clutch

So Polly is broody right now, it’s her first time ever going broody and so far we’ve managed to get her out of the shed every day to clean herself and eat and drink which is great! (Also from a previous thread, turns out her preen gland is totally fine thankfully and her bad feathers are...

Hello, About a week ago, one of my Bobwhite quail started laying eggs again. I had taken two eggs from her nest. She stopped laying and destroyed her nest. So, I gave them back to her. She literally sang a song when she noticed they were back!! I almost cried! LOL! Since then, she has laid 1...

Rarest color mix I have from my newest clutch

I have a Peahen that adopted my flock in the later part of last year. She free ranges during the day but roosts with my hens at night. She laid 6 eggs in March/April and then laid another 4 in May. I assumed from my research she would be done. Last night she laid another in the coop. Is this...

Hey all! So this is my first year owning a rooster, and I know I have a ways off before I’ll start seeing any baby chicks around, however I would love if someone could explain the process? So my silly question is, when a roo mates with a hen, does the hen lay all fertilized eggs at once? Or 1...

Hello! So this morning has been a very strange sequence of events. Lot of weird stuff with how my birds got off their roost, our RIR laid an egg up high and kicked it down (not breaking it to my surprise), etc. After I let everyone out, our RIR went and laid down in an old playhouse we wanted to...

Hi After a chicken mated when will she start laying and making a clutch? My chickens are free range and they lay and hatch babies wherever they seem fit. In the bush, in the roof of my house, even inside our house. But my hens I raised from chicks I saw one them mate with one the roosters in...

I have a hen that's been sitting for three weeks apparently about 3 days ago another hen went broody and now they are sitting on top of each other on top of the eggs. Today is hatch day but I dont know if any will hatch. I saw a broken egg shell just now so I'm assuming one had hatched but I...

I recently discovered this very large clutch underneath the chickens new coop. I had declined production over the winter (which i expected), but it didnt really pick up again when it started having longer days. Eventually i found this. 70+ eggs all sitting under the coop from probably 3...

I have two broodies, a black australorp and a black copper marans, both on eggs due to hatch 4 days apart (in 4 and in 8 days). I hadn't realized until yesterday that despite giving her only a few eggs, the second now has 17 in her nest! No wonder my egg count has dropped so much. Frequently...

Hi All, I have a clutch of eggs hidden in my garden added to by 2 hens. Neither seem to sit longer than to lay their egg each day. At what point do I assume they are not going to sit and dispose of the eggs? I was hoping 1 was going to go broody and have our first chicks. Do I give up yet...

so I haven't quite found a topic like what I'm looking for. My duck is laying eggs. She is on day 8 but yesterday all of the eggs were eaten. This morning she laid another egg in the same nest and I would like to save it since predators now know where the nest is. My question is, since she is...

Hello :) Okay so I've looked through various different threads but couldn't find any specific answers that satisfied my questions on Call ducks. I have a drake, Jem and a hen, Myrtle, and she has laid and is 10 days into sitting on her first clutch. I'd be ever so grateful if someone on here...

We let our hen hatch her first clutch of 6 eggs naturally. The babies (only two survived) will be 5 weeks on Thursday of this week. My hen, Bonnie, has been laying eggs for 2-3 weeks now, we were waiting for her to sit on her second clutch. She has 14 eggs! she keeps turning them, but will not...

I have 3 hens and 2 roosters. Small coop for roositng only. They have a large pen and we also have 40 acres but they haven't ventured far. Other than a huge cedar tree they enjoy dust bathing under, they stay pretty close to the house or workshop. Don't know if any of that was necessary but...

I have a flock of 5 to 7 month old pullets. THey are Black Copper Marans and Speckled Sussex. They are all cooped at night, but I'm very lucky to somehow be getting away with free-ranging by day while we are finishing the coop run (several months in the going, because, ugh, life). Question...