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  1. mendozer

    how long do you give brooding?

    Got some starter today and filled up their feeder. No hatching for egg#2 yet.
  2. mendozer

    how long do you give brooding?

    Yes she did. I will see when I get home if the other egg hatches as well. I put the two of them in a brood cage for now
  3. mendozer

    how long do you give brooding?

    Update: Went out this morning and fed them bananas, nothing spectacular. Came home and tonight went out to grab eggs and she wasn't in the box! She was on the floor and she left three whole eggs in the box (one marked and two unmarked, I guess someone else snuck a few eggs in there recently) and...
  4. mendozer

    how long do you give brooding?

    I check on her daily and just make sure she's still on the two marked eggs. I figure if they don't hatch at the 21 day mark, then something went wrong and I'll try breaking her again in the wire cage
  5. mendozer

    how long do you give brooding?

    Hmmm I don't really have a spot for that. I have six neighboring nesting boxes
  6. mendozer

    how long do you give brooding?

    None of the boxes are soiled so she must be getting up. I'm at work all day so I have to assume
  7. mendozer

    how long do you give brooding?

    block her in another box? then she won't be able to leave for food, assuming she's even doing this, who knows.
  8. mendozer

    how long do you give brooding?

    There were two more yes. Soni collected the fresh two
  9. mendozer

    how long do you give brooding?

    A few weeks ago my Australorp went broody. I did the usual removal, then resorting to the wire cage, then after a week I said screw it. I marked two eggs with a sharpie so I knew which ones they were, gave them to her to nest on, and since have been removing other eggs, leaving her those two...
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