Thank you for your responses, we have separated her from the others with food, water and her nest box, we'll make a more permanent and larger separation area later today. She's only sitting on one egg so I might give her a couple more if she's still sitting, she was off the nest when I went to...
We retired to France 3 years ago, there was a ready made run and henhouse on the property so it seemed rude not to have hens. We have 13 hens and a cockerel. The girls are a mixed bunch, some pure Brahmas, Brahma crosses, and a couple of Marans, the cockerel was saved from the pot and is the...
We have a broody Brahma, she started sitting yesterday. When we went to shut the hens up she's still sitting but has obviously been really badly pecked in the last couple of hours and the back of her neck is bleeding. I'll get some spray on her neck and and then separate her tomorrow. Have they...
