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Hi I've had quite a few broody hens over the years and not had much luck with breaking the habit. These days I just let them get on with it, making sure they have at least half an hour out of the nest box each day and removing any eggs they're sitting on. They get over it eventually.

I'm half way through day 18 and approaching lockdown. I candled the eggs this morning as the incubator was running at 37.8 (due to the heatwave - I can't keep the temperature down in the house) so I've turned the inc. temp down and it's back to 37.5 and wanted to see if any eggs were affected...

Hello everyone, I'm new to here but have kept hens for a few years now. I hatched my first-ever half dozen eggs last year, just after lockdown started in the spring and was totally eggstatic when all 6 hatched. I was less pleased a few weeks later when 5 of them turned out to be cockerels. The...