Rural Gardening: Snake raiding my broody hen's eggs!, 1 by crabbycat

crabbycat wrote:
Yes, Mr. Snake is in Snake Heaven. No, I haven't candled them yet. How do you get a very, VERY, V-E-R-Y grumpy, broody hen off the eggs so you can candle them? I tried to move her once and she broke blood vessels in my finger by pecking me! She gets off the nest in the afternoon, I think I'll grab them then and go into our dark basement and candle them then rather than trying to do it at night. I'll let you know what I see! Here's one of my little "biddies" from my last hatch from our incubator last week. Isn't she precious?!