Hi everyone, I have incubated eggs to hatch this Saturday. I also have a broody chicken that will only have been sitting on the nest for 7 days by Saturday. Is there a chance that she might be ready to accept the newborn chicks? If yes, should I put them under her as soon as they're born?
Hi everyone, 6 days until my incubator chicks hatch!!🤗 but now I have another chicken who just started showing broody behavior today (4/13/25). Would it be too soon to introduce the new baby chicks to her on the 20th of this month?😬
Hi everyone, I have a mama chicken whose eggs hatched on March 19th and I have eggs in the incubator that will hatch April 19th. Would it be too late to try to have her adopt them?
Hi 👋 I'm new here and new at raising chickens. I've had my chickens (which hatched from an incubator) for 8 months.
One chicken is broody since 3 days ago and today she accidentally got locked out of her nest for about 4hrs when she got out to stretch😭 She is now back in her nest but are the...