LunaMarieWolf
Songster
I need some help.
We got a quick flash flood here in Arkansas. The place where we keep our chickens are rabbits is in an area with a fresh spring and when it rains. It floods the run.
The neighbors pond overflooded behind the coop and there was calf high water flowing very fast and dlooding not only the chicken run, but where we kept our rabbits and the road infront of our house.
We are built somewhat on a hill, so any water further uphill gets poured into our yard and chicken/rabbit area.
I managed to get all the rabbits, rabbit babies, and chickens out and onto higher ground.
But I had to move the broody hen and her eggs and now she won't sit on them. It was very cold outside so I ran them inside and packed them into my already cluttered incubator.
Will she return to the eggs or has she abandoned them?? I can't hold that many eggs in my incubator. She had 4 eggs. 1 cracked in the scuffle. And I had 5 eggs in my incubator which holds only 7 eggs.
I had to take the turner out inorder to fit them all, but I am afraid of having to autoturn the eggs. I have never done it before and I am really scared about messing up the clutch.
Any advice on the flooding or broody hen would be so much help!!
We got a quick flash flood here in Arkansas. The place where we keep our chickens are rabbits is in an area with a fresh spring and when it rains. It floods the run.
The neighbors pond overflooded behind the coop and there was calf high water flowing very fast and dlooding not only the chicken run, but where we kept our rabbits and the road infront of our house.
We are built somewhat on a hill, so any water further uphill gets poured into our yard and chicken/rabbit area.
I managed to get all the rabbits, rabbit babies, and chickens out and onto higher ground.
But I had to move the broody hen and her eggs and now she won't sit on them. It was very cold outside so I ran them inside and packed them into my already cluttered incubator.
Will she return to the eggs or has she abandoned them?? I can't hold that many eggs in my incubator. She had 4 eggs. 1 cracked in the scuffle. And I had 5 eggs in my incubator which holds only 7 eggs.
I had to take the turner out inorder to fit them all, but I am afraid of having to autoturn the eggs. I have never done it before and I am really scared about messing up the clutch.
Any advice on the flooding or broody hen would be so much help!!
