So one of my broodies refused to be moved, and hatched ( is still hatching at this moment) eggs in a nest in the coop. The nest only has a low back. Last night I was outside in a driving rain because wind had blown the tarp off a small coop I use as a broody house, where there was a hen and 7...
I do not have very good success moving broody hens to a better place. I do it at night. Is there a time frame in turns of number of days of sitting in which they will accept being moved?
I have a 25% success rate this year at moving broodies and having them brood in the new location. And I am not entirely sure that my two successes have not been the same chicken who hatched chicks Jan 22/23 already starting again. Others I tried to move refused to sit on eggs in the new place...
My old Farm Innovator went crazy and fried my beautiful carefully selected eggs. It read the right temp but it was lying. What should I buy if I can’t afford a Brinsea? Another one just like the one I have looks like the best deal in features for money, but how could I ever trust one again...
Somehow I think I have done this before, but maybe you purge inactive members? Or maybe I read but never joined. I have been keeping chickens since 1986. I knew nothing when I started, I knew no one to ask, and there was no internet. I bought adult hens, whom I now realize were almost...
I have had some wonderful successes and some terrible failures this year. Successes this year mostly due to the broodies. I did hatch 8 in the incubator early from when a hen quit sitting during a spring cold snap. Anyway, this is about my horrible failure. At the same time as I set my...