Hello,
This is our first time with a broody hen (I normally incubate and raise chicks in a brooder). So, she did just ok, 2 hatched yesterday and seem ok, one pipped and never hatched and one hatched and was dead under her.
I cleared out as much yucky stuff as I could without disturbing mom...
Hello,
I don’t post often but love the great information on this board!
Hubby and I are going out of town next week for our son’s wedding and we are finishing up a big coop for our adult chickens, and repurposing our old coop for our 4 week old chicks.
The old coop/now brooder is solid, not...
Hello, this is my first post, but I have read this forum often in my 15 years of raising barred rocks. I just hatched 6 chicks (with my trusty old hovabator- it is pretty beat up but always does a great job, 99-100% hatch rate- or could be I have lucked out with breeding lines, who knows)...