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All 9 eggs were fertile and i think she hatched out 8 of them, i say i think because i saw only one of the eggs abandoned but i only saw 7 chicks so either she swallowed one whole or it hatched and managed to escape out of the small openings in the cage and possibly got eaten by a...
Thanks for sharing your (and your friends) experience. I've read about broody hatched hens becoming a better broody than incubator ones, not sure if there is any truth in it though.
My hen seems to be getting more in to a trance as they days pass, the 1st couple days she would get up a few...
I dimmed her room by about 70%, put a few supermarket eggs in there and took her off layers and gave her some corn, she went broody after trying all of the above.
Sorry i should have mentioned she's the only hen and really the only chicken i have with me right now so unless there's a chicken...
I managed to make my shamo hen broody a few days ago, i placed 7 eggs under her and shes been very determined ever since. This is the 1st time she will be hatching eggs so she is a beginner although she was hatched by a hen herself, not an incubator.
Anyway for the past 2 days she's laid an...