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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: It-needed-a-home on April 18, 2011, 08:22:00 am

Title: dissappearing eggs with broody hen ??
Post by: It-needed-a-home on April 18, 2011, 08:22:00 am

Some advise please,

i have a broody hen at the moment sitting on some eggs and she was sitting on 9 and went to shoo her off yesterday to drink feed and toilet and there was 6 ????

any ideas ??

are thwy the unfertilized ones or what ??

1st time this has happened to me !!

cheers

Title: Re: dissappearing eggs with broody hen ??
Post by: doganjo on April 18, 2011, 09:47:06 am

Rats or crows/magpies.  Make sure she is totally barricaded in or you'll lose the lot.

Title: Re: dissappearing eggs with broody hen ??
Post by: northfifeduckling on April 18, 2011, 12:26:38 pm

one of mine ate hers after the first hatched >:( she wanted an only child  ;) we kept her in isolation until she started laying again and gave her mustard eggs to cure the habit. thank heavens it worked. :chook: :&>