Recent content by Linda Stumph

Thank you for your reply. The first time our hen went broody we let her hatch and raise her babies because everything went fine and she gave us a hen and a rooster. This time we were expecting the same thing, but it didn't work out that way and so we tried to hatch the eggs ourselves. We do...

Hello, Well, a new mystery this morning with the same bantum hen that lost one of her chicks. We moved her and her eggs yesterday after having another hen in the coop do something to the new born chick. Now she has 4 eggs left. Last night and this morning she was not laying on her eggs. We...

When my bantum hatched the first egg she still had 4 more to hatch. We left her in the coop with the other chickens and kept checking on her. Towards evening when we checked, we couldn't find the chick anywhere, but there was a full size egg that had been layed in her nest. We removed it from...

Thank you so much. When she went broody the first time about 6 months ago, she maintained all her feathers and that is why I thought something must be wrong. I am so relieved. I have another question. When she hatched the first egg she still had 4 more to hatch. We left her in the coop...

Hello and Happy Thanksgiving! My broody bantum hen has lost all her underneath feathers in the process of hatching eggs. She hatched one yesterday and has 4 more she is laying on. When we checked her last night we picked her up to see if anymore eggs had hatched and noticed all the feathers...

Do you suggest putting them in at night as I have read in some publications? Also, the babies are so small and my flock is large and very active. I'm afraid they might get knocked around too much. What do you think? Should I put the hen in without her babies? Thank you for your advice...