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You could also try putting in potted plants for a week at a time, bring them out for recovery and switch some new ones in. I did this for my first year chicken coop. If you plant things you will have to cover them up to protect from digging and dust bathing.

Most of my chickens are free run and there is enough of everything for them sample - but not destroy. Occasionally I have to keep some in a run that now has very little left growing in it. I'd like to plant some plants that do well with the excess nitrogen and are not so tasty to the chickens...

25 days, it is all over. The eggs were only about 1/3 developed when I broke them to check. I gave my hen back some golf balls to sit on instead of the dead eggs. If I can find some day-olds maybe I will try her with them. Otherwise it is time for some new hens for the poor lonely rooster. He...

I think I'll just have to wait. Not much point in candeling because I don't know what I'm looking for and I only have the 2 eggs. Also, the hen doesn't really like me right now! I swear I felt a little tap from inside one of the eggs... maybe tomorrow. It has helped me to be able to read...

No, I havn't candled the eggs.

My hen went boordy so I got some fertilized eggs for her to sit on. It is day 22 now and they are looking the same as day 1. I really thought yesterday they would hatch, I'm getting kind of sad now. Any words of advice out there? New at Chickens.

Turns out I got the due date wrong for the hatching.... not due until the 24 July. I thought that I had obtained pre-incubated eggs. The trick now is if henny-penny will sit another 2 weeks. She was sitting on her nest for awhile before with with no eggs and then with 3 golf balls that I gave...

My hen is sitting on 6 eggs and they are ready to hatch any day now.... can she do it on her own? Can I leave the chicklets with her? Will the rooster give the babies a hard time? Are roosters good fathers? I am a worried new chicken mom.