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There's is a broody pen the young man is working on in the poster, can be made from scrap wood, place a clutch of eggs and a hen inside, it forces them to sit on the eggs till hatched, feed and water daily. Make as many cages as you want for multiple hatches/birds/sizes.

Avian Reproduction: Clutch Size, Incubation, & Hatching http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/avianreproduction2.html

More information on clutches for the uninformed... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_incubation http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Incubation_Time.html http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/400-499/nb456.htm

My Royal Palms....

I hear that wood ashes work against mites/lice. I dump a pile in my chicken run once and awhile for them to dust themselves in.

perchie.girl : Fred's Hens : No trick. However, most hens do lay by noon, with the stragglers laying later. If a hen doesn't "learn" to lay in the box, she's gonna get probation and not be allowed outside. If she does it again, she'd be culled. I've not had such a failure in many, many...

Quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_%28eggs%29 I've read it other places also, it's the nature of the bird (some breeds more than others), would'nt be many chickens if they went broody for one egg. I just read that wiki page, it does not say what you said it says. It's true for all...

Quote: Seriously? I have a hen sitting on an empty nest right now. Everyday I toss her, none too gently, trying to break her broodiness. I'm considering filling a tub of water so that she can start getting daily dunkings. If I didn't have more eggs than I needed right now I would. I was...

Quote: Seriously? I have a hen sitting on an empty nest right now. Everyday I toss her, none too gently, trying to break her broodiness. I'm considering filling a tub of water so that she can start getting daily dunkings. If I didn't have more eggs than I needed right now I would. I was...

Quote: Is this a fact ? what reference book/source ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_%28eggs%29 I've read it other places also, it's the nature of the bird (some breeds more than others), would'nt be many chickens if they went broody for one egg.

Hens won't set (get broody) till there is a clutch of eggs, usually a dozen.

1. I like the round hanging feeders, i use some vintage galvanized ones, they have a smaller footprint and still provides 360° of trough. 2. Hanging 5 gal buckets with nipple waterers, best idea ever, keeping a backup heater for this winter. 3. Stake down the dog kennel brooding pen, lost a...

I'm working on a project for next summer, i have a bug zapper i got from a garage sale i'm planning on removing the bottom so the bugs fall out when they get zapped and hanging it in my chicken run this summer.

I use an old refridgerator to store my feed in, it's waterproof and critter proof, old chest freezers work great too.

most birds need a dozen eggs, a clutch, before they will sit on them.

I caught a opposum in an empty 5 gal plastic bucket, he crawled in to investigate an empty cat food can and couldnt climb out.