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Update on my broody hens. A few days after I first posted, a snake got in the brooder pen where I had the broody hens set and ate all six eggs that one of the hens was on. I found her the next morning pacing the pen and all of her eggs gone. So, I reset her on some eggs. About a week later...

Luckily I made plenty of nest boxes, all movable, and I can't bring myself to "waste" a good broody. So, they've all been moved to their own pens with a clutch of eggs each. What really stinks is I was getting 16-18 eggs a day from 20 hens for the last couple of weeks, and today I only got 10...

Three of my twenty hens have gone broody in the last 12 days. Guess it's catching...

If you're wanting a relatively bloodless, non-disfiguring method, a .22 to the head probably isn't the way to go. Sorry you have to deal with this.

Hi all, My wife and I have been reading and learning for over a year, so I figured we may as well officially join the club. A brief history of our chicken experience: A good friend of mine had to rehome a rooster, so he "dropped him off" at my new home in the country, which happens to be on...