I made a little pouch by tucking part of my shirt into the top of a pair of granny underwear I had on, I know, sounds really atractive:-). I put the egg in it and kept it warm right there by my tummy button. A couple hours later the hen returned to her nest and I put it back under her. This...
I lived in the hill country on 15 acres that had never been lived on before except by the native americans hundreds of years prior. It had been part of a 3000 acre cattle ranch that the owners subdivided part out. From my front porch you could see about 4 miles to the Blanco river valley. There...
I forgot to say if she was feral she may have mites or chicken lice, you may want to get some chicken dusting powder for her. I don't know if you can do this when she is setting but check her because chicks can get them from mom hen.
If that is a picture of your hen by your name then it looks like the chickens that I had when I lived in San Marcos TX many years ago. They were the best chicken ever, if a stray dog came onto my land they could fly up into the trees and get away from it. I used to empty out an egg and fill it...
I am not an expert either, I guess doing is learning in this case. I have never heard of a hen continuing to set on an empty nest. When I think about the 6 eggs that were laid after she started setting, there is a possibility that several were from another hen getting in there and laying next to...
Thanks for the info, I am going to leave it up to the hen to make the decision. If she is still setting in a couple more days I may candle the eggs again and see if I can tell what is going on.
My hen started setting on 6 eggs the 19th of july. She kept laying and added 6 more eggs, total 12. On August 7th 3 chicks hatched out. She is still setting on the unhatched eggs. The 3 chicks are doing fine. I candled some of the unhatched eggs, they are brown eggs and not real easy to see the...
Hi, here is a picture of my brooder:) This is a really small banty hen, she has made herself into such a big circle! I hope I do the image right, do not really know how to do it. OK I guess I did the image thing right, yeah! Here is a pic of Nugget (my 5 year old grandson named her) we were...