Thank you. The Australorp has gone broody before. We have a young hen around 7 months old which is an Ameraucana. Our Australorp is 5 years old. Okay, good tip that the first eggs from a rooster need to work out the genetic kinks. Okay, so don't just put her with the eggs. Got it. She is...
Yes, our black australorp is usually easy to go broody. She's done it twice before. On the first hatch, only one survived to adulthood, a rooster. On the second hatch, she only hatched one chick out of the 2 fertilized eggs and that pullet did not survive to adulthood. So, I don't know if...
The overnight temperature is still in the 40s and highs in the 50s and 60s. Tonight is particularly cold since today's high was 43 degrees. We are now on day 10 from the first laid egg. These eggs are fertile and we have eight of them. We have a black australorp and have left the 8 eggs in the...