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 ...

Lulu has gone broody, so my one source of fresh eggs has dried up. Going broody means a hen has stopped laying and won't leave her nest because she's focused on incubation -- even though Lulu's not ...

Last week, one of the hens refused to vacate the laying box. When approached, she growled like an electric kettle on the edge of boiling. Determined to get my end of the bargain, I reached under her ...

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 ...

A. A big advantage to having roosters is they serve as protectors of the flock. In a predator attack, the rooster is often the first one to get nabbed. However, hens can be perfectly happy and healthy ...

I am a poultry farmer in Kitengela and I noticed something unique my neighbour also a poultry farmer, was doing. Recently he had a broody chicken that had sat on eggs for the entire 21 days of ...