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beth1004
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She has been on 5 eggs. As of last night, 3 had hatched and 1 was in the process. The last one, I’m not sure about. If it hasn’t started pipping, how long do I give it?
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Until mama brings the hatched chicks off the nest to eat and drink.She has been on 5 eggs. As of last night, 3 had hatched and 1 was in the process. The last one, I’m not sure about. If it hasn’t started pipping, how long do I give it?
Until mama brings the hatched chicks off the nest to eat and drink.
She should stay with it if it's still alive....and leave it if it's not.Will she not return to it if it isn’t viable?
It's interesting to come across this forum today. I think I have a broody hen too (my first)...I'm not sure if I need to do anything since I don't have any roosters, so there's no chance of fertilized eggs. And at this point, she just keeps laying in a nesting box with the fake ceramic egg under her. I'm perplexed...lolView attachment 1715992 Hey,
I’m a year into chickens and wondered if I have a broody hen and how do I know for sure.
Here’s a little info to start, I collect our eggs once or twice a day. I was gone all day yesterday so when I went out last night around 6:30 there was a hen on a nest. She made dinosaur sounds when I walked in. I was out about 20 minutes and she was still there when I was heading back in so I left her alone. My husband went out later to lock everyone up and she was still on the nest. This morning she wasn’t on there but there were a couple of eggs in the nest. What do I do? Leave the eggs there and see if she spends more time in there. I’ll be leaving for work in a bit and will be gone all day. If she isn’t broody, I don’t want to leave the eggs sitting. If she is, I wouldn’t mind her hatching a few eggs. Do I mark them? This is an area I’m completely clueless in.
First figure out if she's really broody, these are the sign I use:It's interesting to come across this forum today. I think I have a broody hen too (my first)...I'm not sure if I need to do anything since I don't have any roosters, so there's no chance of fertilized eggs. And at this point, she just keeps laying in a nesting box with the fake ceramic egg under her. I'm perplexed...lol
She sounds a lot like my hen. I checked on her last night, and I believe the hen wanted to kill me. At least that was the look in her eye.