The term broody might not be an everyday word used in the average person’s vocabulary, but for anyone who owns chickens it is a well-known poultry tendency. Broodiness is a behavior a hen can exhibit ...

If you are looking to place newly hatched chicks with a hen, you could save yourself some work and give them a more natural experience. Introducing chicks to a broody hen requires some guidance but ...

Egg incubators, such as this Brinsea countertop model, offer another way to hatch chicken eggs if you don't have a broody hen. Now, on to working with broody hens. What follows is an adaptation from ...

Hatching your own chicks with a broody hen is an adventure that combines the wonders of nature with the charm of traditional farming. My year/old Easter Egger, Peach, decided she wanted a family of ...

Lulu has gone broody, so my one source of fresh eggs has dried up. Going broody means a hen has stopped laying and won't leave her nest because she's focused on incubation -- even though Lulu's not ...

I am a poultry farmer in Kitengela and I noticed something unique my neighbour also a poultry farmer, was doing. Recently he had a broody chicken that had sat on eggs for the entire 21 days of ...

This is an experiment I conducted to hatch out quail eggs by using a broody chicken. The concept is the broody hens will sit on the quail eggs and hatch them out so I decided to try this method of ...

Last week, one of the hens refused to vacate the laying box. When approached, she growled like an electric kettle on the edge of boiling. Determined to get my end of the bargain, I reached under her ...

FREER, Texas — Bret Collier is kind of like the Indiana Jones of College Station. Collier is a Texas A&M professor searching for the holy grail of wild turkey management. On the Temple Ranch in Duval ...

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