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LOL I have a butterfly net but they get so far back that you can't even see them under there. It is very low at one side an not very high at the other side. We blocked off the sides and back where the run is but my husband didn't block the front. Before her babies hatched, they used the higher...

Apparently, that is just what my hen has decided to do. It is crowded in our coop right now so I guess I can't blame her but she goes so far back under the coop there is no possibility of us catching the chicks without hurting them. I am just praying that no new predators show up.

Well, she took the chicks out of the coop today and we can't find her or the babies. I sure hope they are safe. Everyone else is in there. I wanted to put 2 more babies under her tonight.

Well, I lost count but I think she's going to have to move when she leaves the nest, I think I put 10 chicks under her and she already had one. I still have 3 in the incubator that the membrane stuck to. I am afraid to take them out there, afraid she might peck them trying to get it off. I also...

How do you keep it so clean?

I have put 4 under her today, during daylight and all she has done is to look at them and lightly peck at their beaks. She is a Salmon Favorolle, she is supposed to be a good mother by breed, right? Nice temperament? She growls and does a threatening posture toward me but the only time she came...

Ok, I have a broody sitting on one chick and 3 eggs. I don't know if the eggs are going to hatch as there has been 2 eggs broken at different times. Each time I brought about half the eggs in and put them in the incubator, I already had eggs in it. At first other hens were sitting on her and...

He has been the alpha male but I think the tables are turning and the Welsummer is not letting him get to the females. I think he is taking advantage of a "sitting duck." LOL He is a Crested Polish and is smaller than the Welsummer so I couldn't figure out why he was the alpha. I thought maybe...

I have 2 adult roosters with 7 hens. I didn't know until recently that I needed about 10 hens to one roo but he isn't after the others. He goes into the coop and climbs on her and when I shoo him away, he just goes to the other side of the coop. I have to chase him out but I can't stay and guard...

I have a problem. One of my roosters keeps trying to mate with my broody while she is on the nest. I have shooed him away twice and snatched him off of her two more times. Should I leave them alone to work it out or should I put him in chicken jail?

Yes. The red milk crate has big hand holes and the baby probably got on mom's back and fell through one of them. The blue milk crate has big holes in it and the baby probably heard the hen moving around and just went in and under her. Mama duck has 4 babies out of 9 eggs and the last egg we took...

If you can see the cage next to her and the red crate in it, there is a Fawn Indian Runner duck in it. We didn't expect her eggs to start hatching until the 5th to the 7th. We found one little ducky under our Salmon Favorolle. LOL When we pushed mama duck out of the way, there was a freshly...

No, she can't pull more into the crate but the other hens lay on her and lay their eggs. I just removed 6 last night and she still had 8. I could have taken 2 more but didn't know how many spots I had left in my incubator.

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Ok, I went outside last night to move my broody and see how many eggs she has. Lifted her up and you will never guess what we found under her. Please, make a few guesses before I tell you. LOL My broody Salmon Favorolle. She doesn't have a name.

She's bigger than the EE in the picture but not by a lot.

My Salmon Favorolle on the nest. EE hen wanting in to lay an egg. A short while later I went in and found the EE sitting half on, half beside the SF. I guess she got her egg laid because she wasn't there a little later. How many eggs can a SF hen sit? I'm going to have to go out...

Thank you. I am excited for her, this is the 2nd time she has gone broody. The other time was earlier this year, she left the eggs and didn't go back and 22 babies hatched in the incubator, those were not all hers either. I hope she makes it all the way this time. I have a young Salmon...

My Salmon Favorolle has gone broody. It has been so busy around here that I didn't write down what day I knew for sure that she was broody. I reached for her and she huffed just a bit but I thought she was just laying an egg. I kept going out to get the eggs out of the nest she's sitting on but...

Something else to try, when you go out at night and the other hens are sitting on her, making the weight enough to break eggs, pick the other hens out and put them on a roost. Hopefully, if you do this for a few nights, they will get the hint.