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Can I sneak newly hatched chicks in with a broody hen?
We decided to leave her be. She has 10 eggs she is sitting on. We marked them so we can tell which are newly laid eggs and which are in gestation. All of the chicks have hatched from the incubator and only 3 made it out of 18. Most were not fertilized. Maybe we need another rooster. (I...- thelmers
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Can I sneak newly hatched chicks in with a broody hen?
I have an incubator with 18 eggs and they are starting to hatch today. We decided to incubate the eggs ourselves so that our hens would continue to lay eggs. As it happens, one of our hens (who ironically is the mother of the eggs we are incubating), went broody two days ago. Instead of...- thelmers
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- broody hen chicks just hatched incubating-hatching-eggs will she accept them
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