Recent content by sashanellie

Thank you! I think it's hysterical that you are labeled an Enabler. LOL. ♥️

Bumping up! 🙂

Hi everyone! I've had chickens for years now and this group has always been so helpful! Recently a mama hen hid behind a garbage can in the coop and one morning we found 3 brand new chicks. I panicked due to the cold temps here and set up an indoor bin for mama and babies. But it's a mess in the...

Update. She was off them again, caring for the older ones. Do I moved her eggs under the other sitting hen. Today 4 chicks have hatched so far. Fuzz sat near them and clucked until one burrowed under her. So I separated her from the new ones. She just seems to love all chicks!

Well this morning she was in the sun with the chicks so I put her eggs under the other broody mama. It's amazing how some hens are just born to be mothers!

That's what I was worried about. She's still on the eggs. You can see the situation.

So I have 2 chicks being raised by their mama who are about 3 weeks old. In the coop are also 2 broody hens on eggs that should be hatching this week. The 3 week old chicks are often found on top of and in the feathers of one of the broody hens, while their mama is off scratching and...

I've been in the rooster crazy bin and will never go there again. We had one for 2 and a half years because my son was bonded with him. I had to carry one of those giant planter bases to use as a shield and could only use one hand for two years outside. Then we finally culled him. My son picked...

Just updating..I think another hen was eating the eggs and my broody hen was covered the next day, so upset, but she abandoned the nest, took a dust bath, and is now happy as can be. Oh well!

Thank you so much!!

Hello everyone, I just don't know what to do. Poor hen. She's huge, a cochin, and broody, and sitting on fertile eggs. There were 5. Yesterday I came to check on her and she was all upset, out of the box, covered in yolk and egg shells, and there were 3 eggs left. She has never eaten eggs, so...

Thank you for the suggestion, I did, and she and the coop were ok.

Thank you both for your replies and experience. She looks good physically. I take her off the nest every day & she does eat, drink, & scratch a bit each time. I will let her re recuperate then maybe try the eggs & separate her. Poor thing.

My white cochin went broody a month and a half ago. She refused to move to a new box where the others weren't laying, so I moved her back. After a month of taking new eggs and leaving hers, we found that her three eggs were "duds." They never developed. So we took the eggs and encouraged her...

great, thanks!