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  1. Walls9

    Will Duck eggs still hatch?

    My one year old Rouen has been sitting on eggs all day until about 2 or 3pm and joins the other ducks to swim and eat at that time. I have no idea what time she gets back on the nest because I shut them in around 6 or 7pm and I don’t see her go directly to the nest. So I’m wondering will the...
    • Walls9
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    • #egghatching broody ducks
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    • Forum: Ducks
  2. Montymoo

    Weird broody Marans

    I have a year old Copper Marans that went broody and I couldn’t break her. We wound up getting her 2 babies from TS. They took to each other right away and she has been wonderful with them. They are raised with the flock. The thing is they were 31 days old yesterday, and she is already back to...
  3. P

    Broody Small chickens

    I am new here so please forgive me if this is common knowledge. I am looking for the smallest breed of checkin that gets broody and has decent egg production.
  4. Paddlehands

    Cuckoo / Double nrst

    So this is my first egg year and seemingly duckling. My Swedish went broody first Then my magpie... and recently it seems the khaki.... Even before being obviously broody the khaki was laying beside the magpie (and khaki would adopt the egg) or in the magpies nest during break. I used to...
  5. A

    Broody raising chicks/medicated feed

    Hiii! I currently have a broody I gave 1 day olds to 2 werks ago. She is being an amazing mama and is in an enclosure off my current run from my flock of 3 hens. She seems to be trying to get to the other side with the others. I would gladly let her go with her chicks as I think she would...
    • AshG
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    • broody chick chick starter integrading flocks medicated starter feed
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  6. carlyt

    Overall confused, broody hen, day 25, killing chicks?

    My 1st hen went broody 7 out of 10 eggs hatched, perfect no issues. Shortly after, the Hen#2 went broody (I thought it would be as easy as the first..) Day 19 I moved the Tupperware nesting box into a dog kennel for lock down. I wanted them on a flat surface when they hatched (as per fb advice)...
  7. I

    Gamefowl laying hen Stockton, CA

    1-ish year old gamefowl hen mix needs a good home. She flew into our yard randomly just before Christmas last year and none of our neighbors have claimed her. We got some more pullets so she could have friends and the integration has not gone well. She thinks she owns our entire yard and that...
  8. Goldnmine

    Rooster & hens attacking a broody hen

    I have 8 hens and 1 roo, one of my girls has started acting broody (feathers ruffled and broody clucking) and every time she comes out of the coop my rooster and other hens chase her and will grab feathers out if they can get her, she pretty much runs back in the coop for a bit and same...
  9. miskyst

    Mama with week-old chicks adopting day-old chick?

    I started incubating eggs last month and 2 hatched a week ago. A week after the incubation started one hen, Saffron, got broody (she has mothered chicks before) so we decided to let Saffron adopt them. We also gave her a couple of eggs just to keep her broody. The adoption process was...
    • miskyst
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    • adopt chickens baby chick 0-1 week old and up broody broody and chicks
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  10. NickiV

    Broody Guinea Fowl

    If I'm not especially interested in my guineas hatching their own eggs, is there any reason why I can't just chase a broody guinea off the nest and remove the eggs? Will she go back to the coop? I'm really more invested in keeping them alive then letting them reproduce.
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    • broody eggs guinea fowl nest
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    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  11. C

    Broody hen breaking eggs

    I have a broody hen who is a right miserable lady. I have her completely separated from the flock so there are definitely no squabbles happening. I gave her a dozen fertilized eggs, one was a duck egg (oops) so I removed that on day 2. Then a few days later I found egg shells in her area. And a...
  12. NightingaleJen

    Egg broken by/beneath broody

    Found most of an eggshell in our broody pen this afternoon when I went out to check on everyone; the broody (who has raised chicks before, FWIW) pretty clearly removed it from the nest. It must have been accidentally broken or she decided it was off somehow. I checked an egg from beneath her and...
  13. R

    Turkey hen moved some eggs but left others…

    It looks like Smokey moved part of her nest. I know this because there were over 10 turkey eggs, I caught a glimpse when she ran out for a dine n dash the other day. And now it looks like there are only like 3-4, plus a bunch of duck eggs. And obviously there is at least one bad one there if not...
  14. Livia Ammon

    My ISA wants to be broody

    My sweet ISA brown chicken, Crazy Eye, wanted to have chicks… …For all of three minutes. I had just stuffed my rollout nest boxes with straw because they weren’t laying in them. I also put a clean fake ceramic egg in a few of them. Crazy Eye started acting odd when she stretched her neck as far...
  15. bjdewell

    Broody Hen - Dog Crate floor?

    One of my four 3-year-old Black Australorps has been broody for around a month. Each day I removed her 3 or 4 times from the egg box to free-range in the backyard. She’d stay out for a while, then was back in an egg box again. It was disrupting the other three, then some of the hens started...
  16. X

    Broody trying to kill babies!!

    I am so disappointed in my broody, she is a prairie bluebell. She is about 9 months and went broody three weeks ago. I was SO excited! I have never had a broody hen before! in those three weeks she did absolutely amazing, got off the nest in the morning and afternoon but went right back her...
  17. X

    New member

    I have a broody hen with 5 eggs. (She had six but broke one around week 1) she is barely a year old, she is a prairie bluebell egger. so last night I put her in a different nesting spot because her chicks are due to hatch today and her nesting box is really high up and I didn’t want the chicks...
  18. M

    Managing Broody Hens

    Hey everyone! I have 3 broody hens, all in separate places. Only one is in a safe place for chicks to hatch. Another is in a predator safe space, but not suitable for hatching (milk crate inside the chickshaw) and the final is in an old mill house on our property, I thought this girl was...
  19. ElGoose

    Tips on dealing with a particularly aggressive momma?

    My girl, Hetty, who’s just hatched 3 goslings is definitely our LEAST trusting goose lol - I think I’d mentioned before that she came from a farm where she had practically no human contact, no water to bathe herself, no shed room etc and she absolutely HATES people no matter how comfortable...
    • ElGoose
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    • broody goose goose aggression goslings
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    • Forum: Geese
  20. A

    How did you succeed introducing ducklings to a broody duck?

    Hi everyone! I have a female who couldn’t decide if she wanted to be broody or not. I let her set on a nest with no luck. We successfully incubated ducklings and after they were nice and dry and had been shown where to get food and water, I introduced them to the maybe-I’ll-hatch-babies...
    • ADuckingMess
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    • broody duck addict ducklings just hatched
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Ducks
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