She would have been two and a half weeks into her broody cycle, or just about that, i keep it calendered, but I have to look for the exact date. That's why I offered the chick to her, and not one of our other broodies who are not so far along. She has never gone broody before ever, and we have...
So we've had chickens for the past 17 years. I've never seen a year like this one. We've had twelve hens go broody in the past eight weeks. This is extremely unusual! So they've been almost all successful hatches. Three of those have been old hens (6 years old, 5 1/2 years old, and 9 years old...