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    Egg eating broody

    Thank you for your prompt replies: I should have been more specific. During the last six months we have had several episodes during which this hen has gone broody. Each time I have, I believed, broken her, only to find her brooding over a hoard of unfertile eggs again, a few weeks later. It was...
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    Egg eating broody

    I've had an Orpington hen going broody for the past six months and having no rooster anymore, bought a dozen fertilised eggs to put under her. All seemed welll until recently when she's been sitting beside the clutch, not on it. Also we noticed fewer eggs than before. Today when I replaced her...
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