The past week the weather here has dropped to 20, 30, and even 40 BELOW zero with the wind chill. I have a heat lamp in my hen house. My BO went broody a couple weeks ago and I kept taking the eggs and kicking her out of the nest. There was a day or two I wasn't able to get out to the chickens. She was sitting on three eggs so I decided to let her continue. That was the 11th, 4 days ago. Now she has 5 eggs and I candled them tonight and four of them have babies, one is a dark egg and hard to tell. I am new to candling so I'm not 100% certain they are good eggs.
Here is my question... should I let her continue to sit, or kick her off the nest and toss the eggs? I'm not going to buy an incubator right now because I have 2 pregnant bunnies (a Holland Lop and a Lionhead) in the house who are due by mid-February, I don't want to be dealing with two litters of bunnies AND baby chicks too!
Should I let her go, or end the broodiness now?
Here is my question... should I let her continue to sit, or kick her off the nest and toss the eggs? I'm not going to buy an incubator right now because I have 2 pregnant bunnies (a Holland Lop and a Lionhead) in the house who are due by mid-February, I don't want to be dealing with two litters of bunnies AND baby chicks too!
Should I let her go, or end the broodiness now?
