hello, i'm looking for a bit of help and advice ... I have got a white Wyandotte bantam sitting on 6 eggs, she has been on them for 4/5 days, she is in a very large dog crate in a nest box with food and water but the dog crate is inside the pen with the other hens and cock. I am wanting to mover her and put her on her own...is it best to do it in the dark at night time? Also I want to remove the eggs she's sitting on and put some larger eggs underneath her..what is the best way of doing this? Thankyou in advance
I don't like to move them, they either go bat to where they like or they stop being broody, what I have done is mark the ones I want her to have with a pencil x remove any other eggs you don't want her to hatch.. a bantam- no more than 9 full sized eggs, a reg hen no more than 12 I say this because it is the best heat. It may be cute to see hen sit on 40 eggs but you end up wasting most, and they just get gross.
