Several of my buffs can be very protective of their eggs, but up here in the north country i certainly don't want them to go broody for at least three months. How will I know which ones to leave on their nests and which ones to keep removing the eggs from when the time comes?
We have seriously long daylight hours where I live, and they are only getting longer. I love our beautiful summer evenings but it's creating a problem! Our chickens do to! Yesterday we tried to bribe them into their coop with scraps of a hot dog bun but only about half of them were coaxed to go...
Does anyone else enjoy 'clucking' to their chickens then watch them 'fly' across the yard to see what kind of treat you have for them? Yesterday I had a tasty passel of garden worms (please don't gag) and the first chicken wasn't sure about that, but another one quickly snatched it out from...
I have a couple hens that have had a strong inclination to be broody in the past, so we made a special broody house for them, a rooster and a few of their pals. The eggs are, or should be all fertilized, but neither hen shows any inclination to sit on them. I have about a dozen eggs waiting for...