How to make your Asil/Hen to properly brood eggs

Alot of new fancier worry about their first time laying pullet or even breeder hen is not going to brood eggs and have wasted whole clutch.This is normal for a young first timer hen.There are several reasons to it. if your are having a setup where there are older hens with chicks normally first time layers go broody when they hear the chicks sound.But you need to keep one point in mind that you cannot simple make a hen go broody.This is a natural instinct and the hen mostly goes to brood by herself.Another question is that sometime the hen gets broody sits on eggs for few days and then abandon the eggs.I shall provide you some tips in order to properly make you hen go broody and incubate eggs.

1) If your hen does not go broody for the first time, It will start laying again soon.It is better to have an incubator or place the eggs under another hen.

2) Your hen will sit at the same place where she lays eggs, so put dummy eggs underneath her,leave it there for 3-4 days then replace the eggs with real eggs.

3) place your pullets near a hen that is with chicks so that it will have an instinct to raise chicks as well.

4) once your hen is incubating do no disturb here, cover her area to discourage leaving for food treat when it sees you feeding other birds.

5) once you have placed the eggs and the hen is seriously sitting on eggs, then move her to new location at dark very carefully.Cover her nest with black cloth, and slowly move it to the new location or cage that is covered from all around. cage should be big enough so that hen can get up eat and drink. After a day or so take her out to poop.Once she is done with stretching and other, if she finds her way back to the nest well and good otherwise you will need to catch her and place her back.After 3-4 days it shall be fine.
I shall update you in the next article how you can make you own dummy eggs.


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