winter broodies

Morning all, Anyone out there in a cold, northern climate ever have asils go broody and hatch chicks in the winter? Just had two sister hens go broody on two nests, one hatched December 26-28th, 8 healthy chicks, the other went broody on Christmas. Normally I would’ve collected the eggs...

One of my calls got broody really, really late in the season, in early September, so the two that survived didn’t hatch until October and had to be raised indoors due to the climate. I live fairly far north and it’s starting to get very cold out, but they’ve outgrown their brooder (5 weeks old)...

One of my Buff Orpingtons has gone broody, again (she went broody in the fall too). I have a seedling heater mat in the nest box to prevent frozen eggs- which is obviously not helping cool her down haha. I’ve been reading about the wire-bottom cage method- but it goes down to -15 or -20’C here...

Edit: we got some fertile eggs from a friend and slipped them under our broody. Hello all, My hen turned broody three weeks ago, so we decided to go ahead and let her sit on some fertile eggs. Tomorrow is day 21 and I am very excited about the possibility of some chicks hatching! Of course it...

Hi! I’m hoping to be buying ducks very soon and I’m hoping for them to be laying in summer! But, is it unsafe for me to buy them this time of year? They will be in a brooder in my basement for the first 9ish weeks and then they will move outside. My main concern is that it will be too cold in...

Hello all! I'm just joining after almost two years of reading the blogs here to answer questions I've had while learning how to raise the chickens and ducks that I've come to be quite attached to. I'm sure I've made a share of mistakes along the way so far, but I have avoided quite a few by...

So I no longer have my Alpha Roo that I was looking forward to getting chicks from in the spring. I also have 2 hens biting me because of broodyness. So I bit the bullet and bought an incubator (farm inovations 4250) and am setting up for giving the hens each 10 eggs and incubating 10 with each...