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I wonder if dubbing is as painful as piercings, or circumcision, or tattoos? I've come home to find roos with torn and bloody combs and wattles from fighting. I found one with a hole torn in his comb and another with a chunk bitten out. It seems that if it is red, it is a target to peck at...

From my end of the Coop. My White Cornish hen was found in a nesting box with two chicks, one of which wasn't hers. Now for a hen that grabbed a chick that was a few days old and flings it in the air with seemingly violent intent, this came to me as a bit of a supprise. The chick is the...

Quote: Howyadoin' Shelleyd? Good to hear from you. Unfortunately I have 35 pound feeders that I only have to fill about once a week. So I am not the food guy. I do come down a couple times a day and give scratch treats but that doesn't seem to have any real connection to me either. I...

Wow! One of the newly hatched chicks about 4-6 days old fell out of its nest and got in with the other young chicks. You would have thought that it was a wicked beast from hell the way the cornish hen grabbed it an gave it a fling. I guess I now know what happened to one of her chicks that...

Current news from my end of the coop. The sixth and hopefully last of my broody hens finally hatched a single chick after being on and off a nest for the past four weeks. It also appears that she is molting. She is doing okay, just appears to be stressed. She is still sitting on the eggs...

I kind of have another question/observation. I have one 7 week old chick with no broody who keeps insisting on getting back into the brooder pen with three momma hens and their chicks. It's not too big a deal. But the observation concern of mine is the momma hens and their chicks. I have two...

I am happy for one of my broody hens Finnaly after about four weeks she has two empty egg shells in the nest with her but outside her fluffed up feathers. She is an easily panic'd white cornish and I like my hands to remain in one piece so I haven't looked under her. The other hen got off...

Quote: Good luck! Sharpies are your friend when you have broodies setting in the general population As long as they aren't they type of hen that will eat your arm off when you check them I've not tried sharpies. Pens and pencils tend to get rubbed off so I quit trying with them. Thanks...

I would like to report a situation where I'm not sure if I am lucky or not. Kind of one of those mixed blessings things. I moved and reduced my flock to accomodate and wanted to further reduce my numbers as time and circumstances occasioned, so I did not plug in my incubator this year. I...

Quote: We will be at the Marathon lot. Right off I75 at exit 136. Super easy to get to. Thanks! July 17, at exit 136, Marathon station lot. Got ya... hope I can make it. I now have three fluffy butts and one still wet, on these first few hours of day 21. All are dark cornish so my roo is...

My first group of broody hens hatched out two chicks and then one got stepped on and killed the other one dissappeared. I guess they fought over them. They all got off the nests after that so I removed all the eggs and put in fresh bedding. I will isolate the next ones if any hatch from the...

Congrats FrChuck on your new chick. I too have at least a couple of new broody hatched chicks. I have two nests with two each hens in each one and at least one chick in each nest. Oh, and at least 20 unhatched eggs in each one. Weither any more will hatch is anyone's guess but at least I...

I have 4 out of 14 hens all broody and hoggin the two most used hen boxes. I may have a fifth hen broody on another nest but am not sure. The reason I think so is that the least used nest box had 5 eggs in it yesterday and it is seldom used at all. What am I going to do if something hatches...

Mrs. Turbo : I hate when I run into someone I know and I forgot their name...... I have a bad memory. I get my kids names wrong all the time....LOL I know what you mean. My memory is only as good as the thing I write it down on. . . . It's a shame that people keep insisting on washing...

Quote: Yep, that looks about like them except that the sides are a bit narrower and there is a top to the nest. Today I found a more bossy white cornish on the nest all puffed out trying to cover all the eggs and not really succeeding too well with the other two taking up other positions on...

Speaking of broody hens I have two hens who are broody and sitting on the same nest side by side. I guess my nest box is a bit too wide. But I guess there should be a better chance of something hatching.

I have two gals who have gone broody on me and I have finally locked them into a cage with food and water. If I don't do this, the other gals will climb in over them and lay a fresh egg which gets mixed into the bunch. Or worse, when the hen gets off the nest to poop, drink and eat, then...

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Quote: I have found out that the less I did with the eggs the better the hatch rate I got. Seems that handling them tends to lower the hatch rate. Good luck and I know the excitement of wanting to watch the development of the eggs is addicting but try to keep it under control.

Quote: Sorry, I had to laugh. I've been there with a 70 % rooster hatch. Well actually, that is why I still have roos...