First foray into hatching

[madlaina]

Moved her at night, left her there most of the following day. She refused to even go near the eggs the whole time.
Maybe I gave up too early. As I said, this is our first time and we're all learning. She seems happy where she is now so we'll just leave her to it.

 

[madlaina]

Sooo, now we have two broodies taking up both nesting boxes. That won’t work!
Meatball, the grey one, is now on day 3 with 8 eggs. Hazel, the brown one, has been showing broody signs since last night and is currently sitting on a couple of eggs laid today and therefore not fertilised. I went to our local Aldi and grabbed a selection of boxes, put some nesting material in, plonked chicken and eggs in the box and put the whole thing back in the nesting box. Once it is dark tonight I will attempt to move her in the box. Wish me luck. If it works we will get her some eggs too, otherwise we will have to break her.

 

[madlaina]

For some reason I couldn’t add the photo to my previous post.