Your welcome. I'm glad my guess seems correct. I think letting Gold Dust sit on eggs might have been a strain on her, a believe i have been told a sitting hen loses weight? I dont know, my chickens are only 8 weeks old. But i am very happy that Gold Dust is doing well and will soon have a couple...
Try the wooden eggs and if she is broody get her some hatching eggs or maybe get a few chicks and do the night switch under her. Her not sitting long might actually be better for her since she has been through this trauma. If you get a couple chicks, you can always buy a breed you want and just...
A friend once lost her momma cat and kittens to coons. She found their bodies in the morning and thinks the momma tried to protect her kittens when the coons found them. A few months later I trapped an extremely large mean cat. This cat had severely injured my female cat a month after her spay...