I like this idea. I have an automatic door set to open of an afternoon. My dog is a 14 month old australian cattle dog who has started sneaking eat to scavenge the scraps, and now she is eating the eggs. I will try the mustard trick, but she has an exceptional nose. Putting the door up higher...
My first hen hatched 3 chicks. I would say they were a day old before I became aware of them. I took the remaining two eggs ( which were placed under the first hen 2 days after the first 3) and placed under the other broody hen. I was beginning to think I’d made the wrong decision and then this...
I have a mixture of hens, and a Vorwerk rooster. Recently I bought two bantams. One turned clucky a few weeks ago, so I collect eggs from the vorwerk hen to put under her. I only have the one corwerk, and don’t want cross breds, so it took a few days to get 5 eggs for the broody hen. About a...
