I have 2 broodies, one is an easter egger and one a cochin bantam. The easter egger has sat on a cluth of shipped eggs that all failed. today would have been day 23, the cochin bantam has been broody for roughly 1-2 weeks. I am going to buy some 1 day old cream legbar chicks to sneak under one of them either tomorrow or monday depending when they hatch. The EE has never hatched chicks and is still a pullet, she seems a bit more feisty as a broody than the cochin bantam that is very docile and 2 years old, the cochin bantam has also previously hatched some of our own eggs when we had a rooster.
Basically i was wondering which one i should give the chicks to and which to break? I would have to break the EE and move the cochin banty into the broody coop (in which the EE currently is, the cochin bantam is on a nest, in a card board box for easy movement, in her own coop that she shares with 3 other bantam hens). The chicks would ultimately be introduced into the flock of 3 LF hens that the EE is technically part of.
What do you think?
Basically i was wondering which one i should give the chicks to and which to break? I would have to break the EE and move the cochin banty into the broody coop (in which the EE currently is, the cochin bantam is on a nest, in a card board box for easy movement, in her own coop that she shares with 3 other bantam hens). The chicks would ultimately be introduced into the flock of 3 LF hens that the EE is technically part of.
What do you think?