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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: PhillipWillie on July 19, 2011, 03:10:31 pm

Title: What should i do?
Post by: PhillipWillie on July 19, 2011, 03:10:31 pm

I have a leghorn hen which only today i have discovered in a nest under trees with 5 chicks. There are 11 unhatched eggs (3 cracked open). I was wondering if i should move the hen, chicks and eggs into a shed or would that put her off her clock? I dont really want the chicks to stay out much longer.

Title: Re: What should i do?
Post by: Sylvia on July 19, 2011, 06:46:14 pm

As long as the hen is looking after the chicks they won't come to any harm for a day or so.Unless you're worried about predators, in which case you may have to sacrifice the unhatched eggs to save the ones already here.

Title: Re: What should i do?
Post by: PhillipWillie on July 19, 2011, 08:08:26 pm

I  moved the hen with the chicks and the eggs, luckily enough she has taken to the eggs again :)

Title: Re: What should i do?
Post by: doganjo on July 19, 2011, 10:27:17 pm

Great news.  I'd have done the same. ;D

Title: Re: What should i do?
Post by: bazzais on July 20, 2011, 05:34:22 pm

Good luck with the other little critters :)

I wouldn't have had the b*****ks to move them through fright of rejection of the others.

aww sweet.

Baz