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Um,but wait - don't we try to avoid our birds inhaling ammonia? I'm old, and easily confused......

I've had one hen go broody twice - our dear, sweet, Atillla the Hen - and both times were a bust. Got one roo out of 15 eggs the first time and none out of 9 the second. <sigh> So I'm ill prepared to answer your first question. I just removed the shell from the one egg that hatched, and took...

This late in the season there isn't anything available locally. Not a single feed store still carries chicks. I suppose I could order more, but with my luck she'd stop the day the chicks get here.

I'm a little worried about Agatha. We had to remove the last of her eggs yesterday, and all evening she kept calling that soft "cluck cluck" while she looked for them. Last night she didn't roost with the others - she slept on the floor of the spot where the broody pen was. This morning she...

Thanks for all the warm comments! I guess it's goodbye for a while to Atilla the Hen. Poor baby!

After water candling Agatha's eggs this evening, we've pulled them. They stunk, (one of them really bad) but I wasn't sure if that was from the egg that exploded before or not. Got my answer when they went into the water. They floated so high that most of the egg was out of the water. There...

The way I see it, if the girls are happy, and they can successfully raise a brood, then the setup, regardless of what it is, is perfect. (And my comma key just collapsed from exhaustion with that sentence!)

<sigh> Still waiting for Agatha to hatch me out a Little Scout or two....not a sign of anything happening out there. She was off the nest for a few minutes this evening for a drink - it's been in the 90s here and she wasn't very comfortable. So while she was out I sneaked a peek from the...

Went outside and sat quietly on a bucket just outside the run. I was listening so hard for any little peeps or other sounds coming from the broody pen. I know I can hear Agatha (Atilla the Hen) making little soft clucking sounds, but then I thought I heard peeping! I sat so still I was barely...

I gave Agatha 9 eggs to hatch out. Yesterday she left the nest (totally on her own) for a good stretch of the legs and a bite to eat, so I took advantage of the opportunity to get a closer look at how things were going in the nest. She is down to only 4 eggs in there. A closer look revealed...

This is where being here on this thread is going to get a little hard....especially explaining to those of you who were with me when Agatha hatched Scout, and then through his subsequent mishaps. We had to cull him yesterday. It was not a choice made easily or lightly, and in truth if I had...

And chain mail, and a shield, and gauntlets........

On a scale of 1-10, sticking any appendage of mine to within 10 feet of Attila the Hen scares the pee-waddin' out of me! She is NOT a nice broody, yet she is normally a very docile, calm chicken. She is my granddaughter Katie's chicken, and if I can't trust each bird out there around my...

Agatha doesn't move. She has been in her huge broody pen now for 13 days. There have been 2 broody poops. That's it. Her food is barely eaten. She has a tendency to sit with her head toward the back of the nest so all we ever see is her tail sticking out. Last year when she did that I kept...

I'm kind of anxious to see what chicks result from Scout's "amorous activities." Agatha (his surrogate mom last year) is sitting on 9 eggs - two EE eggs and at least 4 Marans eggs. The other eggs are Red Sex Links. I'm hoping the Marans' eggs with Scout as the daddy will give me a couple of...

Agatha (Attilla the Hen) doesn't come off the nest for any reason. Period. Today is her 8th day. She has not budged - I've been looking at her tail, in the same position she assumed when she went in there, for those entire 8 days. I dropped a little of her favorite scratch right at the...

We used hardware cloth ziptied all the way around ours and that worked too .

Or nail Jello to the wall.... <sigh>

You are all much braver than this old lady. This is Agatha's second time sitting eggs, and I learned well the first time not to touch her! When she's broody her name changes to Attilla the Hen! Man, is she a total grouch! The broody pen is in the run. All I have to do is open the run door...

It would make a difference if your Ameraucana is really an Amerecauna and not an Easter Egger, I think. But I'm not much help on pricing.