That makes two of us!! since we have never done this yet either!Yay! So glad we have a broody hen in the group! I've never hatched with a broody before, so I'm always curious to hear all about it.

but we had no problems yet, she moved to the brooder box without fuss and after we were sure she wasn't too freaked out by that move we swapped out her 'practice' eggs for the 'real' ones and she happily covered them right up! I'm just so nervous that the eggs were OK after shipping, and since they are brown eggs I am hoping we will be able to see development by the weekend, since we are basically new to candling also.