I’ve tried using a foster broody hen to raise chicks, and it can make brooding chicks easy. To use a hen to hatch eggs (or foster chicks), you first need a broody hen. We’ve heard of different things ...

The term broody might not be an everyday word used in the average person’s vocabulary, but for anyone who owns chickens it is a well-known poultry tendency. Broodiness is a behavior a hen can exhibit ...

Egg incubators, such as this Brinsea countertop model, offer another way to hatch chicken eggs if you don't have a broody hen. Now, on to working with broody hens. What follows is an adaptation from ...

Hatching your own chicks with a broody hen is an adventure that combines the wonders of nature with the charm of traditional farming. My year/old Easter Egger, Peach, decided she wanted a family of ...

At Easter, in Norway, tradition dictates that families should read murder mysteries; in Italy a dove-shaped rocket is fired for peace; and in Finland it’s common to plant a pot of rye grass as a ...

Tip to easily get those eggs from under a broody hen that is aggressive. Demo on getting pecked to show if it hurts and how ...

The free-range eggs were hatched by customers with broody hens A farm raising free-range chickens says it may ban cockerels after two of its supermarket eggs were hatched by customers. "The majority ...

A secretive hen scampered through hedges and undergrowth to find a hidden location 500 yards from her coop to lay her eggs. The bantam hen, named Raindrop, spent the past five weeks wandering out of ...

A woman has gone viral for giving her pet hen the gift of motherhood, after she showed signs she was ready to "be a mamma." On March 10, Gemma took to her TikTok account @gemmashaylee where she showed ...

A French artist, whose previous exploits include living inside a stuffed bear and navigating a river in a giant corked bottle, has hatched his first chick after spending three weeks sitting on 10 eggs ...