Our broody bantam sat lovely in her 6 fertile buff eggs we got for 24 hours but then she got off and looked very poorly. We realised the old coop we had put her in had mites. We treated her and put her and eggs in a fresh coop and she sat again 24 hours later. She has not left them since except...
I have a bantam who has been broody for ages. We got her 6 fertile buff eggs and she sat happily for 24 hours. She came off then and looked poorly and we found the old coop we had out her in had mites. We treated her and moved the eggs and her to a fish coop and after 24 hours she began sitting...
We have a broody bantam who has been broody for weeks so, trying to be kind, we got her 6 buff Orpington fertile eggs and set them under her using an old coop recently vacated by some cockerels we have sold. She sat happily for 24 hours then found her off the nest looking poorly. Discovered the...