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Quote: The trend I see......you have too many silkies

Quote: One of mine was broody last year but she didn't have any luck. I've also had hatchery BR and brown leghorn hens go broody. I've come to the conclusion that the books just guessed and didn't ask these hens if they were broody or not...I've yet to find any particular breed that is not broody.

Currently I have 5 hens with chicks: 1 OEG, 2 OEGB, 1 Serama, and 1 Bantam cochin. Then I have another 16 broody chickens, 2 broody ducks, and 1 broody goose. The goose is embden, the ducks are a pekin and a rouen, and the chickens are OEGB, OEG, Serama, Bantam Cochin, or mixes of the above

My current broodies are 3 OEGB, 1 Serama, 2 Rouen ducks, 1 Pekin duck, 1 Runner duck, and 1 embden goose. Plus I have an OEG with 9 EE chicks and an OEG with 5 OEG chicks.....too much sitting going on around here!

New broodies this week are another OEGB and another OEG. Currently I have 1 OEG hen with 4 LF chicks, 1 OEGB hen with 1 bantam chick 2 silkie/cochin mixes 'sharing' 5 silkie/cochin X silkie/cochin chicks , and 1 d'uccles/OEGB hen with 5 silkies, 1 bantam cochin, and 1 mille fleur d'uccles (all...

Quote: That is SUPER sweet! My silkies love to set eggs but they aren't very good at it. Maybe 50% of the eggs they sit hatch when all eggs are fertile.

The most successful broodies would have to be my OEGB, they could probably hatch a pile of dirt if they were so inclined Currently I have 2 silkieXcochin broodies, 1 d'ucclesXOEGB broody, 1 OEGB with bitties, 1 OEG with bitties, and I think one of my bantam cochins is thinking about it...