mother hen

Hello to everyone who is reading this, I hope you are having a great day! For over a month now I have had a broody hen, a BCM named Copper. She has been really devoted to laying on her eggs, but my hens all fight over one nesting box even though they have 3 identical ones, so she lets them lay...

How long can a mother hen be off her hatching eggs before we have problems? I’m in Ohio, weather has been in low 40s today, max amount of time that we are for sure of is 4ish hours give or take. Eggs are around 12 days along. I’ve been meticulously checking these eggs every morning and night...

Hello! I have a mother hen (Cochin bantam, first time mom) who hatched 3 chicks (they are 4 weeks old now). They were separated from the flock for the first week and then gradually introduced back with little field trips, except they slept separately. Yesterday was the first day I had mama...

Hello! I have a mother hen that is taking care of 3 chicks. They hatched 2 weeks ago today, and she’s been with them in a pen ever since. The first week, she was content with sitting with them; but as of the past week, she’s itching to get out. I would put her out, but as soon as she’s away...

Help, my silkie hen is not looking good. She is twisting her head and running into things can't walk properly and stumbles around. Please help. She is mothering 7 baby chicks, the chicks are all fine.

So, my araucana has reached day 21 and so far 2 eggs have hatched (she had 4 left). My little pekin bantam (who is her friend and has also raised chicks) decided she’d sit in the coop next to her and just hang out..? When I went to check on the hen and eggs to see if anymore had hatched my...

Hello everyone, Recently one of my hens hatched some chicks. She's done a stupendous job with them lately & finally got them out & about today to eat & explore! They loved it so much that after I put them in the nesting box, a few hours later.. they're back out with mama. It's a nice day for...

My hen just brooded a clutch of ten, and one of them has sprayed legs. I've made the braces and all but I'm wondering if the mother would reject her after two days of being separated once the chick has its legs corrected. anybody have experience with re-introducing separated chicks to their...

Hello. I've raised many chicks myself in the past, but thought it would be a good learning experience to let a broody handle it this time around. She managed to hatch 3, then I bought 6 more and snuck them under her in the night. That went well. it's been 3 days since she started mothering the...

I have a amberlink hen who has been broody hard the past week and is sitting on infertile eggs. We don’t have a rooster or anyway to get her fertile eggs at rural king they have about week old chicks for 50 cents would it be worth it to put a few under her or will she not take them as hers and...

This is not my first time having a hen hatch her own eggs. First of this clutch hatched last night. This morning, baby was already dry and peeking out from mama. While I was examining, mama kinda pecked at the chick twice. But seemed to be trying to push baby back underneath her. My question: is...

Throwback pic to my hen Miranda and her chick that hatched on July 14, 2018.

This is Sophie, a very proud silkie mother :)

Hello! During the winter freeze, one of our hens thought that it would be ideal to try and hatch some eggs. She is about 5 days in, and sitting on 4 eggs. No idea if any of them will make it, but I am hopeful! We want to let her try and hatch these eggs (and let her raise any hatchlings) rather...

I have three hens that went broody at the same time so I gave them all eggs. They started hatching late Sunday and last I saw there were at least 7 total. Haven’t seen how many there are today yet since I’m at work. I was wondering though how long before I reintroduce mama hen and babies into...

Hello everybody! This is my first post on the site and also my first question: I am planning to buy a mother hen with already hatched chicks, the problem is that I don't know how they will react to their transport. I am not so concerned about keeping the chicks warm - they should stay warm with...

I’ve had two chickens successfully hatch eggs. My cuckoo maran has two, and my banty RIR has one. My CM has started taking her chicks around inside the coop, she’s very protective and attentive to them. I never hear a peep from them. My RIR is still sitting on some eggs and has only taken baby...

Currently we have a momma hen raising 4 adopted chicks, while the hen was sitting on the nest we added a new rooster to the flock, the rooster has been mostly good towards our hens only having a problem with one of our hens at the start ( which we chock up to ptsd from our last horrible rooster...

From the lightest to the heaviest chicken breeds. Chicken can reach decent heights threw flight. How high can each chicken breed fly and what breeds will suit me I have a small backyard and 5-6 foot fence. I also have four Easter Eggers and I’m looking for a nice chicken breed also how high do...

Please someone help, the chicks aren’t getting along and the mother hen doesn’t let all four chicks underneath and we don’t have a heat lamp for the chicks. Really worried for the health of these chicks but my mum doesn’t understand that they need this lamp!:(