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 ...

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 ...

As both an aspiring writer and budding game designer, Nick spends most of his spare time picking through games that players adore and figuring out what makes them tick. Valheim has its fair share of ...

When it comes to breeding a coop of Valheim chickens, it all sounds fairly easy at face value. Incubate eggs, let them hatch, and watch your brood grow. However, before you get too heavily invested in ...

This is an experiment I conducted to hatch out quail eggs by using a broody chicken. The concept is the broody hens will sit on the quail eggs and hatch them out, so I decided to try this method of ...

The nesting material in our chicken nesting boxes was getting raked out leading to dirty and cracked eggs so this is how I fixed the problem. Also in this video, I show my latest experiment of trying ...

Once a hen lays a clutch of eggs, instincts take over. They constantly fuss over them, adjusting them just so throughout the day and rarely leaving the nest for more than a few minutes. Motherhood is ...

An often overlooked consideration when one is choosing a breed of hen is the extent of their natural inclination to sit on a clutch of eggs. Beatrix Potter summarised the challenges of brooding with ...