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  1. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Great pics! How did you train your dog to brood chicks? :-) I am planning to get a dog later this year (also a golden retriever) but I am nervous that it will chase the chickens.
  2. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    One of those hens looks a little different! :lau Amazing pics!
  3. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    My daughter loves the inside chicks now & won't let me give them back to the hen, lol. So it looks like we will be brooding them inside. At least it's only 2, so hopefully they will not be too messy. So far the hen is doing great with her little chick outside. I suspect she will get off the nest...
  4. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Yes, so far so good. I have been checking on her today & she seems good with the chick. My husband wants to give her the other 2 back also but I am getting attached to having them inside now. :-) We'll see....
  5. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    I have had a lot of drama with my hatch. I have had a broody (Orpington) sitting on eggs for 3 weeks, and when we went out of town for the last week, another hen (EE) also went broody and was squeezed into the same nesting box. I didn't really want the EE hen to hatch, cause she is a nasty...
  6. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Great picture! Good luck with your hatch!
  7. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    So cute! That's something you don't see every day.
  8. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    I had a chick hatch 3 days early on my first hatch, and the hen sat on the nest for 3 more days after until the others hatched. So don't give up hope @WVduckchick
  9. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Sorry to hear that. I had two broodies last Fall that started fighting when the chicks hatched. One of them suddenly started attacking the other hen and it got pretty bloody. But I have had other broodies that got along fine together. You never know I guess. Hope the rest of your hatch goes better.
  10. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Mine do get pale when they are broody. I would check her for mites just to be sure though, cause they are more susceptible to getting mites while broody.
  11. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Wow, so many! Congrats.
  12. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Haha! Hilarious!
  13. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Thanks! I wouldn't mind having a few babies inside for a bit so maybe that's what I'll do. :-) We'll see what the weather is like in 3 weeks when they arrive.
  14. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    One of my bantam Orps is broody for the third time. This time I decided to order chicks for her instead of giving her fertile eggs to sit on. I'm pretty sure she will accept them with no problem, since she has done it once before. I ordered 8 chicks but the breeder sometimes sends extras so I...
  15. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Thanks. I will try letting them fight a bit longer today and see how it goes.
  16. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    My mama hens are still fighting! The two broodies started fighting the day after they got their chicks and had to be separated, each with her own group of chicks. For the last two weeks, I have given them separate times to free range, but I have also tried short periods of supervised free...
  17. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    I had 2 bantam Orpingtons go broody at that age also.
  18. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Sorry you guys didn't have as many hatch as you wanted. I ended up with only one hatching with the broodies, and 3 hatched in the incubator. I got 9 chicks in the mail though, so I have plenty of chicks! The hens accepted the new chicks with no problems. Unfortunately I had a problem this...
  19. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Thanks @fisherlady , we ended up using some plastic netting my husband bought for gardening. Did the trick! The broodies are left alone now & hopefully we'll have chicks safely hatching in 2 more days.
  20. Honora

    Broody Hen Thread!

    That yellow one is so cute!
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