I left town for a few days, and when I got back, by broody hen had started brooding in a different nesting box with other non-fertile eggs. Her eggs were left with no heat for a couple days (I'm in Texas but it's been getting into the low 40s at night. They were left alone from about 14 to 17...
Apologies for not having my profile all filled out. I'm in Central Texas. This is just a story, no point, just getting it out there.
A few years ago I bought my house in the country, it came with a big sand box, 20x20, with heavy lattice on thee sides at least 10 ft tall, with sort of a...
I started a flock this year, and dropped a couple ceramic eggs in the boxes a while back to encourage laying. I've been getting eggs for about 3 weeks now. Today I send my son out to pick up eggs and he runs in and tells me there's a snake in the coop and one of the fake eggs is missing. Yep...