- Sep 8, 2008
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At the moment have 10 adults and 18 babies. I have one hen that seems to be a "setter only"? she set one clutch and hatched out 10 babies but after they hatched out, she don't want anything to do with them and two of my other hens took over being mom and the babies stay with the adopted mom(s). well, two weeks later she started setting another clutch (we have several nest boxes and while she is setting on one batch, the hens go lay on another box) so she just went and started setting on another clutch. The second clutch hatched out 8 more babies and the same thing happened and she didn't want them babies after so i took the second set of 8 and put them in a brooder and they hatched out 9 days ago and now this same hen is trying to set a third clutch, back to back. she is a great incubator but never want the babies after they hatch, only wants to hatch more? Never had this issue before.