Congrats on your poults. Good luck on your hatching eggs and your hen going broody. Has been hectic week. Spent most of yesterday rebuilding pens. Didn't get done quick enough. My decision to leave hens out for night was costly. Lost all hens that weren't in a pen to coyotes last night. 2 blue slates and 2 bourbon hens. 15 poults. No more outside nests for me.Wow Feedman... Lots going on at your farm, hope you find the missing hen and poults! We spent the weekend building the finishing pen for the 7-9 week old poults, Had them in the grow out pen but kept watching them fly over the six foot fence, knew we needed to get them secured soon. Clipped wings and moved them to their own pen. 12 Poults and 5 chicken pullets were moved, lots of green grass and separated from the adults by chicken wire.
We noticed none of them were roosting under heat lamps so felt it was safe to move them, staying in the mid 40's over night and so far they are all using the ladder roost and doing great! Got two incubators filled with BR eggs, the first round due to hatch this weekend and then every weekend after that. Started saving eggs and leaving them in the brooder box, as of yesterday 13 were out there waiting for hen to decide when enough was enough... She wasn't in the main coop last night, hoping she decided to start sitting, she was out waiting for scratch this morning but when I was done with chores wasn't out with the others, didn't want to disturb her by checking but hoping she was back on the nest. All potential poults in the incubators are sold, planning on allowing the hen to raise what she can... Now need to figure out the hen that lays in the coop, thinking I might allow her to try and set in there, funny to watch her every night to wait for the chicken mommas to get settled down with chicks and then go and help keep them warm.. She is persistent that she sleep with the babies
west central Mo.Don't know where your located but have BR's cooking away, if close you can have a few of them
