Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

dtgyhkyhu (2).jpg I have two broody hens sharing 3 eggs between them (one day one has them all, the next the other does)
They seem to amicably share...

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I have my first broodie but she is sitting on an unfertilized egg (no roosters). I have a small coop with 4 hens, Gracie is a 1 yr old light...

Hello all,
I am hoping to put some eggs under a broody silkie any day now, I was just wondering how other people keep mom and babies separate from...

So my girl Red, hatched from the mailed eggs from WWW last spring. Set her three weeks ago. She was hatching yesterday. Moved her to the stall this...

Peachies 8 are about three weeks now, doing good.

Blackie Wackie hatched 5 out of 8 eggs on Tuesday. Fondue is hatching this morning, Friday, set...

Ontario Chick , you remember the light blue girl I got from you via KB? Well, do you know what your Sensible, no-nonsense Wyandotte is doing? She's...

Thanks to Harvey Ussery's book I believe I've identified a broody hen in our flock. I quickly slapped together a brooding box for her, gave her...

I'm thinking of incubating in March, and April is still too cool to set the chicks in a brooder box in the shed.
Where does everyone else have their...

I know I know Im sorry! Iv been absent for a long time. I kinda gave up..... I didnt even want these ducks when Lizzie spoke up about them and said...

But Blackbeard has her own ideas. She disappeared a few days ago so I assumed that damn fox got her. She showed up Saturday morning, all fluffed up,...

I have 7 silkie hens and 4 have been brooding almost all summer and 2 are too young to lay so that equals less than an egg a day. Any advice on what...

So with the mailed eggs from WWW, I thought I had it figured out fairly well who was what at two months. Then La-chicken came to visit and cast doubt...

We're going to try something different when adding my 5 week old chicks to the flock.
First of all, we are going to put them in one half of the...

So, I have a bunch of broody girls including 2 Swedish Flower Hens..not to mention 1 Silkie, and 1 Smooth Coated Silkie...I have a lot of broodiness...

Well she has done a stellar job with all 9 hatched. Nice fast hatch too. She already has them outside.
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Kathleen 2nd batch...

I really need to get the new/bigger coop set up properly! Eeek!

Peach is sitting on 9 eggs that should hatch this week. I moved her and her eggs...

Along some of my fence is a dense, thick growth of nettles and thistles. I leave it be, because it provides an additional barrier for the boar when...

Now what do I do? Lol. The only 2 nestboxes are occupied! Peach's babies will hatch mid next week and Speckles has decided she needs some too!

This little hen Sat on eleven eggs and since they seemed fertile I left them all, she hatched out eleven chicks! I think that is the most I ever let...

This morning, I found one of our Frey's SDP hens in a nesting box, with no other hens in the adjacent ones.
Thinking she is the broody one, I closed...