I have 17 chickens and their names are listed below (my kids helped name them).
Thweedna
Claudia
Scarlett Johansson
Zoe
Phoebe
Harriet
Golden Eagle
Copper Hawk (aka Fuzzy Face)
Silver Falcon
Daisy
Frost
Beauty
Sunny (or Dilorise - we can't decide)
Ginger
Sarah
Gloria
Stormy
My broody hen has been sitting on her (hopefully fertilized) egg for 25 days. I have been very concerned that there is not a chick growing inside, so I just did the water-float test. The egg dropped to the bottom of my container like a rock. Does this mean that the egg is bad?
Thanks!!!
My Buff Orpington hen went broody several weeks ago. I gave her 6 fertile eggs to sit on, and there is only one left. Today is day 23 of incubation, and I am getting worried that the chick won't hatch - I have candled the egg and I know that there is a growing chick inside, so I don't know why...
My Buff Orpingon hen went broody about 5 weeks ago. We do not have a rooster in our flock, so I purchased 6 fertile eggs and placed them under her June 25 (this is my first time letting a hen incubate her own eggs). Now, there is only one egg remaining (the other hens from the flock have...