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!
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?
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
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).
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...
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...
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.
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.
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
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
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 :) .
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...
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...
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...