Hatching with Broody Hens: Part 3 Maximising Hatch Rates

This season we're going to follow Uno through her brood. We'll show you every point in the process from setting up the coop to her making the chicks independent. Along the way you'll see how we support her broody hens to keep them healthy as well as supporting the chicks that hatch.

In part 3 we cover:
What happens when the broody hen hatches.
How we maximise hatch rates by utilising an incubator in parallel
Introducing chicks to a broody hen

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