continuing my series of "entry level" questions on the subject of chicken husbandry.........
I'm planning on getting some and will use the odd egg (most will be given away to neighbours) and also breed them so i've got a supply for the pot.
I'm not planning (initially anyway) to try artificially incubating and hatching the eggs, just gonna leave the chickens to do their thing.
i'm assuming if i go down each day to collect any eggs, if there is no one sitting on them, then i'll take them, but if someone is still in there, then they can keep them.
I assume that once a hen goes broody she'll stop laying and sit on the egg, turning it as required. Or will she continue to lay and sit on the accumulated eggs - and if that's the case, will she stop sitting once it's hatching time?? leaving a few unhatched eggs - that i might have to manually incubate until hatching time.
cheers