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Her cochins are very reliable moms. She prefers to use the silkie/rock girl if she's broody at the time though, because she's fantastic. You haven't had as good a laugh as you will watching a little poofy chicken scolding 3 ducklings who just waded into a kiddie pool.

This is why my main chicken lady friend keeps a blue cochin hen, a splash cochin hen and a bantam partridge cochin hen. One of them is pretty much guaranteed to be broody from March-November. (We live in NH) With neighbors who primarily have EEs, leghorns and mixes of other breeds, she's...