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Three weeks later and broody Squishy is so far being a great mama with her newly hatched chicks. She is very attentive to them. I thought it would be worth recording some clear similarities I saw with her and my previous good broody, and differences from the bad one. Alertness - this girl...

Part paranoia, part timing. If I could just put the eggs under her right now I'd do that. However, I don't want to move her along with developing eggs, and I might not be able to move my broody to her safe-to-hatch-in location right away. I don't want to keep her broody longer than necessary, so...

Don't think I've read someone mention about the cluck changing on chick hatch. I wasn't watching for that with my good broody last year. If that's an indicator of chick acceptance that's good to know! I've fired up my incubator for the 24h warm up it's supposed to have (or I think it's supposed...

I've been due a bachelor flock for a bit. I like roosters lol. Was sure last year I'd have a bachelor flock by now since I have three boys total, but wasn't expecting the two full brothers to be as bonded to each other as they are. They are inseparable. So instead cockerel #3 is just with his...

So after some discussion with my husband to it looks like I have a very extremely difficult decision to make. Oh so difficult. Fertile eggs now, or day-old pullets in about three weeks? 🤣 I guess actually it's not difficult...I've got the broody now, she is being just the sweetest lovey...

Well, after my last post learning towards broody breaking, I have to say my current broody is so far showing a lot more similarity to my good one I had before than the bad one. Maybe that bodes well? One of the things that was notable about my good broody Dimple was that she actually got more...

I am sorely tempted...but it really would be pretty hard to top what my little super mom Dimple was like. She never actually hit that point where she was done with the chicks either (whereas my other broody was done right after hatch). 10 months later I still sometimes peek into the coop at...

If a hen was raised by a broody mom and goes broody herself, is she more likely to mother the chicks well than if she was in a brooder? Or is much of the mothering behavior post-hatch just down to genetics again? My first round of chickens were all feed store pullets raised by me; two went...