Broody Hen DISASTER !

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We have four broody hens. We waited so long to figure this mess out it has led to a bit of a disaster.
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@lisafeingold1966 7 лет назад

Bless your heart. How compassionate of you to feel for those eggs. Thanks for sharing the real life of your beautiful homestead. I love that you are bartering.😃👏

@isabo3556 7 лет назад

1. Once the babies hatch the mother hen will move away from the flock. If she has time to do that they will be fine. 2. If you do not like so many broody hens you could put them in a cage or enclosure with a muddy or very wet ground. Leave them there for a few hours. Usually they come out of it quickly. 3. After that if you want to know if eggs are incubated you can put them in a bowl or large glass of water. If the eggs stand upright or even start to floot they are incubated. If the eggs stay flat they are fresh and you can safely eat them. Learned that from a farmer as a girl. Has proven to be very usefull in my life. 4. Success :)

@debbielewis533 7 лет назад

Bri love your vlogs. I've raised chickens for 50 years. I have batums and they set constantly. I gather the eggs. look at them for size and shape also if there is a hen I like, I try to collect her eggs . when I have one go broody I set her on my saved unrefridged eggs at one time marking them and noting date on calender.then I check her nest when she comes off for stray eggs. some I move but most I leave wherr they set and just monitor them . a card board box works fine for a brooding nest .

@sakshisakshi8150 7 лет назад

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@rebeccabott9454 7 лет назад

You got lots of practical advice from others (which is good, because I have none to offer), but I wanted to thank you for being so honest in this post. As someone considering this kind of life, or considering something closer to it than I have now, it's nice to know that being hurt and sad is an acceptable response to death on the farm.

@PartTimePermies 7 лет назад

They will keep changing nest boxes whenever they get up to eat, drink and relieve themselves as long as they have a choice of nests with eggs in them. Also, those nest boxes in the tractor are too high up, once the eggs start hatching and the chicks start moving around, they will fall out, the mom might leave the nest box to cover any chicks outside leaving the ones inside, and they can get hurt falling out. They really need a nest that is ground level or level with floor of the coop. Also, if you don't know how old the eggs are, you're likely going to get a staggered hatch and the mom will only stay on the nest with chicks already hatched for 24-48 hours, then she will have to take them to food and water, leaving any remaining eggs/just hatched chicks behind. I highly suggest setting them up with fresh eggs all at the same time when they first go broody, and in an isolated area where hatching chicks can't fall out anywhere (nest level with floor or ground) and where the moms only have one nest choice to return to after eating. I set up some simple nursery tractor coops for this reason and they can be kept in the vicinity of the main coop if they are also mobile. I hope this helps. I'm sorry about the dead chicks.

@joeycarter3105 6 лет назад

Good Advice!!

@dogshitbb144 6 лет назад

My chicken goes in the same nesting box

@amandachristine9286 2 года назад

Exactly. This was sad to watch.

@EverydayKindaGuy 7 лет назад

Overly complicating things. If you want some to hatch, pick one or two nest boxes and leave them be. Collect all others. If not, pick the chickens up and plunk them down away from the nest and collect all boxes. They'll eventually stop wanting to sit all the time. For candling eggs, I just go out when it's dark. Have an LED lantern that has a top that comes off. Makes it easy to put a toilet paper roll over the LED array. LOTS of light, makes it easy to tell. And if you're messing with marking eggs to ID keepers, put the X at the very tip of the narrow end. Easy to see at a glance.

@kayeschlenert5905 7 лет назад

hi Bri love your channel. I recommend you set up a separate area for your broody hen, that way they can hatch in safety, you need to keep them separate from the rest of the flock until they are much bigger, or the others will pick on them and kill them. I have an area separated from my main run, with a large broody box they stay in there even after Mum returns to the flock, once they are about 12 - 16 weeks old you can introduce them to the flock. good luck and I hope you get lots of cute baby chicks.

@norweavernh 7 лет назад

Watch Pataras broody chicken set up at Appalachian Homestead. The Brodie's need an isolated set up in a barn or pen. Choose a couple, break the rest. Candle your eggs, it's not expensive or hard to check on viability. Don't just guess.

@scienceoutthere 7 лет назад

Yep. That's exactly right. None of these larger breeds are generally "excellent" at broodiness and this video hits a lot of the examples why. Over and above exclusion, Once you do find a good broody mom, keep her forever! If one starts being broody and fails at the job....take her to the stew pot---they'll only cause headaches and low egg production. Harvery Ussery's books have some great detail on the subject.

@paulapkg4181 7 лет назад

you're doing fine. it is trial and error. everyone has a different set up,also death happens, it is heart breaking. you will be awesome at chicken "mammahood" stick with it. 💕

@scooter041031 7 лет назад

Justin Rhodes set up for those guys when they got broody was good too. He removed momma and eggs from the flock. Also with the silkies I know you mentioned it in another vlog about them being able to get beat up by the other chickens. That happened to my Silkies I came home and they had been killed by the rest of the flock. They really are a very calm and low key chicken I liked them because they were much more tame and would actually like to be picked up.

@TheGreenlight777 7 лет назад

Hi Bri, I had one hen go broody and all my coops were occupied so I found a small tent in my storage and filled it with wood shavings. Then I put ceramic eggs in with the hen to see if she would adjust and sit on them. Then after two days of that I started collecting from the breeds I wanted more of and kept them in a box at 50 degrees until I had the number I needed. Then I gave them to my hen all at once so they would hatch all at once. Hope that helps and makes sense.

@vwseramas 7 лет назад

Separate broody hen to an individual cage with it's own food and water. Other hens will disrupt and destroy another hens nest. We used 55 gallon barrels laying on their sides and put a wire door on the front of them, giving them their own water/food.

@WholesomeRoots 7 лет назад

so sorry about the chick complications! I would candle all those eggs and see what stage they are at. if you have chicks hatching you need to know and be sure that there isn't a chicken out there harming them. it's always a good idea to separate broody hens from the flock so they can safely hatch and get established. Good luck! xoxoxo

@lolorton 7 лет назад

Wholesome Roots we have a hen with chicks that is separate roaming our yard. now her babies are 4 weeks old. how would i get them back with the flock? this is our first time hatching chicks. thanks

@hubertpolzleitner9119 6 лет назад

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@rsoubiea 7 лет назад

wow look at your garden grow! what a calamity with those eggs, my goodness. glad you got a handle on things. keep us posted.

@TheNursesArtandGaming 7 лет назад

Candle the eggs and see if there's anything growing inside. If there is then give them back to the chickens. And also check eggs every day even when there's broody hens to avoid situations like that. And separate the broody hens from the flock into a different pen when it's close to hatch time so the other hens don't kill the baby chicks

@margaritamendez6919 7 лет назад

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@candicechristensen1753 7 лет назад

my husband built a nursery in our coop. a small separate room with a chicken wire door so they can still see the flock and it has two nest boxes. if I want my girls to hatch a clutch I can just move them and their eggs at night and they're all set. It has two nest boxes so I can double up and if they get confused and switch best, it's no problem 😉 it just makes it easier

@CiecieNewson 7 лет назад

Death is part of life on a farm. Don't beat yourself up over the lost chicks. ~Smile!

@imjustsayin109 7 лет назад

Hey Kiddo don't woulda, coulda, shoulda yourself. You are the busiest lady on the planet. Together with nurturing those wonderful little hatchlings who live in your house, you have taken on a whole new world of little ones. I know losing any of them is tragic, but you have stretched yourself and your love over every beautiful acre of your homestead. Just be proud of what goes right and forgive yourself for the things that go wrong!

@lolorton 7 лет назад

I'm just sayin' i agree, we have had our share of chicken mistakes over the years and still learning.

@cleverkimscurios3783 7 лет назад

Don't beat yourself up. Stuff happens. Maybe don't let them keep eggs up in the milk crates because they'll fall out, only let them brood in the buckets on the ground. I'm sure you've already thought of that. HAHA I've never heard a chicken growl before! (I don't care what other people call it, that's what I'm calling it) Lunch looks gooooood! It's really neat how YT is helping homesteaders network.

@rushellealexandra5243 6 лет назад

i have one that makes dino noises

@marbarnes7063 7 лет назад

We had a couple broody hens at the same time a couple years ago that kept stealing each others eggs. One day the nest on the left would have 14 eggs and the nest on the right would have 2, next day it would be reversed. I thought it was "him" also that had done something but nope! We caught the chickens tucking them under their chin and wings, carrying them from one nest to the other! We isolated one with all the eggs and broke the other broody hen. It didn't turn out well, only 2 hatched and only one lived. I always isolated after that.

@batpherlangkharkrang7976 4 года назад

Hi..... Art and Bri, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍

@amberrogers4870 7 лет назад

Ugh, we are in the same situation. I had 5 broody hens so I removed the 2 hens sitting on nests out of the boxes and gave them an area away from the other hens and kicked everyone else out of the boxes. I may have succeeded in stopping the other broodys. We shall see. Sharpie is fine, I use it for all my eggs. I put the dates on them then do foot ball rings around them.

@kaitycameleonshea8067 7 лет назад

you can check the eggs for chicks by taking them in a dark room in your house and then put a flash light underneath the egg. It's called candling. This way you can see the chicks inside.

@bountyfarmchickfarmchick4658 7 лет назад

Feed them back to your chickens.. I've seen Justin do that... I am sorry about the ones that died...it is hard to lose ba y chickens...it well work out Bri...chin up, that's the farm way...Have a blessed day !!💕

@dawnscott3015 7 лет назад

I've learned, too, from this video and your experiences. Successes and difficulties are all a part of this life we live. Please keep us posted as to the results in the hatching and thanks.

@jd81998 7 лет назад

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@welshharlequin7722 7 лет назад

Great shot of the apple! BEA-U-TIFUL broody hens. Adorbs. You should take tons of photos of them and make cards. I would buy the cards. And magnets. And beautiful stuff.

@reneep9968 7 лет назад

You are so adorable Bri. Did you find out where the eggs went? Your garden is really coming along! Thank you for sharing. Blessings....

@Thewanderlustgene1 7 лет назад

It happens. This year we had a brooding hen that I let have some eggs. I would check them and they were fine. They would start pipping but the next time I would check her they would be gone. No chick or shells. I finally realized she had to be eating them. You live and learn. 😳

@joeycarter3105 6 лет назад

we used to save up a clutch of eggs then isolate a broody hen and set her on them if she is an experienced mom she will take rite to a clutch of eggs That Way You Can Selective Breed! We mite also get eggs from neighbors and introduce new blood into our flock! our birds were free range they lived in a big old barn that was far away from our garden! As A Child It Was So Magical Going Into That Big Barn And Searching For eggs! Some Nests We Diden't find and would be surprised with a brood of chicks and a very protective momma! Once We Had A Topknot bantam That Hatched A Brood And Went Wild In the woods!

@leahwelscher5500 6 лет назад

I usually put my broody hens in a separate pen with their eggs so nobody else can lay in the nest. Also, it helps prevent cannibalism of the chicks by the other chickens

@patchampion9823 7 лет назад

It looks like something got into the nest and cleaned out the eggs. Good luck with them. tyfs Pat

@LuisAngel-jn8dl 7 лет назад

i will also recomend you guys to check very often for red chicken mites. in this season with broody hens they reproduce really really fast and they can easily jump in humans and spread all over the place, people and other animals. it's really a nightmare!

@sathiskumar7594 7 лет назад

I think she has too many eggs to hatch!! you should have isolated those broody hens longback! it's okay. we learn from mistakes. Also if she is gonna hatch soon it's unsafe for baby chicks in there.

@rutha1464 6 лет назад

broody hens are a great and economic way to increase your flock for eggs and meat. to prevent nest swapping, you must have a minimum of one nest for every hen in your flock. that way, each hen will claim her own nest. also, it helps to block the nests of broody hens except when feeding to prevent non broody hens from disturbing mother to be. good luck. from an old chicken lover.

@smokeyangelav 7 лет назад

Goodness people are harsh today. I had a boss that swore the worst day for retail was Sunday because people were grumpy. Bri always gets things figured out!

@baio.8741 7 лет назад

We did the exact same thing this year. I wish we had isolated them when they went broody, but we didnt. Two hens ended up broody but the other hens were still using the nesting boxes to lay, we didnt mark them, the hens left nest to sit on other eggs for too long that chicks died. One chick hatched and I believe were killed by another chicken. It was a disaster. We didnt get eggs for a month, and ended up with one chick. Now I know!

@dragonflygrandma 7 лет назад

Nice video Bri, good luck with all those eggs. I have to tell ya, the intro to this video is absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing and Blessings.

@jenjenm8457 7 лет назад

I isolate my broody hens now so we don't have this egg problem. When my broody would get up for food and water, she came back to another hen laying an egg on her nest so she tried to incubate other eggs in another nest. It was a nightmare.

@josephtirgoala7647 7 лет назад

I've had a similar situation with my broodys/and layers. One somewhat more sure way to see what stage the eggs are in (if they are fertile and about how far developed they are vs/newly laid eggs), is to candle them. Depending on the color of the egg-it might be hard to be sure on all the eggs. But put eggs in similar development stage under the same broody, and put a board up to lock her in (no more new eggs coming in, and let her out once or twice a day-they will show you when they're ready to go back in their nests. Hope all turns out well for you. This worked for us and hope it works for you :)

@HerocratesHelloagainfromruralN 7 лет назад

Hello, try candlelight it will tell you if they are viable. Your chickens are probably eating them and any chicks that hatch. Good luck and bless you.

@psychobunny32 7 лет назад

our hens steal each other's eggs, and sometimes push eggs out of the box. As for marking eggs, we date them with date they were laid, so we know when to expect chicks, or toss old eggs. Other hens will kill chicks, so we separate our expectant mothers and their eggs/chicks. We lost a few chicks and caught some of the dominant hens in the act. We haven't lost any since separating them .

@debketelsen3742 7 лет назад

When I was around 5 or 6 I stayed a few days with my grandmother and my job was to get the eggs from the hen house. One very large hen pecked me so hard I had deep sores on my hand. My grandmother told me to get the eggs or I would be in trouble. I took a whiffle bat with me......... That hen never bothered me again. No. I did not hurt her. LOL!

@suzisaintjames 7 лет назад

Since chicks will be hatching at various times, Patara takes each hatched chick and puts it in a brooder box with the heat lamp, food, water, etc. So that the mama can concentrate on hatching all the eggs and not leave the nest to tend the babies. Then when all the eggs are hatched, that are going to hatch, she returns all the chicks back to the mama to raise. Don't be discouraged. You can only learn by doing. Keep up the good work. It's terrible, but there is death in homesteading, which you already know. Praying that God will give you strength and he's giving you the wisdom through trial and error. Also through all your friends on RU-vid. P.S. I agree with you about the sharpie being toxic. Do an experiment... We know sharpie lasts, cause of all the comments, but also try a second ring with soft pencil line too and see if the pencil will last the whole 3 weeks. What about using a dashed line... Less ink? As there just needs to be a slight indication as the goal of marking is indicating hatching vs harvesting. But I agree I like the ring better than the X. There are a lot of eggs under her now, but it is summer time and she seems to have it under control, but keep this factor on mind when evaluating the outcome in a few weeks. You might be able to give her a bit of a break by eliminating the dudds by candling them. Just use any bright flashlight in a dark room. If you don't see anything it's a dudd. xoxo

@debbiegallett1125 7 лет назад

I always move mine into a dog crate on the ground after about 2 weeks. I let one hatch in a nest box off the ground once and the chicks hatched and fell out and died.

@charlottewillis9252 7 лет назад

Looks like there are several suggestions in the comments for you about the broody hens. Very interesting to me because I live in the city and garden but don't have chickens. I think it is just like gardening - it us all an experiment :0) You will learn and be great at raising chickens, just have to get information and go from there. Your kids are getting such a good education about life.

@ajames7321 7 лет назад

I would have drawn a smiley face on the eggs but i am silly like that.

@dawnkatz8452 7 лет назад

What about candling to see if the egg is fertilized? Then give it back. Take the unfertilized ones.

@1happyemma 6 лет назад

My suggestion, have an incubator and even if you have to do staggered hatchings of eggs who are in different ages of development, you can save more chicks even if you have to hand raise them. It also will save you from getting picked if babies grow up being hand raised and actually like you :P (well, not 100% but hand raised chicks like people more than broody raised babies.)

@CrossroadToCountry 7 лет назад

Just remove the other nest, or remove her and her nest from the rest. Marking is a good idea when others hens are around because often times they'll lay on the broody hen's nest. Keep trying you'll do fine!

@kimphilby7999 6 лет назад

Don't let many hens to get broody.You can bath them with cold water,put them in a dark place with no food,but a cup of water,and do n't forget to bath them with water every morning,untill they calm down.Many broody hens are disaster for the chiks and the eggs.

@stevesanimalcare5428 7 лет назад

broody hens need their own cage or run if you want to get rid of some eggs you know a fertile put them in a bucket with ice water and they will die or stop being fertile and they will not have any pain. great video. :)

@sweetheartsmom 7 лет назад

need to separate broodies to a different pen. the other chickens Will kill the babies as they hatch

@gabrielalemangonzales2986 6 лет назад

Me encanta poder ver todo tipo de videos que me sirven y ayudan a seguir aprendiendo Muchas cosas de los animales.. Y todo lo que tenga que ver con postres ..Me encanta ingresar a RU-vid

@len1045678 6 лет назад

I remember when i started raising chicken when i was 15.. to many broodies in the same nesting area is confusion after certain time hens do compete for babies and food.. what i use to do, as soon as they start laying i take the eggs away from the most careless hens so they won't have too many chicks, too many chicks attrack mongoose, specially where i come from. Isolate the broodies a specially so u wont have a big disaster

@myducks911 6 лет назад

I've only had one hen that was unbearable to touch when broody. But even with her, if I needed to get under her to count eggs, candle, status check (since she was a homicidal hen I had to pull the eggs while they were peeping and put them in the incubator), I'd reach under and deal with the bite marks lol no gloves

@HillaireFarm 7 лет назад

there is some good info in the comments on how to deal with broodies. i hope you take the time to read them

@dorothywiseman567 7 лет назад

I would like to say I too am hatching with a broody. I have candled but not sure what I'm looking at. Watched a few videos but the eggs I've candled didn't look like those. Didn't see vains...(brown eggs) heard they are hard to see...anyway...today is day 21...and she is still sitting. When I look now there is barely any thing to see all dark. Think I'll give them a few more days...then shuck them...I don't really know what else to do...I would hate to throw out a baby chick ...What to do....nerve racking...BTW did anyone tell her what to look for when she candles...vains...and movement, which I didn't see in any of mine...Thank you The video is great

@SimplySonjaTX 7 лет назад

To all the folks criticizing Bri, where was all this sage advise last week when they mentioned having multiple broody hens? That video showed the nests were in the crates. So for people to jump on their soap boxes to criticize, bash, and behave rudely AFTER the fact is just ridiculous. Art & Bri are kind enough to take us along on their homestead journey and many of us are learning right along side them. So how about next time you notice a pending problem take the time to offer constructive advise and solutions. You could have educated hundreds of aspiring homesteaders and saved Bri the heartache of learning the hard way.

@lolorton 7 лет назад

Sonja Garcia well said!

@foveralone659 6 лет назад

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@allatgoddess8961 6 лет назад

THat fence you have, with wide open holes, is dangerous. Foxes and even snakes can get in.

@hsjdndd6081 7 лет назад

you guys are really going about this the wrong way, take one of those broody hens, put her in a cat cage, and take all eggs that might be able to hatch, candle them and see what ones are fertile then put them under the hen, that chick died because chickens are huge cannibals and it started to hatch but the other ones killed it and tried to eat it, there was probably fighting over the nest between some hens and they broke the eggs. if you are gonna make your hens go broody they HAVE to be separate otherwize other hens will try to push them off to lay their eggs and if the hen can even get a egg to hatch it will just be killed by the other hens the only adult chickens that are naturally nice to baby chicks are roosters, all the hens will just beat on them. same with that duck, when her babies hatch the chickens will kill them, you better keep her separate, this is not bullshit you can ignore me if you want but i speak from experience and you are gonna end up with a lot of dead chicks and ducklings if you don't take care of them right and no the mamma duck will not be able to protect her babies, the hens know she will attack them so they just dart in and grab one when they're little and then run and the mom duck won't chase because then more hens will come and snatch up her ducklings, you can put the mom duck and her babies back in once they are too big to be eaten so like a week or two but the chicks will be abandoned by there mom after 2 weeks because they're too much of a hassle for her to protect from the other hens so she just gives up and leaves them. please block off the broody animals if you want babies, you can not keep them in with the flock, any video on youtube will tell you that

@hsjdndd6081 7 лет назад

and if you are gonna ask me how i know this or call me stupid and say i got it offline, i did not, i have had chickens around me ever since i was born, my parents had them every single year of my life as i grew up and as soon as i left i got some of my own, i remember when i was a kid i did not have books, or the internet, i had to learn about chickens by observing them, my dad told me about broody hens and said that i could not let the hens go broody and that it would slow egg production, i of course did not listen and i let a few hens go broody and i hid them up in our hay loft, when the chicks hatched i brought them down to visit the flock, as soon as i put them down a hen ran up and grabbed a chick by the leg and ran as fast as she could out into the woods to go and kill it, i chased her down and took it back but one of its feet was ripped clean off, i put the hens with their chicks back into the hay loft and kept them there, a week later they were much larger and 1 foot survived, i brought them back to the coop. The broody hens were able to defend their much larger chicks very easily but after a few weeks they just abandoned them i could only assume that it was because the hens could not take the constant fighting and decided the chicks were not worth so much work. surprisingly they did not all immediately get killed, the other hens were actually scared of them, i suppose it was because whenever they saw them they immediately thought of there angry mother, this did not last for long though, it only took them a few more weeks to realize there mom was no longer protecting them, luckily they were far too large to be killed but they were violently bullied and injured by the other hens until they reached adult size. Fast forward 10 years and i am an adult living in my own home with ducks and chickens, i had some muscovy hens and a drake and about 40 chickens and 10 rouens and pekins, one of my muscovy hens went broody and just finished laying her clutch, she started incubating the eggs but the hens that usually laid there were pissed, they would shove themselves in there and lay eggs on top of her, in her struggles she destroyed half of her own eggs within a week, every time she left to drink and eat the hens would jump into the nest and lay there own eggs, she soon decided that she would just stay on the nest and never leave, she only had 25 days left of incubation, she can make it 25 days without food right? Wrong. she starved and i was the last one to force her off the nest, she was nearly dead, i took her inside and tried to make her eat, she would not, i had to resort to force feeding to keep her alive and it took her weeks to fully recover, by this point a second muscovy had gone broody, i was not to be tricked this time, i quickly moved her to a little cat cage and let her finish her incubation there. When her chicks hatched i introduced them back into the duck flock and all the ducks were very caring and surprised to see new ducklings but then the nasty evil hens started to try and snatch them as soon as i left. this surprisingly lead to the brutal death of not the ducklings but a hen, i suppose in her mad dash to snatch a chick she accidently ran into the muscovy mother, the mom must have gotten in front of her chicks before the hen could get to them because she grabbed that hen and beat the crap out of it by the time i came out there she was still tearing at the hens neck feather as the hen lay motionless on the ground, in the process a rooster tried to help but he could not do much but get grabbed himself, and somewhere in between the caos 3 of the ducklings were either trampled or killed by other hens. That was 5 years ago and i have never ever let a mistake like that happen again. hopefully you can learn from these mistakes too.

@mountainryder8 7 лет назад

Hey, no need to get defensive! Has anyone attacked you? I think you are giving some good advice from your experience.

@hsjdndd6081 7 лет назад

no but i posted this same thing on a different video and someone called me retarded and said i got it off of wikipedia so this time hopefully no one does that -_-

@albanymountainhomestead 7 лет назад

RWH German Shepherds your knowledge and experience is appreciated, but you come across a bit strong...hard lessons learned for sure...thanks for sharing

@Strevale 7 лет назад

People show their passion in different ways. Thank you for sharing your experience with us, and I think it will help a lot of us in the future. The problem with starting out a homestead from scratch is you don't even know what you don't know!

@donstor1 3 года назад

If you are gonna raise critters, you will have to be able to see dead ones sometimes.

@elunamoon8384 6 лет назад

I know people are giving tips on your broody hen, but I just realized that most of your hens have feathers missing from their back. Either its because you have too many roosters or one particular rooster who just mates mostly with one hen but I am suggesting that its more than one rooster because mostly all the hens have their backs bare. Please take note of this and try to cover it up a bit so they may grow their feathers back.

@seamus33cork 7 лет назад

You should move the bloody ones to there own place with no chicken wire floor so they can't fall through and other chickens won't annoy them I had 5 chickens go bloody this year and gave them each a desperate area one chicken went bloody again after her chics were about 6 or 7 weeks old

@eve2831 7 лет назад

Moma hens will steal eggs from one another. If they took eggs out of the milk crates its probable that most of them dropped to the ground and broke, the chickens would then eat them. You can move the upper hen down into the empty trash can to avoid getting more broken eggs. Also i mark the eggs in each nest with different colored markers. That allows you to know when the eggs get stolen. You'll have a better idea how old they are when they start brooding on different dates.

@Marlynnamm 7 лет назад

How often do you check your chickens

@timehasbegun5828 7 лет назад

Bri you are very inspiring 💚 Thank you God bless you and your family

@viniciusfranca2875 6 лет назад

Mari's Vegetable Garden rjehyflyfhyehdgkfyisbdd25373742/7397-537/52773::;69

@JAW88 7 лет назад

I have the same thing happening at my house with my ducks hatching chicken eggs and their own and a chicken hatching duck eggs and their own it's been fun. I have to remove the chiks from the duck when they hatch do she will continue to hatch her duck eggs. Wheewww

@Majorvideonut2 6 лет назад

I can't believe that garden... not a weed anywhere and no grass. I am jealous. Is that hay on the ground?

@Brifromscratch 6 лет назад

Yes, hay mulch.

@GaryHardin 7 лет назад

Not sure obviously from just viewing a vlog, but are you guys still following Justin Rhodes formula in moving those chickens?

@CJWalsh-ht9kw 7 лет назад

you are supposed to have 1 nesting box per 8 or 12 birds i cant remember

@alicelewis7261 7 лет назад

you need your broody hens in the barn it will be a safer place for them and the chicks once they are born.

@freelyfarmexploits8854 6 лет назад

Keep your broody hens in a separate area, keep records, numbers etc. Ideally broody hens should be lower down to ground in a vermin free area. Rats take eggs and the other hens are not too kind to youngsters either. I hatch mine totally natural under a broody hen, leave them too it just let nature take its way. I only observe and help if there's a problem.

@sweetlorikeet 7 лет назад

Honestly, broody hens change nests all the time - any nest with eggs is good enough for a broody hen. I've known folks who've had 4 hens all sitting on the same nest - sometimes squashing in together at the same time! I agree with some other folks in the comments, if you're going to let a hen hatch some eggs the top crates will be too high when the chicks hatch - also, the other hens will try and kill the chicks. You already know that little babies get bullied. Separation is really important for broodies and babies.

@OnePieceTavares 7 лет назад

Lol don't worry about the pecking, it doesn't hurt that bad unless its a rooster :P(got pecked myself today collecting eggs).

@LGNT 6 лет назад

Your farming very nice

@theresathreadgill1386 6 лет назад

You need to candle the eggs to see if they are viable!

@gerrymarmee3054 7 лет назад

Learning every day!

@pieterschwab8657 4 года назад

Don’t use sharpies.. use a graphite pencil instead, it stays long enough and doesnt affect the egg at all.

@colink4842 7 лет назад

Great Video. So sad about the chicks though.

@lynnhuff4238 7 лет назад

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@seamus33cork 7 лет назад

Also the first time one went bloody I candeled the eggs one week in and the next day she left them

@HeartinessApproach 7 лет назад

Some homesteads are able to walk out and see babies born without even knowing they had a broody hen. We have not been so lucky. Brooding is not so easy. Let us know what you will do different so we can do it right.

@Brifromscratch 7 лет назад

I put what I would do different in the video. :)

@HeartinessApproach 7 лет назад

I saw what you did in the video to mark the eggs and move them. That was great. But how do we keep the chickens from getting broody when we don't want them to be. We have experienced a very mean hen when she is broody so broody hens are not my favorite. Then we had a wonderful broody hen and we put eggs under her and she left them and they died. We have not had success. So fun to watch you be able to hatch. Love you videos.

@glendaruff125 7 лет назад

Now I'm confused too.

@lassie7777 7 лет назад

Need to separate out the broody hen from the other hens when she first gets broody. The other hens will kill the new babies.

@lynnhuff4238 7 лет назад

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@Lolab2002 7 лет назад

maybe you can move the broody hen to a safer location away from all the others so lower the risk of the chicks dying. Love your channel

@waqastv33 6 лет назад

I love animals

@jasiahmccullough7403 7 лет назад

Love you guys keep the hard worker I hope Dolly cafs soon

@marystone4154 7 лет назад

You can use a crayon and mark the eggs my mom did that in the 50's

@Aschoeneck21 7 лет назад

Marking the eggs seems like an obvious thing to do once you said that... learn something new everyday and sometimes that lesson is learned the hard way.

@williamchristopher1560 7 лет назад

I assume you don't know the day EACH of these eggs were laid. If that's the case, you then don't know when each egg will hatch, which could mean that youll have baby chicks running around while shes still setting on the nest, and possibly you might lose other baby chicks.

@jovicalukic8163 5 лет назад

i had something same happend to me onse all my hens were broody next day 50 chicks i got 50 CHICKS crazy right i sold all male chicks

@andrecruz3760 7 лет назад

That happened to me, I had a broody hen and then at the last two weeks they were all gone

@imedimed8025 6 лет назад

4:32 hahahaha I thought the chicken talking ... otherwise .... for the egg ... you can just put a point or small cross ... why mark the whole egg ... may be an excess of ink will affect the chick or the conomator too ... who knows ? may be Thanks for the video :)

@paradox7730 7 лет назад

That dead chick looked too little to have hatched I think the egg may have been pulled out of the nest and eaten by the hens

@jclk06 7 лет назад

Broody hens are so nasty yet so sweet

@waltersobchak7275 6 лет назад

jaycee koo crazy crazy moody take your hand off hens

@rileystanley1703 7 лет назад

Candle the eggs with a torch and see if there are chicks in them

@ImAlwaysR1ght 7 лет назад

And Riley means a flashlight for Americans. I just pictured a bunch of people taking a blowtorch to their eggs. Well done balut anyone? :)

@albanymountainhomestead 7 лет назад

Greentea lol...had the same vision

@beckijameson3844 7 лет назад

I may be American, but I love you Brits so much that I caught it immediately!

@cathymiles3306 6 лет назад

I would leave the hens on the eggs and don’t disturb them, nature will take its course. She probably got up at one point for food and water and went back and got confused.

@danuta. 7 лет назад

You should put all the fertile eggs on the ground nest. It looks like the chick you found on the ground fell out of the top nest and couldn't get back up to its mama.

@Brifromscratch 7 лет назад

It hadn't hatched yet.

@heatherd.9390 7 лет назад

The chick on the ground hadn't hatched? I am not wanting to sound snotty - I'm genuinely interested - so how do you know? I didn't see any shell lying around. The other two that you said "you killed", what happened there? It is very sad, but anyone that has gotten to know you thru your channel knows you would not have done anything intentionally. You are learning, so while it is ok to be frustrated, don't beat yourself up. Like you said, you know what you will be doing differently next time.

@angelaburns6526 7 лет назад

Recently we have had so much trouble with chicken snakes. they eat our eggs and our baby chicks. heartbreaking for me! we bought some ceramic fake eggs at the tractor supply and the snakes have been eating them. so we are starting to get ahead of it now. the snakes will steal the eggs right out from under the hens! do you guys have chicken snakes where you live?

@heatherd.9390 7 лет назад

What happens when the snakes eat the ceramic eggs? Do the snakes die? Although snakes can get large food INTO them, I'm not so sure it works the same at the other end!? Lol. Are there specific types of snakes you refer to as "chicken snakes" or are you calling any snake that eats your chickens' eggs that? I'm genuinely curious and hope this does not sound snotty or sarcastic. Thanks!

@angelaburns6526 7 лет назад

Heather D. Yes usually they die from eating the fake egg. Once in a while they spit them out. It is a particular type of snake. They are very large snakes. We found one trying to sneak up on our last baby turkey a few weeks ago and we're able to kill it. I have a photo of it but I don't know if I can post it here. They are very aggressive for a non venomous snake. They will strike at you if you happen to get to close. I live in Texas and they are very common here.

@heatherd.9390 7 лет назад

Yikes! Just as well that you aren't sure if you can post pics here, as I'm terrified of snakes, venomous or not! I would likely wind up becoming a meal if I ever saw one in the 'wild', because at the site of the thing, I'd likely keel over! That cannot be a very comfortable way to 'go' for the snake. Where I live in Canada, the only snake we get are garter snakes and I don't like them either. Southern Canada does get some rattlers, but nothing as far north as I am, which is near Edmonton, Alberta.

@1994abbygirl 7 лет назад

If the babies can't get to food or water the heat will kill them! My advice for broody hen's is moving them to a different place entirely with their eggs. But I can be anal about those kinds of things! LOL