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So no more broody hens and chicks, unfortunately. It seems that once a hen sits on eggs that fail to hatch, even though she still sits on the eggs sometimes for weeks afterwards, she isn't actually interested in chicks. I tried to adopt chicks hatched in the incubator to three broody hens...

The white and silver hen still hasn't given up sitting on her eggs. I've left them be since the eggs were in no danger of getting nasty (having no development to speak of). I didn't expect her to keep going this long. I thought she would quit after a week past hatch and I would clean out the...

Tame broody hens are always the best. The crazy ones stress me out. The silver scarlet a few posts back actually turned on her chicks after a few days. She hated, hated me. I couldn't clean the pen, replace water, food, or even go near the pen without her freaking and stomping her chicks...

I live in SoCal so cold normally isn't an issue. Can infertile eggs have an air cell? It looks like all the eggs mine was sitting on never developed past 2 days if at all. You've moved a broody and her nest before? How did you do this successfully? It seems broody quail are quite easily...

This one has sat on about 14 eggs for 17 days but unfortunately, none have developed. It is the end of the breeding season currently so I suppose that's why none developed. I hope she tries next year. This one will probably be my last broody for the season, hopefully at least a few of the...

Roselina has hatched some celadon chicks:

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More broody quail . . . Also, the hen pictured in my older post above (now named Ladybug) is setting eggs for the second time this season. I have started swapping eggs that are just about to hatch into the incubator, having them hatch there, and then having the hen adopt chicks (starting with...

There is almost always at least one broody in the aviary. Sometimes two or three.

So this one didn't hatch her chicks but adopted them from the incubator. I noticed that most of the eggs I had given her to sit on had failed about a week and a half in. I had a small hatch going in the incubator so I slid a chick under her at night then I came back about a half-hour later and...