How is a clutch laid and when will they start sitting? Looking forward to spring!

[Welshies]

Yeah, dogs eat their pup's poop and urine. Rebrascora, I second that.

 

[kesrchicky16]

My best broody pooped in her nest once right on the last day before hatch and I did wonder if that was to increase the humidity.....as you say, how else can they raise it.... It didn't affect the hatch rate.... 100% healthy chicks.... 14/14! Not pleasant, but nature is rarely the hygienic situation that we all seem to want it to be. Chicks often eat their broody mother's poop and I've seen my foals eat their mother's poop..... nature knows best, as disgusting as it sometimes seems to us. There is good bacteria in that poop and instinctively those babies know it.

With my last broody hatch, she got bent out of shape and got into a cock fight with another hen. The other was trying to run away while still defending herself. I stuck a leaf rake between them and said get back to your babies. Hester went right back to the babies and "let" or encouraged them to peck at her bloody waddles and comb! Only a couple pecks a piece but still.