Confused mama
Hatching
- Nov 1, 2022
- 5
- 1
- 6
I had two hens who went broody 5 days before my incubator eggs were due to hatch so I put half the eggs under each of them and the hatched.
But one of the broody hens pushed away the chicks and continued sitting on the eggs that did not hatch and would peck the babies.
I figured maybe she wasn’t broody for long enough so I got 5 more eggs and sat them under her, the second lot have just hatched and she is doing a similar thing searching for new eggs to sit on and is not interested in the 5 chicks at all.
What is wrong with the chick does she just like being broody but mother motherhood ?!?
But one of the broody hens pushed away the chicks and continued sitting on the eggs that did not hatch and would peck the babies.
I figured maybe she wasn’t broody for long enough so I got 5 more eggs and sat them under her, the second lot have just hatched and she is doing a similar thing searching for new eggs to sit on and is not interested in the 5 chicks at all.
What is wrong with the chick does she just like being broody but mother motherhood ?!?