- Jul 4, 2007
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As you all know, I'm fairly new at raising chickens. I was wonder if someone could help me out with a problem I'm haveing with getting hens to set. In the past,before my first clutch, I was gathering eggs every day, sometimes 2 and 3 times. I was watching very closely to see if I had a hen that was wanting to set , but didn't find anyone interested. After about two months of closely watching, and still no mother hen, I knew I was doing something wrong. I then decided to leave a nest of eggs in the pen at all times(15). It was then that I got a setter. That is the babies I got now. I now have another Mother hen setting on 15 more.
I decided to see if I could get another mother hen to set at the same time. Here is where I'm haveing problems. I have one setting in one box and I have another nest in another box(same pen different boxes) but no one seems to be interested. They have been in there about a week now and still no takers. Is there something I can do to get one interested? Is it possible to have two hens setting in the same pen, at the same time?
