Excellent post.
You have covered everything that is needed to raise a happy chick and brooder hen...that is apart from the little problem I have at the moment.
One hen went broody and after a week of her pinching her sister's eggs to sit on with her own (unfertile), I purchased a couple of fertile eggs and swapped them over. She has now been sitting on the fertile eggs for 25 days. 1 egg disappeared last weekend and with no trace of it we believe it was eaten by her sister. The second egg she is still sitting on and refuses to move. Obviously the egg isnt going to hatch but do I leave it for her to decide and walk away or do I remove the egg?
You have covered everything that is needed to raise a happy chick and brooder hen...that is apart from the little problem I have at the moment.
One hen went broody and after a week of her pinching her sister's eggs to sit on with her own (unfertile), I purchased a couple of fertile eggs and swapped them over. She has now been sitting on the fertile eggs for 25 days. 1 egg disappeared last weekend and with no trace of it we believe it was eaten by her sister. The second egg she is still sitting on and refuses to move. Obviously the egg isnt going to hatch but do I leave it for her to decide and walk away or do I remove the egg?
