- Apr 29, 2014
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hello!
I have all different breeds of chickens and I can't seem to even get one to go broody. I've used an incubator before to hatch their eggs but I'd like to have the experience of my hen raising them at least once. I have a brahma, buff orphington, salmon faverolle, silkie, Wyandotte, partridge Plymouth Rock, black astroloup, welsummer, Easter egger, and Cochin. All are laying. I've tried putting curtains on the nesting boxes, using fake eggs, leaving the eggs in there a few days to see if someone will sit. Nothing. Yesterday I found one of my girls was laying in an old coop that was no longer being used. There were over 10 eggs and still no one sat on them! Does anyone have any other suggestions?
I can't even get my female guineas to sit on eggs. They lay in the nest boxes with the girls and then just leave them there!
I have all different breeds of chickens and I can't seem to even get one to go broody. I've used an incubator before to hatch their eggs but I'd like to have the experience of my hen raising them at least once. I have a brahma, buff orphington, salmon faverolle, silkie, Wyandotte, partridge Plymouth Rock, black astroloup, welsummer, Easter egger, and Cochin. All are laying. I've tried putting curtains on the nesting boxes, using fake eggs, leaving the eggs in there a few days to see if someone will sit. Nothing. Yesterday I found one of my girls was laying in an old coop that was no longer being used. There were over 10 eggs and still no one sat on them! Does anyone have any other suggestions?
I can't even get my female guineas to sit on eggs. They lay in the nest boxes with the girls and then just leave them there!