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  1. Wynnie

    Hen going broody with fertile eggs only a few months after her first clutch

    I don’t mind letting her hatch them, my birds are fairly self sufficient as my adults are free range, I mostly just check on them and make sure they get fed and watered daily. They nest wherever they please for the most part. She’s a good mama. I was just wanting to know if it was something to...
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    Hen going broody with fertile eggs only a few months after her first clutch

    I don’t mind it at all, I was just wondering if it was something I should be concerned about
  3. Wynnie

    Hen going broody with fertile eggs only a few months after her first clutch

    Hoping this is the right forum, but I have a Buff Orpington hen, she’s about 3 years old, and she had her first batch of babies ever back in April. She disappeared last night and I found her on another nest. At least a few of the eggs in question are fertile, I cracked one open and it had that...
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    Anyone have any experience with egg laying in Orpington crosses?

    If you’ve seen my latest post, you’d know about my Orpington x Polish crosses that just hatched. Does anyone know around how many eggs this cross would produce a year? If not this specific cross, if anyone has experience with any other Orpington cross, it would be greatly appreciated if you told...
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    A couple of the eggs underneath my broody hen look much less developed than the others, but are still moving around and continuously growing.

    Maybe 48 hours at the most? And yes she did for the most part. the last one passed due to her not sitting, I tried to intervene but it was too late. But like I said, I call 9/10 a win.
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    A couple of the eggs underneath my broody hen look much less developed than the others, but are still moving around and continuously growing.

    Posted update just now :)
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    A couple of the eggs underneath my broody hen look much less developed than the others, but are still moving around and continuously growing.

    Update: 9/10 chicks hatched and seem healthy, the 10th unfortunately passed away. I’d call 9/10 a win, however!
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    A couple of the eggs underneath my broody hen look much less developed than the others, but are still moving around and continuously growing.

    They are Orpington/polish crosses :)
  9. Wynnie

    A couple of the eggs underneath my broody hen look much less developed than the others, but are still moving around and continuously growing.

    Update, hatching has begun!
  10. Wynnie

    A couple of the eggs underneath my broody hen look much less developed than the others, but are still moving around and continuously growing.

    Thanks everyone for your input, I appreciate it. I candles the eggs one last time because even the latest developed ones should only be on day 17. They still look healthy and moving. I am going to leave them alone from now on, as I have only been checking them to make sure none had died/none...
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    A couple of the eggs underneath my broody hen look much less developed than the others, but are still moving around and continuously growing.

    I do not own an incubator
  12. Wynnie

    A couple of the eggs underneath my broody hen look much less developed than the others, but are still moving around and continuously growing.

    Probably, I just don’t know what to do to ensure that all of them will hatch.
  13. Wynnie

    A couple of the eggs underneath my broody hen look much less developed than the others, but are still moving around and continuously growing.

    My buff Orpington hen went broody and I was excited to see that her eggs were fertile this time, and I have been candling the eggs every two days. I believe a majority of them are on day 15 or 16. However, when I candled them this morning, I noticed that a couple of them almost seem to be behind...
  14. Wynnie

    Wondering if one of my Barred Rocks is almost ready to lay?

    More eggs!
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    Wondering if one of my Barred Rocks is almost ready to lay?

    UPDATE: We got our first egg!!!!!
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    Wondering if one of my Barred Rocks is almost ready to lay?

    They do have roosting bars, in the form of branches cut to fit, and they don’t seem too keen on using them. I did pick up a few of my hens and place them on them to show them that they can be up there. Our chickens are big on “If I see it, I’ll do it too” and they kind of follow each other’s...
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    Wondering if one of my Barred Rocks is almost ready to lay?

    They try, but I don’t think they do. They like to perch on the edges or on top of them to sleep, but I haven’t actually seen them sleep in any of them.
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    Wondering if one of my Barred Rocks is almost ready to lay?

    We have fake eggs, but I wasn’t quite sure when to put them in. I’ll definitely do that when I get home. Our chickens have been messing up the nests for months now so I don’t know how that translates in relation to egg laying, in our hens’ case anyway. They’re all a little nutty 😂.
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    Wondering if one of my Barred Rocks is almost ready to lay?

    She doesn’t really squat, per say, when I put my hand over her. She maybe does a little bit, but I have seen her dig a divet in the run and squat into that. We have nest boxes in the coop for them that they have access to all parts of the day Does that mean anything?
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    Wondering if one of my Barred Rocks is almost ready to lay?

    That was the quickest reply ever! Thank you for that! I will have to go back out to the coop and see if she does that. How soon should I expect her first egg? Or is there any way to tell?
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