Sorry first of all, I am sure this topic has been here many times but my laptop is a bit blown up and it is very difficult to get anywhere, looooong loading times etc. and as I need advise asap it was easiere now just to start the topic again
My youngster has gone broody, just two weeks after she actually has started laying. She is a White Sussex so funnily one of my reasons to get started with Sussex has been as they were said the once going the less broody...
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However, I am honestly a bit unsure. Being broody is natural and her one egg less isn't such a loss. There are 3 more nest boxes, but they are all in the same part of the coop and not separated visually as the "silly" girls kept squeezing themselves in this one so I removed the separating parts. Will she allow the others around for laying???
I managed to get out two of estimated 3 eggs underneath her when the other five started getting settled down for roosting time (I didn't want to leave them as I imagine that a non fertilized egg might become smelly after 21 days of good loving heat?)
And if I would want her to hatch fertile eggs, how much time do I get by her still remaining broody (usually) to get those fertile hatching eggs and HOW do I get them underneath the hen? The same way as I got the others out? Do these eggs need some preparation before being put underneath?
Sorry, so many question. But to broodyness I am absolutely new, got my first three hens only 2.5 months ago and just last weekend the next three. I admit, they ARE adictive and I already got the chickenitis thing. Amazing!
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Thank you very, very much!
Neelam