It’s all instinct for chickens, and Peach sat faithfully on her nest of 11 eggs. All of my hens contributed eggs to this adventure, and one hen even left two eggs to hatch. The next three weeks ...

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 ...

A broody hen is in it for the long haul—usually around 21 days, the natural hatching period. But if there are no chicks coming, and she keeps doing this on repeat, it can wear her down.

Gemma got her hen, Miss Arabella, some fertilized eggs to help her become a mother after she was acting broody. TikTok @gemmashaylee. As Gemma placed the eggs in sawdust near the hen's perch, the ...

When all are broody, remove the dummies and give the hens enough eggs to sit on. After hatching, distribute chicks to few hens. It is also possible to do relay hatching where hens sit on more than ...

On day 21 of the incubation period—the expected hatch date—Bugarin went outside with her toddler to check on the broody hen. She found one chick had already hatched and began collecting eggs ...

This may make you chicken out of buying eggs. A content creator incubated fertilized eggs purchased from Trader Joe’s and hatched baby chicks, alarming regular shoppers at the chain grocer. A ...