Hi Thanks for the advise. We can't always have chicks as we have a limited space, as soon as we have chicks I will try your method.
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thanks for that advise , we will try blocking off the nest box at night and see how that goes. We don't have much space for broody cages and as we love our girls don't like using them anyway. We can only have so many chicks per year, again because of space and work commitments , but I will...
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We have been keeping bantams for 3 years now but this year we are having real problems with broodies, it must be the weather! We pop them in a make do broody pen, which we hate doing and we have also tried false eggs under them, to no avail. I know that this a perfectly natural state for them...
Just joined this morning after finding such help through Backyard Chicken website. One of our bantams died for no reason this morning, a favourite. We have been keeping 8 bantams for three years and it is our first fatality.