Hatching Chicken Eggs Naturally - Step by Step Guide

Step 2 : Place fake-eggs in a nest and wait

Place about 5 fake eggs ( for example pottery or rubber eggs) in a normal nest in you chicken coop.

Now:
WAIT! until one of your precious hens decides to be a mommy :)

you can be sure, that you have a broody hen when she:
- ruffles her feathers
- makes noises that remind of water in a bottle ( "glug glug")
- leaves the nest only for a few minutes a day and returns to the eggs very fast

- gets angry when you come near her ( she picks)

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