Broody Hen Thread!

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FarmerBoy24

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Nov 27, 2010
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Hey,

Everyone! this will be a thread about broody hens! Post pics, tell stories, ask questions, suggest, ANYTHING!!
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GOOOOO!!!!!
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we are in the second 'broody' episode from one of our buff orpingtons....sigh....we don't have a rooster, so there is no chance for the eggs to hatch, but she doesn't know that! We collect the eggs during the day so she is just sitting on litter. I remove her from the nest as many time as I can, but who knows how long it will take to break her. the first time she went broody, it took 6 weeks!

my favorite part is when I open the nest box door and she puffs up and makes the horrible shrieking sound at me.
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I'll try to get a pic of her all puffed up tomorrow!
 
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Right now I have 2 broodies well 3 but one of them hatched her chicks a coulple of days ago. Under my Buff Orpingtion hen I have 2 dozen Splash, Cuckkoo, Golden Cuckkoo, and Blue Marans!, and under my other hen I have 1 dozen of BCM, Amerucan, Silver Laced Wyandotte and Olive Eggers. I can't wit for them all to hatch!!
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. Why don't you get some fertile eggs and let her hatch them?
 
I had a BA go broody so I gave her 12EE eggs to hatch. Shortly after that a silkie went broody. I gave her 4 EE eggs. The BA hatched six, one died at day 2, so a total of 5. The silkie hatched all four of the eggs she incubated. I was thrilled with her results.
 
I have a light Sussex sitting on 9 Black Copper Maran eggs that are due to hatch May 5th. This is her first time hatching and mine too so we are very excited to see what we get:)
 

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