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Is there some reason you are keeping this hen? She likely won't get better with age, and this will happen every time she gets broody. Some hens seem to get broody very often. If she were mine, I wouldn't keep her.

In my book,for the most part broodiness isn't a desirable trait. One or two per flock is likely to be plenty or more than plenty. I have had hens that would lay enough to set and then that was it for egg production. Also, in my situation they would tend to hide a nest and suprise me in the...

I am in agreement with you there. Unless you have ALL pullets or can tell the eggs apart because they are penned separately or a different color, I just call them pullet eggs when they are smaller, sporadic, or some other trait. Once they become full size and stabilize to uniformity, I just...

Just want to say that I have openned eggs out of a broody hen's nest after she walked away with the other chicks. Sometimes there is a chick there peeping, and sometimes "full term" babies that are dead in the egg. She didn't help them out. Though when I did salvage a live one she left she...

The float test I have used is nothing to do with bubbles. It usually seems fairly accurate for testing for life in the last week or so before hatching. I put the egg in a deep pan of warm water so the egg doesn't chill. A good egg should float as there should be a lot of air in the egg. If...

I have had turkeys off and on for years, and also geese. Normally there is no issue, but I don't make pets of them. However, with mean geese (mother in law had some white Chinese that were mean to pretty much everyone), I have found a way to cure almost all of them of the aggression. You do...

An old time remedy to "bugs" on chickens is to put wood ashes in their dust bath area. What ivermectin are you using? Pour on or injectable or oral?