2009 is The Year of the Broodies....and ANOTHER One...(PICS)

[speckledhen]

Don't know, Robin! I've never had so many want to be mamas in such a short space of time. Glenda is on Day 17 now, Dusty on Day 2, Tux on Day 17 with no eggs, Shadow at four weeks old with her baby and I expect she'll go broody again before the year is over.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

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Maybe it's some mumbo jumbo with the alignment of the planets that we don't know about

Maybe someone should start a thread so we can tally up the broodies from year to year? That would be interesting..

Oh and I set 15 eggs under my two broodies today!

11 "should" be silkies and the other four I just put two green and two brown for the heck of it

 

[Chickenmaven]

I have had eight broodies - out of 24 hens. We let three of them hatch out chicks. There's only so much room in our coop... With the girls we do not want on nests, we spend alot of time putting them in the tractor, pulling them off nests, etc.

 

[lovemychicns]

This is my first experience with broody's. I let them lay because I wanted to see if the eggs are fertile for selling and I wanted to experience it just one time. Before work I went to check on the girls and found 2 chicks that hatched. I am so excited. I have one Buff Orpington that is determined to hatch Muscovy eggs. I even moved her to the other side of the coop and gave her a few eggs of her own so our female muscovy could sit on her own eggs without having to share. When I came back later she had moved back in with the muscovy hen. So funny. I can't wait to see how many more have hatch when I get home. Cyn some are from Jasper and my girls that hatched from your eggs. Sadly I don't have room to keep them so they are on the for sale page if anyone is interested. The 2 I saw today were all black with a yellow face, so cute.

Hugs
Karen

 

[shelleyd2008]

It is definitely the year of the broody! I have lost count of how many hens have chicks, I know I have 6 that are setting eggs right now...No wait, I think it's 8

There are I think 12 or 13 hens that have chicks, but I would have to do some serious thinking to be sure! Way too many birds, that's my problem!

 

[lovemychicns]

It's a sickness. We went to Southern States to buy some dog food and one of the workers started telling my husband about the 500 Rhode Island Red chicks someone ordered than canceled the order and they are not stuck selling them. Next thing I know my husband has purchased six day old Rhode Island Red chicks. They are so cute.

Karen

 

[Kung Foo Chicken]

9 broody hens and I think I have a 10th just starting. I'm not sure if I trust this last one a huge Jersey Giant because I refer to her as big foot because she crushes an egg every now and then.

What is funny is that the hen that hatched the D'uccle chicks and raised them started laying eggs again. A weeks later she is sitting on duck eggs and screaming whenever anything gets near. Two hens have gone broody twice.

 

[CarriBrown]

Are our girls all talking? I swear... I'm booting broodies off of nests left and right! Somebody lay me some breakfast already!

 

[gritsar]

*heavy sigh*

 

[Debbienmousey]

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I agree with you 100%! Somehow they know the roosters can't normally bug them while they're setting on the nest. (I actually have a rooster which has the nerve to hop into the nesting box and mate a hen which is trying to lay her egg. It is SO rude!)