Newchickadee30
Songster
- Mar 20, 2020
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Hello,
I had my first hen go broody.
We moved her to a cage where I placed fertilized eggs under her that I purchased.
She laid on them a few hours. I then found her where she had moved 11 eggs out of the nest box provided and into the corner of the cage. Some unfortunately had cracked from her moving them out from the lip in the nest box. She pushed out 2 in the 25 days and laid on 6 eggs until day 25 that unfortunately didn’t hatch.
We removed her from the cage and she back in the nesting boxes still being Broody.
From my understanding she needs a break to recuperate right?
Do I just jest keep trying to break her of it or do I give her more fresh fertilized eggs? The cage she was in was a large cage, but she was so glued to the nest.
I want her to be a mama too, but 25 days on a next must be hard on them I’m thinking?
I had my first hen go broody.
We moved her to a cage where I placed fertilized eggs under her that I purchased.
She laid on them a few hours. I then found her where she had moved 11 eggs out of the nest box provided and into the corner of the cage. Some unfortunately had cracked from her moving them out from the lip in the nest box. She pushed out 2 in the 25 days and laid on 6 eggs until day 25 that unfortunately didn’t hatch.
We removed her from the cage and she back in the nesting boxes still being Broody.
From my understanding she needs a break to recuperate right?
Do I just jest keep trying to break her of it or do I give her more fresh fertilized eggs? The cage she was in was a large cage, but she was so glued to the nest.
I want her to be a mama too, but 25 days on a next must be hard on them I’m thinking?
