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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bagpipers claim world record with AC/DC's 'It's a Long Way to the Top' House poised to vote on a bill to end the record-long ...

Sisters who placed five supermarket duck eggs under their "broody" pet hen were left shocked when two hatched. Cathryn Archer, 45, from Kinross-shire, Scotland, said the bird - called Comet - had ...

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 ...