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Ok we have chicks!!! Of the 13 eggs momma hen was sitting she kicked we ended up with 10 chicks. 1 egg got kicked out of the nest and broken last week. 10 eggs hatched out no problem and 2 eggs just never developed. Momma hen did a little housecleaning (tossed the broken shells out of her box)...

So far, she seems to be doing find spends most of her time sleeping on the eggs and separating her from the flock doesn't seem to be affecting her much (sadly can't say the same for our rooster) She is in a 12in-by-12in nesting box in a 60x30 dog kennel. It has been a bad spring as far as snakes...

Thanks.

We are attempting to hatch some eggs this year. Over the winter we lost 2 hens to cats. We have one hen that's been pretty broody lately so we decided to see if she will hatch the eggs. We had to start removing the ceramic eggs from whenever she was brooding because she wouldn't leave them...