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All's well that ends well. My camera is on the fritz, but I was able to post a short clip on YouTube of the peeps and broody dustbathing. The eggs under the broody never hatched. Two were smashed. We discovered that she was really never left alone by the other hens who kept trying to lay...

My broody left her nest for a few minutes today and I was able to get a look at the eggs she was setting on. Of the four I had given her, only two were left. After searching around the nest box I found a broken egg, but that one hadn't developed. Yellow yolk and all that. The other egg was just...

I don't know why it helps, but just getting a couple of responses to my post makes me feel so much better. I don't know what I'd do without all of you BYCers. Thanks!

She's been setting on four fertilized eggs since the afternoon of May 17th. June 7th was day 21. Today is day 23 and it doesn't look like anything is going to happen. I don't get it, really. It's not her first clutch and we've only seen her off the nest three times - although the first time we...