I just purchased some fertilized eggs I want my broody to hatch. I drove about 30 minutes home from where I purchased them. Should I put them under my broody now or wait?
do they need to stabilize after the car ride?
I set up a broody pen. I finally convinced my wife to let me hatch some fertilized eggs under our broody. I re purposed our old rabbit hutch and took the bottom of a planter and put it in with some straw. It's in the main chicken run.
She seemed to take to it. I'm going to see how she...
I pulled my broody off her unfertilized eggs to get some food and a dust bath. It was free range time and my broody started dust-bathing immediately. As soon as her flock-mates saw her from across the yard they all sprinted and starting bathing with her. The amber colored chicken is the broody
I'm not sure if my Hen is broody or not. Over the last two days she's been spending most of the morning in the nest and on the eggs. But around 2pm ish she gets off the nest and doesn't' return. When she is sitting on the nest she is pretty flat and she will peck my hand when I tried to move her...
I have a chicken who I'm pretty sure is broody. I want to see if she still for a few days. If she still is where can I get some fertilized eggs? Can I get them overnight shipped from somewhere? I would like some purebred breeds.
I would love to have a broody hen. Does a rooster improve the odds of a hen going broody? Someone at a farmers market said something about the hormones released during mating encourages broodiness
I want to plant a vine to grow up the fence around our coop to serve a few purposes: 1. Provide shade for the flock in summer 2. Provide a natural food source 3. To block a little of the noise. I was thinking maybe raseberry, hops, maybe. Any thoughts?
Our cochin looks like a rooster and we saw her mounting one of our rhode island reds. It isn't crowing and has not shown any signs of aggression. Its actually the most tame and lets us pick it up. I couldn't find the male leg nails that i read roosters have