Breeding Buff Leghorns

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OMG Hannah, you are so right. One of my females is very broody. When we got them in New York the ground was covered in snow and she was sitting on eggs in an outside egg box. Since they have been here I have been fighting her not to sit on eggs but last week I gave up and let her have 9 eggs. She puffs up about twice her size and growls at me if I go anywhere near any of the egg boxes. She hasn't drawn blood, but I'm afraid of her (LOL) and try to let her be.

I'm thinking about moving her to an outside brooder box that is big enough for her, food and water and chicks when hatched. How do you think she will react when I move her? Do you think that she will continue sitting on the eggs?
 
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OMG Hannah, you are so right. One of my females is very broody. When we got them in New York the ground was covered in snow and she was sitting on eggs in an outside egg box. Since they have been here I have been fighting her not to sit on eggs but last week I gave up and let her have 9 eggs. She puffs up about twice her size and growls at me if I go anywhere near any of the egg boxes. She hasn't drawn blood, but I'm afraid of her (LOL) and try to let her be.

I'm thinking about moving her to an outside brooder box that is big enough for her, food and water and chicks when hatched. How do you think she will react when I move her? Do you think that she will continue sitting on the eggs?

Hi Thomas,

When she is broody enough then she will continue sitting on the eggs.
Move her when it is dark so she would not walk away from her eggs.
If you are afraid she isn't broody enough, you can gave her other eggs when she is.

Good luck.....Arie
 
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OMG Hannah, you are so right. One of my females is very broody. When we got them in New York the ground was covered in snow and she was sitting on eggs in an outside egg box. Since they have been here I have been fighting her not to sit on eggs but last week I gave up and let her have 9 eggs. She puffs up about twice her size and growls at me if I go anywhere near any of the egg boxes. She hasn't drawn blood, but I'm afraid of her (LOL) and try to let her be.

I'm thinking about moving her to an outside brooder box that is big enough for her, food and water and chicks when hatched. How do you think she will react when I move her? Do you think that she will continue sitting on the eggs?

She should be fine Anne. Mine were crammed into an okd cat carrier and I moved them to a corner in the henhouse. "Where there are eggs, they will sit hahah"
 
So my mother was shocked to see 20 buff leghorn chicks in the brooder (in the kitchen no less!) "Hannah, I thought you told me the leghorns were having problems with fertility and thats why you had to set set so many eggs? Whoops
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The hatching bug has bit me
 
Any new updates on how everyone's flocks andhatches are doing? I have around 40 chicks running around. Three broodies are taking care of four chicks (dont ask me why but they are) and I have a white leghorn running around with five that hatched two days ago. Two more buffs are broody on the nest
 
It is nice to get the 50/50 sex ratio,and some like extra pullets for the eggs,but I find growing out all the extra promising cockerels,to be a great way to select the best and cull the right ones.The males that have the best buff color,especially in the main tail and sickles;are especially good for improving the stock. It takes a long time,close to a year for the males to develope full tail plumage.So culling males for the best buff ,can be a great selection tool,making lots of males an asset to the breeder.
 
At this point, the color on all the cockerels is very uniform. All a uniform light buff on all feathers-no white or black at all, no dark buff either. There is a lot more differences, in overall size, type, comb, etc, so, at least for now, I will be watching closely the ones that grow the fastest, mature quickest, have best size, etc. As they mature further, will look again at color and fine details of type. There is actually a lot of variation in the males, just not in their color-so, I should be able to select a nice one easier than if I had only hatched one or two!!
 
I can agree for the most part,but the fine points in color and type take a long while to manifest.Some cockerels just stop at a point,others go past them.Watch out for early maturity,they are almost always too small in standard large fowl.Look for the big shanked birds,they get the size and frame.
 
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