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Hi everyone, thought I'd share my experience. I asked advice a long while back as my two hens had started brooding and I didn't know what to do. This was my question: "Hi everyone, I'm new to looking after hens. I have three - one ex-battery hen (feather) and two smaller Pekin hens. I've had...

Thanks for the advice :) Yes, they are in there all day and night just sitting together on the 'borrowed' eggs of our other hen. I don't have a dog crate or big cage, so maybe I'll just lock them out of the nesting box for a few days and see how that goes. We don't have a rooster - so no chicks...

Thanks for the reply - do you have any idea how long it will last? I don't have any fertilised eggs to give them and I'm not breeding chickens...I am keeping them just for our family's own egg-eating.

Hi everyone, I'm new to looking after hens. I have three - one ex-battery hen (feather) and two smaller Pekin hens. I've had the little ones for about 3 months and for the last 3 weeks they have been holed up in their nest box refusing to move. I've looked through the threads here and now...