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  1. cluck-cluck

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Shellz, were your eggs shipped? If anything disturbs the eggs before they're set, it could kill the embryo making the egg look like it's not fertile even so it was. Shipped eggs are notoriously difficult to hatch, and it has nothing to do with skill, but with luck. How gentile was the post...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    Oh Jharper, I'm sorry to hear that! I have a broody, and had no eggs, so I let her sit on some unfertile eggs (actually, one turned out to be fertile) and got some hatchery chicks to slip under her. I saw her step on one of the chicks yesterday, and it was dead this morning. I also have seen...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    I found that leaving a clutch of eggs in the nest will get one or more hens to go broody. You can mark them with a marker, and take any fresh eggs out daily. This is why it's important to remove your eggs as often as is possible if you don't want a bunch of broodies! LOL
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    This is old now, but I thought I'd answer, since I don't know if anyone else has answered :) If you wait until night time, and mama and babies are back in the box, you can poke around under her then, to get at the chicks and examine (under a light) and usually everyone is much calmer. Also...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    Some people report success by putting them in a wire bottom cage. This works, supposedly, because it keeps her undersides cool, and she can't snuggle and get warm. I gave up on my broody because she was so stubborn and I didn't have a wire bottom cage, or a limit on birds, so I let her hatch...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    Do you have a Trader Joe's nearby? They sell fertile eggs, and if you buy them fresh enough (check the Julian date on the carton, not expiration date) and get some that are less than 10 days old if possible, let them come up to room temperature and let her hatch some leghorns! Make sure they...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    cwcochran1961, I had another hen insisting on laying her egg with the broody every day, so if the eggs weren't distinctive (which mine were) I would mark the ones the broody is on (with a permanent marker as pencil will rub off) so that you can collect the fresh eggs every day. You don't want...
  8. cluck-cluck

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Ooops, sorry fisherlady, that was fratmor I was talking to I guess, LOL Thank you, she's a cutie, and so sweet. Today another chick hatched, and I vent checked it and think it's another girl. However, I don't think I can be that lucky and will have to wait 12-14 weeks to know for sure. I...
  9. cluck-cluck

    Broody Hen Thread!

    I thought I posted this, but it's not here :) My broody leghorn with her Crevecoeur chick, LOL I do believe I also see chicken chick feet there, CaCO3! LOL kukupecpec, can you save them, and get them into the incubator? fisherlady, I understand some people put there broodies on a wire...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    I've got to say, I'm amazed. This morning, I sat by the open coop door where the nest box is, and watched my white leghorn (supposedly a mean non-broody breed) teaching her little chick how to eat the chick feed and drink from the nipple waterer. I'm sure she was teaching because she has a...
  11. cluck-cluck

    Broody Hen Thread!

    The San Fernando Valley is part of Los Angeles, and is North of the main basin. I live in the South/West end of it :)
  12. cluck-cluck

    Broody Hen Thread!

    Well, this is where I should have hung out to talk about my broody! My Trader Joe's fertile egg hatched from the refrigerated section turned into a pretty white leghorn who went broody on me 3 or so weeks ago! I tried to kick her off the nest several times over several days but she was adamant...
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