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Good day Willie! Get those braids going
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She's doing a good job. She only stays off nest for an hour or so to eat and drink. It's so hot during the day (high 80s and low 90s without heat index added), she should be fine right?good morning Dolly's brood! Grow chickies grow!
Long as she isn't off her eggs too long. I have incubator room now (a bunch of eggs didn't develop) but still would rather her hatch em.I think so as long as she’s eating and drinking
She’s either allowing other hens to lay in the same nest, or she’s “egg-napping” from other nests. I didn’t believe they could do that, until I saw it for myself. I once caught one of my girls in the act… she was leaving another nesting box, so I lifted her wings, and there was an egg beneath!Doubt it bc the nest is an old dresser and has....lemme show you. Its boxes and off the ground. Idk how she'd move em.
See how each one is a box off the ground? Unless she has arms somehow and then she needs to clean up lol.
What?! They tuck em in the wing area? Sneaky sneaky.She’s either allowing other hens to lay in the same nest, or she’s “egg-napping” from other nests. I didn’t believe they could do that, until I saw it for myself. I once caught one of my girls in the act… she was leaving another nesting box, so I lifted her wings, and there was an egg beneath!
The broody in question is an EE who was extremely insistent on being broody. She was sitting on 3 marked eggs in the broody box, but she kept moving to another one and fussing with those eggs (but not settling down on them). She’d lose interest (I thought) and settle back on her own eggs. In the following 2 days, I was finding more in her nest. I was thinking that another hen was invading the broody box… until I caught her one day sort of waddling back toward hers. I thought something was wrong with her, so I began checking her out, lifted her wings and an egg rolled out! I moved her and her eggs to brood in another building after that!What?! They tuck em in the wing area? Sneaky sneaky.