Hello BYCers!!! I need some help, hopefully rather quickly. I've been trying to get a hen broody for about a week now, and I have chicks coming in a week! I have a nest set up with fluffy hay and bedding with some eggs. Is there a way to entice a hen even more to sit on the eggs? I really am hoping that there is because my father and I were thinking that if we have a hen broody we can give her the chicks when they arrive so we won't have to go through the troubles of introducing new chickens to our flock of 13. I have VERY sociable, and friendly chickens so if nothing works it shouldn't be too hard. If worse comes to worst and it doesn't work I'm hoping my sweet Buff Orp. hen, Esmralda, will take after them. When we got our two couple month old Australorps she tried to mother them and sit on them to keep the little ones warm.
Thanks so much!
~Emily
Thanks so much!
~Emily