How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[cherrynberry]

How do you do that?
I have a very brood hen. She'll fluff her feathers but I shhh her and pet her and she let's me take her eggs. She's pulled all her stomach feathers, her comb got weird. She won't leave her nest to eat or drink. I tried bringing her food and I take her out of the nest. Sometimes she'll eat other times she won't. I gave her a couple of eggs to see if she'll hatch them but shes been jumping from one nest to another. She wants more eggs.

Are you going to let her hatch?? If not, I recommend breaking her. It will spare her her life. Broody hens can die on the nest if they sit for too long and it’s definitely not healthy.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Sound advice of broody can die if allowed to roost but nothing hatches or breaks her.
Young one not serious if she is nest hopping.
Lat night 9 big girl and 2 in banty land.
11 hatched from the incubator.

 

[WallyG74]

10, 11, 12 pretty much every day right now. I have 2 broody hens fighting over eggs and 1 I need to break but all my chicken facilities are full at the moment.

 

[chrissynemetz]

55 today.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

We take the eggs from the broody hens. They still try as soon as they lay again or another hen lays. But they go get food and water, once done being mad at us.

I attempted introduction of chicks to broody hens. Honestly both seemed okay as far as not being aggressive but neither showed interest in the chicks, unlike our old RIR who would mother anything remotely chick like… she would see a baby bird and that was her chick from that point on… these two would require sneaking out to the coop and swapping eggs out and sticking babies under them in the middle of the night sort of stealth operation. I am uncomfortable with the weather outside to do that. (I brought the hens inside to the brooder to observe them with the chicks).

We lost two chicks yesterday we don’t know why, this is the earliest live order we have done (one lost in shipping) and usually we have no losses from this hatchery. So I cut the test run short in case something is happening like some chicks afraid of hen (not that I saw her interfering with the chicks), and so not coming out from under warmer. No evidence of violence to the chicks… they were the two I was worried about from beginning, not as active as other chicks.

Anyway back to normal procedure here. It was interesting to observe the two different hens reactions, very different than our old red hen.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have only given live to the silkie I had. Banty have their own coop here. Doing it at night they take them.

 

[Poodlemum]

Ev says she say a SLW sitting, so we’re pretty certain they laid this stunner!

One of the WJG are still sitting, so it’s looking like another full dozen today. We had 6 dozen eggs picked up this week and still overflowing after spring break

 

[Granny23]

I have 4 hens. As soon as they turned 6 mos they've been laying every day...3-4 eggs each day consistently. My oldest is 10 mos and the youngest 2 are 8 mos. The weather has been really nice in southern California so why have they seemingly just quit laying.
One RIR lays daily but no one else going on day 3.

 

[Granny23]

Ev says she say a SLW sitting, so we’re pretty certain they laid this stunner!

One of the WJG are still sitting, so it’s looking like another full dozen today. We had 6 dozen eggs picked up this week and still overflowing after spring break

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I get those huge double yokers on occasion from my RIR's. They are awesome!

 

[chrissynemetz]

56 today.