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Congrats with at least one chick. If the broody and chick are within sight of the flock , integration shouldnt be very difficult. But I wouldn’t put them together until the chick(s) is at least a week old and a bit stronger. I don’t have any experience with a broody that was completely out of...

I have been reading on a respectable Dutch site (levende have) that adding hemp seed (singing bird seed) to the feed , helps the chickens to lay through the winter. You need to add it from late autumn until februari. I tried it once. Maybe it helped a little, but it wasn’t like a miracle...

Sorry to hear he is so unwell. But your flock will survive without a rooster too. And from his offspring you might have a good rooster again in a year or 2.

:welcome I hope you got the help you need. I will see if I can find the question.

Hope your rooster will be fine. Recipe for water with electrolytes: 1 cup warm water 2 teaspoons honey OR molasses OR granulated sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon baking soda OR 1 teaspoon apple cider vinager

I had more trouble with separated hens than with co-brooders or co-mama’s. The separated hens (2x) who waited for their own chicks pecked on chicks of the other hen who hatched nearby. The first time I relocated the broody with the eggs. The second time I gave the eggs to the broody with one...

Sometimes there are people who love to attend chickens / livestock who cant keep them themselves because they live in apartment or in a village with restrictions. (See Shadrach allotment ex-bat thread...

Another idea: sell /give away most chicks after the broody abandoned them (often 5-10 weeks old) and keep the number of chickens to a manageable size. Possibly. I never had them. But if chickens don’t like them they might search another ‘nest’. Someone has to check at least 2x a week imho...

Make a tunnel to the run. Buy a tradle feeder

I agree with Texasblues. Chicken keeping can be easy with a good coop, good run and a auto-pop door. The chickens go into the coop by themself around sunset. If the auto pop door is adjusted right on lumen. They will all be safely locked up inside the coop. In the morning the pop door opens...

I sure hope its a pullet. But Im not 100% convinced she is because of the bantam Sussex chicks I had last year. The male chick was clear very early because the breeder knew the colouring. But he developed very slow in relation to the male Vorwerk and Dutch I had too. Almost 12 weeks old...

Welcome Aaron! Great to read you see chickens as personalities. ❤️

Great post! ❤⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ I even can imagine the interaction/disturbance. What you can do for the broodies comfort and protection (if you like the idea): Buy 5-10 meters of hwc or 4-8 panels to make a fence around the coop where ms Speedy (Fez) is sitting. In the evening the other flock members will...

Egg candling broodies & incubator Yesterday evening before I went to bed (already tired) I candled eggs for the second time. 6 eggs under Black and Ini mini, candled 3 eggs: Took the first one out. I could see through 👀 There was no number on it. Then I realised it was an egg from...

This really sucks. My experience is: The cord is the weakest part of the chicken guard. I could roll off the cord quite a bit after it got worn out. I could cut the bad piece off without any problem. After a reset it worked fine again. You have to put it up in the coop to reset and check the...

Are you also trying to figure out the fertility rate of the eggs (rooster quality) ? Or just everything that involves a superb hatch rate with a broody ?

One of my hens (random) goes broody if I leave 4-5 eggs (or fake eggs) in a nestbox. In spring/summer. When I have a broody, another hen will accompany her within a week for a co-hatch. I don’t think roosters or feed is contributing. Biut health is very important. A broody has to survive 21...

I wonder what the purpose is of these questions? Yes, the chickens free range. Part of the day, sometimes 8 hours. But not every day. Yes, I feed standard layer feed. But other feed too. No, they dont stay in the coop. They have an auto pop door to a run. No, I dont give high protein feed...

I wonder if I should interfere in Tintins upbringing by Pearl. He is stil nurtured, sleeps in a nest-box and doesn’t roost at all. It’s about time he starts to poop from the roost. On the other hand it’s not inconvenient if he doesn’t roost when his mother leaves him. That way it’s easier to...

Tintin doesn’t want to roost either . First time experience for me too. He really is a strange cockerel. Part of it must be his mother upbringing. She doesn’t teach him to roost at all. PS the photo belong to a question in my own thread...