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Excellent response. I should have added in my reply above that my broodies are Silkies. The Silkies have their own pen beside the garden. The babies are only around the main flock when mama feels it is safe to take them there. She will walk them into the main coop and around with the flock...

I keep mine in the flock as well. She knows far better than I do how to care for her babies

Once mine are committed to being broody, they rarely get off the nest at all. Maybe once or twice a day to eat, drink, and poop. They do lose weight and only one of mine will eat the corn or feed I put near the nest for her. I don't mess with my broody girls too much. They know what they are...

I haven't shipped any out, but I do sell them locally. I would be glad to ship some if you are interested in them. $1 per egg plus shipping.

They are all bantam size. They can cover six, but I usually try to keep them down to 4-5. We have one that is notorious for stealing eggs and bringing them back to her nest. I have caught her with over a dozen before. We have watched her go into another nest, pick up an egg, hide it...

We have bred and are continuing to breed Silkie/OEGB crosses just for this purpose. They have the sweetness of the Silkie and the game bantam combined. They are absolutely amazing!! Most of them end up with smooth feathers, a small crest, and dark skin. If you can find someone in your area...

I have Silkies and Silkie mixes also. Somebody is ALWAYS broody!

We have a Brahma that continually acts like she wants to go broody. She sits on the nest every single day.............. until my husband comes home and brings treats for them. Then she forgets about being broody until the next afternoon when she lays her egg.

I usually wait until they have been on the nest for three days before giving them eggs I want to hatch. Some hens will sit for a while, but not commit.

I've had this happen, and I cleaned them off as best I could without using water. They hatched into beautiful little Easter Eggers, no worse for the incident. Good luck!

So cute!!!!! Congrats!!

I certainly hope so! I've failed miserably with the last two hatch attempts. My Japanese Bantam eggs hatch great, but either there is something amiss with the breeding pair of Seramas I have, or they just don't like the incubator. My Silkie girl will give me the answer to that question. She...

Just gave my broody Silkie some Serama eggs. I hope she has better luck with them than I have had in the incubator.

I've got one that puts straw or grass on her back after she lays. Every single time. She's never gone broody. Just puts straw on her back. Weird!!

My frizzled Serama has been sitting on an egg and a golf ball for a couple of weeks now. I candled the egg and it was clear, so I took one of the EE eggs out of the incubator and gave it to her. Can't wait to see that little puff ball with her chick! I wonder if she will notice that her...

I thought the same thing until my Polish girl went broody. She was a FANTASTIC mom!

I have never had a broody do that, but I am super interested in finding out if your girl keeps sitting long enough to hatch and raise a staggered clutch.

I was just getting ready to ask the same thing! It looks like a great setup.

I have one that will completely quit if I move her, but two that will happily change places. I think it mostly depends on the hen. If she was sitting in a location away from the others, I would make her new nest area in a quiet, secluded place. Maybe a dog house or crate inside the coop...

I've got a big Brahma baby doing that right now. He was calling the girls over for a treat yesterday and when they got there, he had no clue what to do. He grabbed the treat and rushed off screaching like the devil himself was chasing him!