a chicken though so it’s one of those “easier said than done” things. What we need to do is invent a breed that can be...

Awesome thank you, I really didn’t want to wait until spring. Now I suppose I will just have to wait for miss Waffles to go broody again. Cora will be ONE next month!:thShe’s 10 months now, her birthday is Oct. 30. I don’t know how this happened haha I feel like time is going by way too fast...

Thank you this is great advice!

Hi everyone! Sorry I’ve been out of the loop lately, I went back to my tutoring job and have been super busy. Hope you’re all doing well! We have started offering Cora lots of solid foods and I’m happy to say that she loves eggs :p Nothing better than fresh eggs for breakfast. Now that we are...