At the risk of some one stealing my pic, I am still posting it here. I said some time back i was so happy with my new cock I got from John Blehm and the color he throws. Unfortunately I have been very busy and could not show you what I meant by that. Full color tails, just as I believe they...
I like to try and "hover" nearby but outside of the taped off area to listen to the judge(s) as they go through the rows. It's hard to find out why certain birds placed higher or lower than our less experienced eye and even harder to get to a judge afterwards to ask. This way you can learn...
After struggling to improve this for a few years with slow results i finally found the fix. I brought in a new cock. Wheaton with perfectly clean hackles, solid black muff and a deep black color (but strangely no beetling on the black). He throws color like nothing I've ever seen. Solid tail...
1) Looks like you are setting yourself up for lots of stooping - make it higher so you can get in easier.
2) Plan extensions on the eaves, especially on the short end. That will keep the area as a exterior protection area for shade and hawks.
3)Assuming you have a man door on the "Long End"...
No Darling I have no idea but wil be watching to see what other experts may say. I would have done the same as you did. You gave it a valiant effort. I'm sure she appreciated you loving help.
It all depends on the cock.
I say that from experience. I've had them known-people passive and stranger-people aggressive; my dog passive and coyote aggressive (although they never got the opportunity to fight them without a fence between the two); and the worst in my opnion, tough on the girls...
They can take a break from hatching for almost 24 hours.Is there any movement at all? If you choose to intervene, be careful, only break the shell, not the membrane more than a little spot, if it is not already broken, for air, and keep it moist in the incubator. If you see small red blood...
I've never had a good outcome letting chicks, not hatched by a hen, to integrate. They need to grow up and be separated by small holed fencing. Wehn you get to the point where the little ones learn that they HAVE to run from the big ones, you can allow them supervised play with a hiding place...
It could just be that when you separated her, she became very low on the pecking order and uses the nesting box to hide from those farther up on the pecking order. The nest box may be hot to her but secure and safe feeling.