natural incubation

  1. boopsqueak

    Only One Fertile Duck Egg, Now What?

    Our Rouen duck Magnolia went broody just before Easter, so we decided to give her some eggs to hatch. We gave her four duck eggs, two were apparently not fertilized and were discarded, and two were developing quite nicely. Unfortunately, one of the eggs was destroyed this morning. We are pretty...
  2. F

    Hatch rate with natural incubatuon?

    What is the hatch rate for natural incubation compared to artificial incubation? I'm not interested in artificial incubation but I am currently raising a couple broody breeds and wonder about letting them hatch their own when the time comes.
  3. Discochickens14

    Natural B

    Hello! I am here to talk about my first time incubating eggs in my 3 years of owning chickens! I’m sorry if this post is in the wrong forum I’m new here. I have a Buff Orpington sitting on a clutch of eggs (Which probably aren’t hers as most of them aren’t the color Orpington chickens lay) who I...
  4. mrsperryhens22

    Bantam Cochin as Egg Hatcher

    I have had a rather broody Bantam Cochin so this year I bought her some fertilized eggs. She has managed to hatch one and only abandoned the eggs 2x for rather short periods of time. We have some heat advisory level weather here so I am hoping maybe more will hatch. I have a few day old chicks...
  5. JarvisChickens

    How do I get my hens to go broody?

    Hi there. I really want to see my hens hatching their own chicks this spring/summer. I have had chickens for about 4 years now, and have not had too much luck with my hens going broody, except for 2 years ago... but then a weasel came and killed half of my chickens. The main chickens I have are...
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