Well I haven't done it I was just saying I read you could do that, but I am just sticking with trying to keep fake eggs built into the nest boxes.
How do you get a hen to take to chicks might I ask?
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I read on a different forum that if you bring a bx with a door built into the house if you stick like golf balls under the hen and keep her in the box, let her out once a day to get food and water like a hen would when shes broody it will stimulate her to become broody.
Does anyone know a good way to start getting hens to get broody and set I would like our Cochin Bantam to set soon or our Silkie hen to set soon but they are only laying eggs and abandoning them, I have tried to put fake eggs in there nest boxes to trick them into gathering eggs. Any ideas?
I have spoken with professionals at a competition for show chickens called the Harford fair, he stated that if you breed a regulare Barred Rock Bantam with a white Cochin Rooster you have a chance of getting a barred rock Frizzle.
There is no real good grass for the winter as most chickens tend to stick to there coups during the cold seasons, when the grass starts growing again during the spring then the grass you have already should be fine. Though Perennial fescues is a good year round growing grass that should work...
Hahaha, they get lazy if they don't scratch. I love to sit on my cousins swing set and watch them all clutter around scratching at the ground and leaves hunting for food!
Hahaha, he is an iffy chicken he lets you pick him up sometimes or sometimes he will run away from you. I love when he...
Of course, I love talking about chickens it is a great passion for me!
What kind of grain do you feed them, I normally spread some scratch grain in there yard during the winter so they have something to look forward to when they wake up and a filler to get them bigger. I noticed the filler...
Bantams tend to lay less then regular standard breeds, and my frizzle when she lays they are normally small like a Silkie bantams eggs.
How old is your Frizzle hen?
Aw, she is great!! We have a black Cochin hen, we call her Mrs. E (Mrs. Einstein)! as well as a barred rock that we want to pair with him to get some barred rock frizzles and a white and black Cochin bantams.