sleeping in nest

  1. Mayonnaise83

    Could hen still be broody immediately after hatching and killing all of her chicks???

    I have a black copper marans who recently went broody for the first time so I gave her 6 eggs. She successfully hatched 5 of them and then the next day she killed them all. When I found them she was still sitting on the nest because there were still two eggs under her that were laid by other...
  2. Harmoni

    When should they roost?

    Babies that are 5 weeks old today. Mama is still broody with them and they are still sleeping in a nest box. Should I take the nest away? She brings them to ved earlier than the other chickens go to roost. If I take her nest away, is she just going to being them to a nest box that is for laying...
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