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  1. Romoshka

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Ok, I'm a guy who incubates but last year I had a couple of older hens that went broody. I made HUGE beginner mistakes. I had 4 hens sharing setting duty on 3 nests BUT I failed to mark eggs and the rest of the flock continued to lay in those 3 nests. Needless to say I had a mess. 3 days...
  2. Romoshka

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Ok... My nearly disastrous broody hens/hatching experiment ended today. Last chick hatched after spending over 24 hours attempting to do so. Neck remained twisted and after 12 hours in bator there was no change so I euthanized it. :(. There was a terrible stench in the bator and fearing an...
  3. Romoshka

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Fisher lady you are very helpful. Thank you for your continued advice. I'm indebted to you.
  4. Romoshka

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Anybody got any idea how long after initial hatch I can continue to graft late hatches onto the broodies? Recall that stupid allowed the other hens to continue to lay in the broodies nests. Hence I had egss of progressive ages. Hens got off nest at 3 days so I out the rest in the bator. Been...
  5. Romoshka

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Well may be a bit off topic but I thinks its close enough that the moderators wont kick me off. In earlier posts I chronicled my one and only broody event. Lots of help was greatly appreciated. Only 2 hatched and after 3 days the 4 hens were off the 3 nests they were sharing/co-oping. Rest...
  6. Romoshka

    Broody Hen Thread!

    So 25 of my 46 eggs went into the incubator 3 days after the first chick hatched. Candled out 12 and Left 3 in each of the nests. Next day hens were off the nest so the rest went in after candeling out 2. Since I have no idea ho old these eggs and they candled out "good" I plan to give em at...
  7. Romoshka

    Broody Hen Thread!

    There were 46 total eggs in 3 boxes. I removed all but 3 from each box candled out 12 and put the rest in the incubator. Pencil marked the 3 eggs in each box. Will candle the nine I left tomorrow and remove the failures and replace them with good ones from the incubator. Have had 3 hatch so...
  8. Romoshka

    Broody Hen Thread!

  9. Romoshka

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Big thanks to TiaRC and fisherlady for the help. Now 1 more question: given that the rest of the girls have been laying in the broodies boxes I have eggs of all ages. I intend to candle and transfer to incubator BUT what about turning? Some will be at the point of no turn so I plan to...
  10. Romoshka

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Hey TiaRC, thanks for the quick response. I will leave the "family" intact and watch for trouble. Now how long after hatching does the hen leave the nest? There are eggs of progressive ages in all three nest boxes so potentially there could be hatches every day for the next 20 days.
  11. Romoshka

    Broody Hen Thread!

    I have a community house with 13 black Australorp hens and 1 rooster. The hens are over 3 years old but several weeks ago 4 of them went broody. 2 hens are actually sitting one nest. Hatching started yesterday and ive seen 2 chicks so far. My question is can I leave them in this community...
  12. Romoshka

    Broody Hen Thread!

    We have about 45 black Australorps and have never had one go broody BUT my neighbor free ranges his chickens and they seem to prefer my farm during the day. Conveniently several hens lay in my barn and I get 6-8 free eggs daily. Now most of his birds are (IMHO) ugly naked neck birds but there...
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