NY chicken lover!!!!

[SunnysideupstateNY]

I have a broody!!! This is the third day she has been sitting on the nest most of the day and snarled at me when I collected eggs. I gave her 8 to start with.

Those who have had broodies, do you just let them be or do you candle every so often?

I have my old A frame coop free, should I move her in there?

(I'm excited because babies means I can select a roo from one of my blue eggs and get rid of my current roo!!!)

 

[armorfirelady]

I forget who on here had the pattern for these but I gave it to my Mom & she put them in my Easter basket

I also worked in the herb boxes that are in the hens area next to their coop. It will give them some shade in the summer & they can eat the herbs as they grow & want them

 

[Cass]

I have a broody!!! This is the third day she has been sitting on the nest most of the day and snarled at me when I collected eggs. I gave her 8 to start with.

Those who have had broodies, do you just let them be or do you candle every so often?

I have my old A frame coop free, should I move her in there?

(I'm excited because babies means I can select a roo from one of my blue eggs and get rid of my current roo!!!)

I leave her until "lock down", then I move her someplace safe. If those eggs are peeping she isn't going to leave them, even moved. I don't move her far, however....I have a table in the coop I put her under and wrap chicken wire around the legs to keep the other hens from bothering her. I NEVER candle. I find that the hen kills/eats eggs that are not developing....I also don't candle cuz my eggs are so dark I can't really tell a thing even if I DO candle. I have 100% hatches under broodies. That doesn't mean 100% survive, nor are 100% of the eggs she starts with still there at hatching time. (She throws them out of the nest even when I put them back in, repeatedly)

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

Remember to use TWO spy ware protections.

I use Norton antivirus /firewall and Spybot. My son the computer tech suggested Norton, but you can use whatever one you choose.

Spybot is free to down load. Use a well known site to do so. It has to be updated every so often. Takes just a minute. Once a week is good. You can also run a scan to remove add-ons.

Never click directly on a site from an email or other source. Cut and past it into your browser after opening a new window.

I have Norton also and spyware and it is nothing on my computer and nothing to do with me it is AOL servers. They are sending emails to craigslist emails from a year ago I replied to and I know they are getting it from AOL servers cause that stuff is never stored in my address book. Every AOL customer is complaining and I called AOL tech support and was told it is their servers and they are working on fixing it.

I never click on any links in emails

 

[rancher hicks]

I have Norton also and spyware and it is nothing on my computer and nothing to do with me it is AOL servers. They are sending emails to craigslist emails from a year ago I replied to and I know they are getting it from AOL servers cause that stuff is never stored in my address book. Every AOL customer is complaining and I called AOL tech support and was told it is their servers and they are working on fixing it.

I never click on any links in emails

My advice was just blanket and not meant to target anyone in particular. I used to have AOL and dropped them for poor service. I havent' had them in years and had not thought about them till recent news.

I now have Verizon DSL. I may soon be switching to Time Warner since I can get phone, internet and cable (don't have) for the same $$ as Verizon charges for internet and phone.

 

[Sweetpea3829]

I dropped Norton years ago, lol, and have never looked back. I use all free programs. So far its worked very well, no big issues in four years. I use Avira and Avast primarily. I also use Spybot and Malwarebytes for clean-up from time to time. And I run a boot-time scan on a regular basis...almost daily.

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

My advice was just blanket and not meant to target anyone in particular. I used to have AOL and dropped them for poor service. I havent' had them in years and had not thought about them till recent news.

I now have Verizon DSL. I may soon be switching to Time Warner since I can get phone, internet and cable (don't have) for the same $$ as Verizon charges for internet and phone.

I have frontier DSL can't get time warner they don't go down my road and use the free AOL don't like change so used to it for years we had AOL dial up so have stuck with it just have the free part now. Wish Time Warner would come down my road it would be really nice.

 

[Sweetpea3829]

I have a broody!!! This is the third day she has been sitting on the nest most of the day and snarled at me when I collected eggs. I gave her 8 to start with.

Those who have had broodies, do you just let them be or do you candle every so often?

I have my old A frame coop free, should I move her in there?

(I'm excited because babies means I can select a roo from one of my blue eggs and get rid of my current roo!!!)

I'm jealous, lol. I'm still trying to figure out if my hen is actually going to go broody or what. I gave her 8 eggs today and she sat on them for most of the day. Then she decided, at the end of the day that being broody was for the birds and left the nest for the rest of the day. She was on the roosting bar tonight. So I don't know what the heck she's doing.

 

[Sweetpea3829]

I have frontier DSL can't get time warner they don't go down my road and use the free AOL don't like change so used to it for years we had AOL dial up so have stuck with it just have the free part now. Wish Time Warner would come down my road it would be really nice.

You should try Hughesnet. We've been pleased with it. I only wish it didn't have data caps. But still, the 10GB we are allotted have been plenty. We just can't do any of the Netflix type stuff, which is a bummer because we homeschool and Netflix has some excellent stuff for that. But otherwise, it's been good.

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

I leave her until "lock down", then I move her someplace safe. If those eggs are peeping she isn't going to leave them, even moved. I don't move her far, however....I have a table in the coop I put her under and wrap chicken wire around the legs to keep the other hens from bothering her. I NEVER candle. I find that the hen kills/eats eggs that are not developing....I also don't candle cuz my eggs are so dark I can't really tell a thing even if I DO candle. I have 100% hatches under broodies. That doesn't mean 100% survive, nor are 100% of the eggs she starts with still there at hatching time. (She throws them out of the nest even when I put them back in, repeatedly)

Do you ever have trouble with the other hens kicking the broody out of the nest box? This broody is the lowest in the pecking order and my older EE who is on top kicks her out to lay.
Good point on candling, I don't think I could see through the barnie eggs, when my friend was hatching last year the green eggs were tough to see through as well.