The term broody might not be an everyday word used in the average person’s vocabulary, but for anyone who owns chickens it is a well-known poultry tendency. Broodiness is a behavior a hen can exhibit ...

I am a poultry farmer in Kitengela and I noticed something unique my neighbour also a poultry farmer, was doing. Recently he had a broody chicken that had sat on eggs for the entire 21 days of ...

If you are looking to place newly hatched chicks with a hen, you could save yourself some work and give them a more natural experience. Introducing chicks to a broody hen requires some guidance but ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new commercial pullet rearing system has been introduced by Performance Pullets, sister company to The Lakes Free Range Egg Co, which, it says, is producing better feathered, more active birds in ...

A focus on hen welfare and technological innovation helped a 200-hen diversification grow into a business producing and packing eggs from 2 million chickens via a network of suppliers. David and Helen ...

Please don't call Gabriel Byrne a "brooding" actor, he reckons such a description should be reserved for chickens. The Dubliner says that here brooding is a term used for hens: "A brooding hen is ...