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Broody report! What's your broody count? Out of 20 Black Java hens, this year we have 11 broody's! :eek: Two momma's already hatched their clutches - 1 Auburn chick and 7 Black Java chicks - I am beginning to think the Auburn roo isn't doing his job - was hoping for a few more auburn chicks...

Sunday, May 11th is the Rare Breed show at Garfield Farm and Inn Museum at LaFox. Tim from Museum of Science and Industry will be there with Black Java chicks! Can't wait! Anyone else from here going? Need to add a new cockerel to the flock. It's been 4yrs now with the same cockerel line...

It's time to get our flock a new leader..... Anyone in Illinois have a Black Java cockerel that needs a new home? Our current model has become a bit too rough with our Black Java hens. There's 12 hens and he's not very gentlemanly, shall we say. I'm tired of having my girls being bullied by...

Of the 4 broody Black Java's in our flock of 6 hens this spring, we have 14 chicks with 1 egg remaining under one hen. If the egg hasn't hatched by morning, I'll put it in an incubator so Momma can tend to her chicks. Two hens are 'timesharing' their chicks. Both sets hatched about the same...

Curious note about Java's and broody behavior.... Our Java's are now 3yrs old. So this is our third year with broody Java's. Curiously enough, each year, the SAME hen starts off the broody season - and she's consistently starting the week AFTER the Garfield show! It's getting so I'm...

My brooder is full of Java chicks, my grow out pen is over-capacity with more Java chicks AND I've got a batch of meat chicks growing out in our barn. So, while I attended to see our neighbor's (rare horse breed) - I kept a WIDE circle away from Tim's fabulous little chick pens! As always, a...

Anyone attending the Rare Breed Show at Garfield Farm in a week? If I go, I'll come home with more chicks...that might be a bad thing, unless I build another coop in the week between! LOL! Hmmmmm, I think I've got some plywood around here.....

Magic Chicken, I've got a match to your 'mystery' Black Java chick! We've gotten a few Black Java pullets with seriously overly large shanks (yes, they're laying, so I know they're girls!) - as well as a cockeral who didn't develop a comb or wattle until all the other young males were...

Or we've who owned Java's for a while, come on here and are disappointed to see the 'I want 'em but won't go do my own research to find them, tell me where to go' approach. Or questions about Auburns and Mottled and variations that don't interest me. Java's ARE a wonderful breed...as I watch...

Not yet here - but had an interesting find in the boxes yesterday. Generally, there's eggs in two of the three nest boxes - have 6 hens, and get anywhere from 3-6eggs/day - and have all winter long. But yesterday, I found ALL the eggs laid in a 'nest' on the floor in a corner?! Someone...

Look what I found in my incubator...intentionally set 7 Black Java eggs from our flock in a Brinsea mini. 5 hatched, 1 was infertile and 1 died about 17days old. Here's a picture of just two of them peeking out from under their Brinsea Ecoglow 50...I last used this ecoglow with 25...

I think I need a new Black Java roo. Last spring, I again picked up 6 chicks from the Garfield Farms Rare Breed Show. Wouldn't you guess, I got 5 cockerals and one pullet?! We had to make a selection at about 16wks, as the raging hormones were just too much to bear. And I'm afraid I picked...

He's very handsome - hope someone will be interested! I've got 4 known BJ cockerals out of 12 chicks. As some are still young, it's still hard to tell. Breaks my heart, but I'm in need of pullets not cockerals. Unless our rooster, "Roaster" keeps figting with my spouse....then I'll only...

Weldcome to Java's! Have you checked for breeders on the Java Breeders of America website? (www.javabreedersofamerica.com) I've not had to use the listing before, but I know folks who have. Welcome!

Java's are so funny! Our rooster, for some reason inexplicable to me, has determined that the water hose is evil, pure evil! And he chases all the hens FAR away from evil, evil water hose! So today, I fill up some tinfoil pie plates (the disposable ones), as our chicks are tiny and I...

Heat-related: Anyone else feeling really badly for their Black Java's? I know their feather color causes them to absorb MORE heat....and when it's THIS hot, obtaining relief is just so not in the cards. I put a low container full of cold water in the run - they didn't get the point of it...

I got brave. I had to know what was in those last remaining three eggs under broody#3! Read and read and read under the incubating section of the forum - and learned how to float test (inconclusive) and how to candle REALLY well. What would we do without the internet?! One egg was never...

Newest additions to our flock! Two of three proud new Mom's pictured - Six of the seven hatched chicks pictured here - can you count all the penguins?! My biggest quandry at the moment is what to do about the remaining 3 eggs under Mom#3. She's not exactly the brightest brain in the...

She did it! Our BJ "Tiger" is now a Mom! (photo at end of story) She has 4 eggs under her - two have hatched (one 6/19 and one 6/20) and one is unzipping right now! Which leaves one to go!!! We had a quick weekend trip to take just after Tiger began sitting. Thankfully, I had marked her...

Here a broody, there a broody, everywhere a broody broody! Waited for our 14mo old BJ hens to go broody. They didn't. Went to Garfield Farm and got 5 BJ chicks from Tim and Bill. Was set for the year! Wohoo! Two weeks later - got a broody. One week later - got a second broody. Last...