brooding

  1. Stacyoung13

    Why my hen quit laying

    I have 2 hens old enough to lay. One, Mamma, lays everyday. Baby Girl was laying everyday, then she started brooding. She done this for about a month, without laying any eggs. She finally came out of it, but still hasn't laid an egg. It's been 3 weeks since she quit brooding. Is she ever going...
  2. Breemae123

    I never see Muscovy Duck off her nest. Should I move her to candle the eggs?

    I check on my ducks a lot. They have a good portion of the yard fenced off and I can peek over. I never see my brooding Muscovy off her nest. I know you’re suppose to remove bad eggs but I haven’t even candled them once since I have never seen her not sitting on them. Should I try to remove her...
    • Breemae123
    • Thread
    • brooding candling hatching and brooding ducks muscovy muscovy ducklings
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Ducks
  3. |Aphrodite|

    Can a broody hen sit on old eggs?

    My hen started showing signs of being broody, and today she started sitting, but the eggs she’s sitting on are a bit old (some are about a week old and others maybe older). So I was wondering if she could still hatch them, or if I should buy her some knew eggs (though I might not be able too)...
  4. chicksonline

    Sexing hybrid chicks

    As hybrid hens are hard to sex as they are not colour linked etc I was wondering if the females take after the fathers colours and the males take after there mother because the ones we have pin pointed as males are the same colour as the Mum and visa versa I also read that if you have a fast...
    • chicksonline
    • Thread
    • brooding chick 1 month chickens chicks hatching hens incubating pullets rooster sexing
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  5. littlecollier

    First-Timer

    Hello! After 5+ years of contemplating, planning and preparing for ducklings, we are finally ready to attempt our first hatch! I’m absolutely thrilled. I’ve been lurking around BYC for some time and love the community and support it offers. Friends of ours have a pair of Ancona ducks and...
    • littlecollier
    • Thread
    • advice brood brooding ducklings ducks hatch incubator
    • Replies: 421
    • Forum: Ducks
  6. SheenaBee

    Hen (adult) with splayed legs??!

    Good Morning all, I have a little bantam Silkie hen that has been sitting diligently on a small clutch. She had been getting up daily. Her eggs are now hatched but she is sitting with her legs straight out to the sides like she’s doing the splits. If I pick her up and help her stand, she can...
  7. Delmuth

    I'm ready for them to go outside, Are they?

    Hello all, altough I have had mutiple flocks over the years this is the first time ive raised any from chicks. I purchased 10 White Leghorns pullets from the local Rural King on Feb 3. I have them in the garage in a large homemade brooder. Week one and two they recieved added heat from a heat...
  8. Mahapoultry

    Weird problem with baby chick

    I just got into breeding, raising, selling chickens/chicks.i have over 200 chicks at the moment. But I walked out to one of my brooders the other day and I have a chick running in circles with her head twisted in a weird way, has this happened to anyone else?
  9. A

    Agression during brooding

    G'day all! Sorry I haven't got back to everyone who has replied to other threads yet - have been super busy! Recently upgraded my hutch to a 1.5 x 1.5 x 2m aviary, and installed gravity feeders and waterers to the wall, and also lots of hiding spots, hay and also live grass. My females have...
    • Aussie92
    • Thread
    • agression brooding eggs female laying quail
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Quail
  10. nigella

    Moving Ducklings

    Hi there! I work in some university gardens and we're going to get 4 ducklings this spring! We are very excited! I was planning to brood them in a large Rubbermaid to start. My initial plan was to take them to work with me and then home again at night. Would this twice a day trip be too...
    • nigella
    • Thread
    • brooding duck ducklings
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Ducks
  11. KelseyCochin

    Chicken Newbie- 4 months and counting...

    I got my first trio- Bielefelder, Cochin, and Olive Egger about four months ago. I fell in love, so of course it made sense to buy 29 cochin hatchlings and start incubating leghorns and golden comets. Soon I had fifty! I’ve been mostly giving them away or selling them for practically nothing...
    • KelseyCochin
    • Thread
    • brooding broody hens cochin cochins color colorations identifying chicks mixed breeds selective breeding silkies
    • Replies: 44
    • Forum: New Member Introductions
  12. A

    Hen laying, moulting and being partially broody all at same time

    My Aseel, who is around and above a year old, is going through her moult. A light one though. She is missing feathers on both her leg joints and few other places as well. Unnoticeable without picking her up and having a deeper look. But interestingly, she hasn't stopped laying. Neither the...
  13. kemnerg

    Hens bullying another hen

    We have had our hens for 2.5 years. They all seem to get along pretty well, they will occasionally pick on our Bard Cochin while she is brooding, but within the last 2 weeks, the other hens have been picking on her a lot. The bard cochin is now staying in the roost most of the day since the...
  14. M

    Brooding issues with a Coocoo Maran

    First time posting, this site was recommended by a friend, so I hope I am adhering to community forum guidelines. Our 7 month old Coocoo Maran just started brooding behaviors about 2-3 weeks ago. My boyfriend and I tried techniques to rid the behavior, like blocking her off, or picking her up...
  15. Scotty from BI

    Questions regarding brooding chicks in winter

    This will be my third flock in about 6 years. I decided to purchase some chicks (12), which will arrive as day old chicks in mid October. I live near Seattle Washington so temps will go down to about 32 degrees for a month or two between end of December and February. With adult chicks I...
  16. Chullicken

    I Can't Figure This Out

    Have several issues all evolving around one. Recently has a year and half old Austrolorp go broody and had her separated from he rest. Before I separated her, I noticed the rest of the flock was treating her like complete sh*t when she would come out for a few minutes to eat, drink and dust...
  17. Farmer In Training

    ROOSTER HELP NEEDED NOW!

    Okay so, I have this silkie hen and this silkie serama rooster. I just bought the silkie hen, and she is separated from my other large chicken flock and by herself. She just started laying eggs and stays in the brooder box with no heat lamp but it moved every evening to the duck pen right...
  18. Kater_tot

    Starting over..again. We might be cursed.

    so, in feb we bought 10 chicks and two turkeys from a local feed store. No one warned us they couldn't brood together. It was still below freezing during the day, we set them up in the garage with heat lamps and several thermometers. Kept at 105* one day the turkeys died, the the chicks all...
  19. G

    New Chicken Owner with first brooder

    Hi: I am a fairly new owner of 5 Barred Rock chickens with one being a rooster. For the first time I have a broody hen and checking out the site for insight. A snake got the first set of the brooders eggs so she is stealing the other hens eggs and brooding them.
  20. MerrieC

    Golden Wyandotte stopped laying, won't leave nesting box

    i have a Golden Wyandotte that's been laying fine until about 3 weeks ago. Now she sits on an empty nest until I move her. We live in central Florida so it's hot and humid. We have 5 chickens all different types. We had a rooster but had to get rid of him due to local ordinances. She was laying...
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