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how can you tell if the egg is fat-end up?
she has not gotten off the nest at all since one pm yesterday so I took her off this morning and gave her plain yogurt and showed her the food and water and now she is eating and drinking. I shall see if she returns to the nest soon. She did not...
So I get home tonight and he is STILL on the nest!
Good news though! I called my friend that has chickens and a rooster. She said she is getting fertilized eggs. She has four different breeds she wants more chickens. So Sunday she is giving me her daily egg ration, which is a total of 6 eggs...
Oh boy! That's a handful!
Well I saw that she finally laid as egg so I thought that was the issue maybe this egg was harder to get out but once again I removed her and took the eggs out she went right back into the nest. She has all the signs but she did lay an egg, so I don't think she is...
oh and I have fake eggs in the nest, should I move them out and see if that breaks her of sitting? I took them out after I felt the girls knew where to put their eggs, but one laid an egg in the run after I removed the eggs so I put them back.
She was sleeping in the nest last night and I caught her doing this three times last week! She might be doing it every night I am not sure. I just tried to move her again right now, because she went straight back to the nest, boy! She was a faverolle that looked like a frizzle, I did not know...
I have a hen named chicka Bon Bon. She is sweet and docile salmon faverolle. She has been siting for long periods on the nest. She will start to sit around 8 and it was already 1:38 pm and she was still there! I picked her up (boy was she ******) and held and let her for a min to calm her down...