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It-needed-a-home

  • Joined Apr 2011
    • Aberdeenshire
  • Zeus (our saxony duck)
dissappearing eggs with broody hen ??
« 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
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Well i have cut back and i still have to many !!!! Oh well just as well i love them !!

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
    • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: dissappearing eggs with broody hen ??
« Reply #1 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.
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northfifeduckling

  • Joined Jan 2009
    • Fife
    • North Fife Blog
Re: dissappearing eggs with broody hen ??
« Reply #2 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: :&>
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