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  1. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    when she thinks they are ready for it. They all have to recover from hatching first. Patience required. Hard, but do-able :D Congrats on a lovely clutch!
  2. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    hello @Jmcintosh23 - welcome to BYC :frow This latest clutch of mine lost one half way through hatching too; sad, but it happens. I have not had other hens or roos attack chicks, so I have little to contribute on why it might have happened to yours. Were they in everyone's favourite nest box?
  3. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    Look, there's a big wide world out there!
  4. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chicken-breed-focus-penedesenca.1140342/ and https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chicken-breed-focus-penedesenca.1491855/ have lots of info on them
  5. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    no apologies necessary - we all make assumptions. I'm lucky to have birds only 1 generation away from Penedes foundation stock, so FYI this is what they really should look like (there's quite a lot of mis-selling of this breed a/c to posts on fb).
  6. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I have 3, partridge plumage, and their eggs vary significantly in darkness and other qualities. The best one is still laying this colour despite having laid since mid Jan (I expect her to go into moult soon). Where did you read that they're considered a landrace? My understanding is that there...
  7. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I've got one of these too; she sat in a flower pot when I went on holiday, and hatched the single egg she was on there, and then the two of them lived out 24/7 roosting in a well concealed nest close to the house till the chick was 6 weeks old when a storm blew in to drench their nest, when they...
  8. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    None of my hens scream on the nest (thankfully!), while some growl and inflate when broody but not otherwise, so they look like myths to me.
  9. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I've found broodiness to be an individual thing rather than a breed (though I don't have silkies, which are notorious for it). For all sorts of reasons your pullets may have felt not ready last year, and I'd just leave some eggs in the nest if you want to encourage it this year.
  10. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    production breeds are a product of the last century, not more, and other breeds retain broodiness. For example, I have a Welsummer, a Norfolk Grey, an Araucana and a Penedesenca that have all brooded and raised clutches of chicks.
  11. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    the leghorn is definitely a boy, and a baby tree hugger He's 4 weeks old today. And these cuties are 1 day old
  12. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    how interesting! Many thanks for that information...I shall enjoy the uncertainty for a while longer then :D
  13. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    The chicks are 2 weeks old now and I don't think feather sexing works with leghorns at least: the feathers grew fast and long but this comb suggests a boy I think
  14. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    anybody here know if feather-sexing works with Braekels, Leghorns, or Swedish Flowers? If it does, the first two are looking like pullets while the third looks to be a cockerel
  15. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    No; turned out they were just infertile. But looking on the bright side, having one of each breed makes the chicks easier to differentiate, life will be easier for the broody Eve, and there'll be less pressure on space in the coops :) .
  16. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    It was a disappointing hatch - worst ever here in fact. Only 3 hatched (we're only a day over, but I'm not optimistic for the remaining 5), 1 each of the Braekels, Leghorns and Swedish Flowers. I hope to find out what the issue(s) were when she brings the chicks off the nest and I can do an...
  17. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    My 4 year old Norfolk Grey Eve started sitting on 8 eggs on Saturday 14th May; 4 Braekel and 2 Isabella Leghorn purchased as hatching eggs from a rare breed enthusiast nearby, and 2 Swedish Flower laid by my beautiful (also 4 yr old but never gone broody) SFH hen Venka. She's got a coop to...
  18. Perris

    Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

    I would use fake eggs - golf balls or anything about that size will do - and just leave them. You can continue to remove fresh eggs as they're added, until someone starts sitting. I don't think age plays much, if any, role in broodiness. I've got a 4 yr old who's never gone broody, and had...
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