Yeah since I got her while she was broody, I really don’t know how long she had been broody for. Could have been 12 weeks for all I know. Yesterday I hatched a black bantam Cochin (what the hen was) on the day she died, from eggs I bought that were in the incubator so hopefully it’ll be a hen...
Ok that’s good (relatively speaking)… how can I prevent this happening? I have two more profit hens that have been broody a week (I’m going to give them eggs that have been incubating).
The broody that passed was on chick starter since her chicks began hatching. It was my understanding that...
I bought a bantam Cochin a couple months ago as a broody hen (like when I picked her up she was broody). Brought her home, put her in the quarantine coop in my carport and gave her some eggs. She was a superstar.
She was skinny (she had been broody for a month and the owner decided to sell her...