I’m kind of scared to put the baby in there with her again. I do have another hen that start growling over her eggs today, so I might have another broody. Maybe I’ll buy another chick and try giving both to that hen. If it doesn’t work out with her, at least I’ll have 2 together in the brooder.
Our broody hen has been sitting on a handful of eggs for a few weeks, but only one developed. We wanted to give her a few chicks to raise, so we left the developed egg, knowing it would hatch any time, and replaced the others with day old chicks from the feed store. We slipped them under her 2...
Hello, new here! We’ve had chickens for about a year now. We have 6 hens, 1 rooster, and 6 new chicks. They’re a variety of Easter eggers, olive egger, cream legbars, Orpington, polish, silkie, barred rock, marans, and salmon faverole. Still feel like I’m pretty new at this, so hoping to connect...
