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Has anyone had any luck with ordering day old chicks to imprint on a broody hen? I had ordered some eggs for my broody hen to hatch, but the company never sent them. So, after much waiting, I ended up having to order chicks. I am hoping that they will take to her as a mother, and her to them...

Hi, I have a Leghorn cross that went broody (yeah, I know, go figure!) and I'd like to have her hatch out some meat birds for me. Does anyone know where I can get some fertile Cornish eggs, or other good meat bird eggs? Thanks!

Ha! What a smart birdy. Now you'll just have to retrain her!

A non eating home! Wow! Now THAT is an extreme diet!

Actually, I just stole your friend. Sorry. I had to. Way too tempting.

I guess I did the opposite of what you asked. I was a vegetarian for 12 years. Then, I started keeping chickens and working at a farmer's market selling produce. I met a lot of ranchers. Now, I eat meat. But I only eat animals if I knew them or if I knew who raised them. I won't eat an...

I haven't tasted chicken pellets. But I have tasted raw oats and cracked corn. Not too tasty.

Quote: did you eat them and find out? No. But the birds I have eaten didn't taste like chicken food!

Pretty much anything is good in eggs. I've fed my birds a lot of marjoram when we had a TON of it. They loved it. But I don't think they would have tasted like it!

My birds love pumpkin and squash seeds. We eat so much winter squash including pumpkin that there's no way we could consume all of the seeds ourselves, so they make great chicken treats, especially in the snowy months when the birds don't have access to any fresh greens.

I don't think it will work. They will still taste like plain ol' chicken. Also, mine won't eat garlic. But, maybe yours will.

Quote: Really? You have chicken related programming on TV in your area? The only ones I can think of would be cooking shows, but my birds might find that traumatic! "So THAT'S what happened to our brothers!"

You feel so sorry for the brooder-raised chicks that you spend at least an hour each day pretending to be a mother hen sitting on the chicks so they can have the mock-experience of resting in a dark, cuddly, warm place like the underside of a mother hen. Ok, wait, it gets worse . . . the chicks...

Ok, so I couldn't wait to find out what you were talking about. It was too intriguing! So, I entered "Egg balance equinox" into google, and here's what I found out: http://www.snopes.com/science/equinox.asp Funny!

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