heat for eggs

  1. Abborgialli

    Heat wave and first time layers

    Hi all- I have a couple of questions and a bit of a predicament. We live in an arid region, but temps will break 99° - 100° next week for 1-3 days, with no rain. *My hens have windows in their coop (which is white) *they have shade in the side walls of their run *A deep dust bath (not in the...
  2. RobinS1217

    They hatched!!! supplemental heat?

    Theyre hatching! We’re 3 years into chickens and finally got a broody momma who hatched out! So far 4/9 have hatched. It is 60-75 here during the day and 40-55 during the night. I have the momma (still sitting but doing well with her babies) and her chicks in a separated brooder coop. It’s...
  3. C

    Not sitting on the eggs

    The girls sit on the fertile eggs seldomly. We have a small property of half acre and let our girls and Roo "free-range", if you will. They are, for the most part friendly birds. Some a little more of a "lap hen" than others but all of them know we aren't going to hurt them. (4 hens/1 Roo/1...
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