hen won't sit

[bandbaustin]

My red golden hen just will not sit on her eggs she has lais at least twenty now over the last month. I took out the first ten to the incubator, threw three or four out cause she laid in two nests and now she has seven in a newer nest. What should i do? Would like to let her hatch them.

 

[Judy]

Not going to happen unless she goes broody. Broodiness has been bred out of most hatchery chickens, so they will lay more eggs. I don't know what a red golden is but sounds like some sort of sex link, so unlikely she will go broody. Sorry.

This article will explain it all:

http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Broody-Hens-1.html

 

[bandbaustin]

red golden is a breed of pheasant, she sat on her eggs last year and hatched a few of them but I am getting iMpatient. I hope she sets soon.

 

[bandbaustin]

She is now sitting on 7 or 8 eggs finally. I hatched 9 already from her a few days ago, now its her turn.