Funny that this thread has come up again. When I first posted here back in '08 I was a new chicken mama with young hens who had never gone broody. Well, that certainly has changed! I've had broody hens for the last 2 summers, both standards and bantams, and I have to say that, while I don't know if they're the BEST broody hens, the most persistent of my girls are my two Mille Fleur d'Uccles. Broody, broody, broody, stubborn broody those two are... they go broody in spring and stay that way until winter! And I don't dare try to deny them eggs, because my two started escaping the coop/run and hiding their eggs UNDER the coop when I pulled that stunt on them. But I must say, as much as their broodiness aggravates me, they do make fabulous little mamas.
