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Here is one way to move a broody with eggs that has worked for me: Give her a couple of days with eggs and provide a different nest box if desired for the other girls After a few days with the eggs prepare a dog crate with a door for the broody: Food water and nesting material At dusk...

Sometimes you have to make a choice between two less than perfect situations. I have heard that yolky eggs should be cleaned exactly as you described so I think you made the right call. Mildly poopy eggs I would probably just give her but if they were filthy they could be a bacterial breeding...

Teila don't worry we will have have times where we wont be able to be here so much. My time is coming up as school is starting, For your sake I hope work mellows out but we will all be here when you can post more thoroughly. Everyone....do you have any thoghts on this bird. I was sure it...

I will happily send you hatching eggs when I get my girls Farm life...I get all wistful sometimes about living like I grew up but your story exhausted me. You are a better woman than I am, Liz I love the description of Jan. My Rosie had a lovely beard but it has been plucked but the other...

Thanks liz! It is good that you aren't giving up on Jan. My colored egg layers are the most fickle egg layers...they take days off for heat and for cold and for moulting and in protest of whatever. Glad your girls are figuring out the co brooding. It will make both of their lives easier...

How exciting!!! Yes I have had girls lay w/o me ever seeing them do any of the..."I am getting ready to lay an egg" follderol. Then there are those like my Petunia who is like Goldilocks looking for the spot that is "just right" all the while telling us all that she is planning very soon...

My thought is to wait until day 5 candle and discard any clears at that point. There are usually some that aren't viable and it is easy to tell on day 5. Non fertiles will have no veins fertiles will have a spidery looking embryo started inside.. my candler is a small but very bright...

This is totally NOT chicken related but I wanted to tell you guys that I spent weekend before last with a girlfriend who has great style. I have always loved hand me downs and do the majority of my clothes shopping at TJ Maxx which is where dept stores send their things after a couple of...

3 to 1 that IS giving me a run for my money! Especially since I think I went 3 for 3, all pullets with one clutch. Those are handsome boys with some serious combs!! Pretty birds! Well hey there stranger! Great that you are once again in the land of the broody. So happy that your...

Hey peeps I am woefully behind and I don't have the time to catch up. I did catch Marie mentioning that Penny seems to be killing her chicks. I am sorry. There is an article on broodies on the Chicken Chick blog and she discusses the homicidal ones. Odd that she would not bother grafted...

I hope so! Norma finished with her hatch! she has 6/6 so what that means is that she is 14/14 for the year! Broody mamas all the way!!!!!!

Yikes you all are prolific! I am just popping in to give you a little update. We are just back from vacation and I have loads to do before going on a girls weekend to the Napa Valley on Friday Norma has hatched 5/6 so far. They are due today. #6 is zipping. I came home to 4 chicks...

It NEVER gets old but the first one ever is special! congrats and best of luck to you. Oh and yes. They can hear the chcicks in there and feel the movement. They get to know the babies in those last few days. It is why if you can isolate a broody who has had chicks grafted for a few days...

They remain crazy up to three weeks or more after the hatch. Even bottom of the pecking order little Julie Taylor who in all honesty is a bit of a sham as a mommy is still a fierce protector. She is on week two with babies. She gives them to Gracie Belle to sit on at night and is not...

There is Nowhere on the planet with a better climate than San Diego...just sayin

With 16 of them that does sound like a good plan! We are so warm that I put 3 week olds outside earlier this week sans any heat source and they are doing just dandy. I think we baby brooder chicks far more than is neccessary...myself included...I was really nervous about putting the 3 week...

Darling!!! Thanks for sharing. Do you need the lamp? I hope that doesn't come off as know it all ish but I was just curious. For me one of the joys of having a broody is no lamp needed.

@Sonya9 Just my personal experience but my incubator hatch rate is 5/36 and it is 41/ 53ish for chicks hatched on this property in the last year using broodies. My thought in addition to this is that if you leave it to nature you will have fewer issues than if you have humans mucking around...

Thanks but I actually hope the little dark one is a cockerel I would be super happy to have a pair of the Konzas and have the two Pita Pintas be pullets but mostly I am hoping that I have one of each with the Konzas. The graft went well she is clucking away and they are wandering about her nest...

Yes do it when it is VERY dark and w/o flashlights as much as possible. Isolate them to the degree most possible so the babies will learn her voice. I isolated for 2 day sand it went great going to do the same with these new little ones. Good Luck!!!!