The article was helpful. Just a bit ago I found another of my game hens setting on a nest of seven eggs with one dead chick. I moved her - after getting bitten numerous times - into the rabbit hutch and left her setting quietly on the eggs. Also found my oldest barred rock bantam hen acting...
My problem is a little different. I have a wild game hen that is hatching eggs in a barrel in my shop building. I don't want to take the chicks from her but our weather is very unpredictable, from mid-60s down into the 20s at night. I have a rabbit hutch I could put her in as well as a flat...
My eight hens were producing five to seven eggs a day for the last couple of months until the freeze which they weathered very well with little help from me. I'm really missing those homegrown eggs.
