broody hen attacked

  1. thronesandroses

    Please Help… Is it too late to reintroduce adopted chicks to my broody hen?

    I have a broody blue production bird that has been broody for about 1 1/2 weeks. She was also super broody last spring so I think she wants to be a mom hen pretty bad. Today I got 3 one-day old chicks. I tried to introduce them to her at around 3pm and 6pm but both times she was not having it...
  2. B

    Introduction

    Hello, My name is Kimberly & I am new to this group. I got my first chickens in June 2020. I got 3 Plymouth Barred Rocks and 3 Golden Comets for egg laying and we got 10 meat chickens. I currently have 6 egg laying chickens. We harvested our meat chickens 9 weeks after we got them. I Love...
  3. amynw

    Broody hen pecking at last hatching egg!

    Hello! I have a broody momma who had 5 chicks hatch 3 days ago. One externally pipped today, just when we were about to give up. When momma saw it, she started pecking the egg aggressively and kicked pine shavings all over it and drew blood, I’m assuming from the blood vessels on the shell. I...
  4. R

    Please help/advise fox killed mother hen, 2 eggs on day 18.

    I'm crushed to say that our sweet broody hen was killed by a fox today. She was at the very tail end of sitting on 5 eggs, 3 hatched two days ago and the two remaining eggs are on approximately day 18/19. I was gone when the attack occurred, the three babies made it out alright but the two...
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