- Sep 6, 2009
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doing alot of reading.........on this forum and another one. and am getting more and more confused.
My ideal plan was to have 12-14 egg laying hens for my daughter to take care, with my help, for her to make some money selling eggs. she also wanted to watch a hen get broody and hatch some eggs.
from what I've read, I've saw that people put fertile eggs under a hen who's gone broody in the egg laying group.
others say that finding a broody hen to put with a rooster are hit and miss
then I read that if you get a broody hen and put fertile eggs under her, you probably have to move her due to the nest boxes being so high up, then I read that if you move them, they often will not want to sit back on the eggs.
Am I dreaming to think I can get the broody hen and have a wee little family for my daughter to ogle over.
sigh.
My ideal plan was to have 12-14 egg laying hens for my daughter to take care, with my help, for her to make some money selling eggs. she also wanted to watch a hen get broody and hatch some eggs.
from what I've read, I've saw that people put fertile eggs under a hen who's gone broody in the egg laying group.
others say that finding a broody hen to put with a rooster are hit and miss
then I read that if you get a broody hen and put fertile eggs under her, you probably have to move her due to the nest boxes being so high up, then I read that if you move them, they often will not want to sit back on the eggs.
Am I dreaming to think I can get the broody hen and have a wee little family for my daughter to ogle over.
sigh.