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bgmathteach said:
I think they can see the red light of the camera. Chickens can see ultraviolet light, whose wavelengths are shorter than visible light; I am not sure they can see infrared light - their wavelengths are longer than visible light.

This study says they can see roughly 419 - 570 nm

Ultraviolet light wavelengths run from 100 - 400 nm
Infrared light wavelengths run from 780nm - 1mm
Plant Growth and Light Spectrum - California LightWorks


This article on BYC is much easier reading, but less technical.

If anyone has more info, I would love to know more about their eyesight. The first article is pretty comprehensive in evaluation, but is also pretty technically written. I can follow the gist of it, but there are a few things that I just shrugged my shoulders on.
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Ooh. Thank you. I will try giving it a read when I land.
 
knoturavggrl said:
Brownie :barnie
She is back on the nest now. I guess she reconsidered and decided yes indeed she does want to hatch some eggs.

I gently pried her broody butt out of the nest box took all the eggs moved the ceramic ones to the boxes no one ever uses. All looked well she was eating drinking then went outside and I went back in.

Fast forward to a few hrs later and I go out to close up the coop for the evening and where is Brownie???? In the other nest box where I stuck the fake eggs!! I once again took her out and put her on the roost.

She roosted when I put her there however she drooped over the bar still pancaked. Seriously, this girl is pulling out all the drama and tugging on my heart strings.

My coop is not set up for a mama and chicks!

She is completely unproven. I have 15 viable eggs @ day 7 today that I just candled. These eggs are hopefully gonna be my breeding stock and I am hoping to get a trio of each variety to keep and sell the rest. Because of this I am reticent about giving her the eggs now as she could decided to just give up after a few days.

Assuming I can work something out to have a safe spot for her and some chicks. Here are the options I came up with. I welcome feedback on the options or any other suggestions anyone might have.

-I could let her sit on a few infertile eggs till lock down and then give her three to hatch out.
-I could stuff a few under her after they hatch.
- Or I could just keep trying to dissuade her and attempt to endure her pouting.
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I would stuff newly hatched ones under her if she is still broody. The timing will be about right AND you won't risk losing some fertile eggs. I would not risk putting infertile eggs under her. If she accepts them (i.e. not throws them out fo the nest) they will go bad and could burst - you DON"T want that!.
 
RebeccaBoyd said:
If I let Perdita set she will be the 7th hen to hatch or rear chicks since January. I have already had Momma Hen hatch and rear hers. Chiquita adopted and reared the Marshmallows. Goose and Gryffyn are days away from hatching theirs. A week exactly after I set Goose and Gryffyn, Momma Hen went broody again. I give up on breaking that bat so I set her. That very same night my grandmother set Holly. On top of this I have thankfully been able to break up with some effort Raven, Bunny and Karen. Blueberry is acting suspicious, she is thinking about it and so is Chiquita again. I really need to build a few cages off the ground for broody breaking. With my flock, they would never be empty, ever.
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OR...you could go into business selling POL chickens...and find someone who wants Roos. There was a farm in the next town over that sold LOTS of cockerels (he would actually get some - 1000s over the course of the year) to raise to 5 mo. of age, and he would sell them to the many Aisian an Pacific Ilanders (live) for their dinner tables. They had no where else to get them, and it was part of their heritage/normal routine 'back home'.

Unfortunately, that man died suddenly of a heart attack. He would purchase my extra roosters
 

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