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[COLOR=333333]Welcome to BYC [/COLOR][COLOR=333333][/COLOR][COLOR=333333] Glad you joined us! She will be o.k. as long as you keep doing what you're doing, letting her [/COLOR][COLOR=333333]exercise and make sure she eats well. Hope your eggs come soon![/COLOR]
Thank you.
By the time I have received internet ordered eggs, I have collected my good EE rooster's hatching eggs as well. So I settled some under the broody and some in the incubator. She is definitely determined to sit, but she is in the coop with others. I had unsuccessfully tried to move her to a new brooding coop during the day, she ran back to her old coop - she even opened the "soft" door. And she made a huge mess in the new place, I had to dig all over the fresh wood chips to find her eggs.
So i moved her again this night. Her broody coop is quite big new dog house made of plastic. This time I attached a heavy plastic door to it, it also makes it very dark. It does have ventilation though. I put her in a small box that I top sprinkled fresh wood chips with her favorite stinky box ones for "ambience" . I locked her in.
My intent is to keep her locked up in there for a while. Do i feed her? Since I made her get out twice today, she has a lot of food in her pouch, I felt it. How about water? Should I put a waterer in there now or a bit later? I wish not to disturb her so she gets used to her new home. I don't really want her wandering around. She is also not desperate enough, yet, to take food from my hands. She is so broody she is oblivious to anything even straight under her nose.
How long can she be locked in for? She seemed ok with it at night, but how about daytime? How much food/ water do they need when sitting on eggs?
Thanks again.
