broody hen

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broody hen - a domestic hen ready to brood

brood hen, broody, setting hen, sitter

biddy, hen - adult female chicken

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Still, you're not guaranteed a broody hen from a heritage breed, or a non-setter (a hen that won't go broody) from a modern breed.

Hatch Eggs with a Broody Hen: From proper preparation to caring tor a sitting hen, here's the egg-xact information you need to hatch chicks the traditional way

I might as well have asked a broody hen to explain the origin of the egg - you know, the old conundrum about which came first.

Food for thought in our crusty old blackberry pie of a town

They'll remember the broody hen under the table, lambs in the living room or the orphaned calf by the fire.

Lessons in life amid all the chaos; THE YORKSHIRE SHEPHERDESS

Collecting that warm egg (watch you don't get your arm pecked off by the broody hen), cracking it into the frying pan, even the colour of them is more vibrant somehow and the taste?

Warm eggs and cold, cold reality down on the farm; HELEN ELLIOTT'S monthly dispatch from the family farm in County Durham is a tale of the swooping ups and downs that flow from keeping chickens

If chicks are hatched and raised by a broody hen, their mother will take care of the issue.

Pasty Butt in Baby Chicks

A broody hen will fiercely guard her clutch of eggs and her chicks after they hatch.

Chicken & the egg: incubators eased work of farm wife's chore

Kelly A One solution is to put some fertile eggs under your broody hen so she can hatch them out.

PDSA vet IAN FLEMING answers your questions

Also, for the first time in years, I've got a broody hen sitting on some fertile eggs that I bought at a show, and I'm hoping that she can hatch a good clutch of chicks.

How could I raise something from birth and then take it to slaughter? The circle of life is never ending when you're rearing livestock, and our columnist is facing a challenging week

AWOMAN has been reunited with the broody hen she lost when it made a nest in a tractor which she then sold.

WALES: Broody hen - and chicks - return home

There were bantams, eight or nine guinea fowl and a broody hen and her little babies.

RAIDERS' FARM KILLING SPREE

Backyard inventor Gyro Gearloose is distraught that his broody hen has been trying for months to hatch a doorknob.

DISNEY MADE ME

Poultry droppings will vary depending on diet, weather, cecal dropping, broody hen dropping and the health of the bird.