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

[Chickenaddict]

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I'll send you one!

I could send half a dozen, and I'd still have too many!

I have broody ducks, guineas, and button quial too. It is definitely the year of the broody!

Uffdah! Thats alot of broodies!!! Just when i was getting used to more than a dozen eggs a day!! Can't beat a free incubator tho so i just keep feeding their habits. After this past winter having a broody hen with no eggs for 4 months just about killed her and me so I decided its just healthier to let them do what they want.... Dh doesn't have a clue i just set some eggs under another broody, I think i may end up in the chicken coop when this season is over .

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I could send half a dozen, and I'd still have too many!

I have broody ducks, guineas, and button quial too. It is definitely the year of the broody!

Uffdah! Thats alot of broodies!!! Just when i was getting used to more than a dozen eggs a day!! Can't beat a free incubator tho so i just keep feeding their habits. After this past winter having a broody hen with no eggs for 4 months just about killed her and me so I decided its just healthier to let them do what they want.... Dh doesn't have a clue i just set some eggs under another broody, I think i may end up in the chicken coop when this season is over .

We have so many birds that even with all these broodies we are still getting about a dozen eggs a day! I really need to cut down on the number of birds I have, but it's so hard deciding which ones I can part with!

 

[speckledhen]

Shelley, I know the fencing you mean, but we have tons of predators here. We use it all the time between pens to keep the roosters from hurting themselves against the welded wire.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Well, it was a thought anyway.

We're lucky, my dad has a dog that he keeps loose that hates anything that doesn't belong here. If she could fly I wouldn't even have to worry about hawks. Hope you get it figured out.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Great... I think my third silkie has decided to be a mama

So, I just gave her 4 eggs that were under the other two - 2 brown, 2 green. Let's see how it goes...

 

[speckledhen]

This is crazy with the broodies! I may have to build a coop for only broodies and babies if this keeps up.

 

[speckledhen]

One of Glenda's eggs is pipped! Let's hope she doesn't smush this one.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Hatching vibes going your way speckledhen! Go Go Go Independence Day babies!

 

[EweSheep]

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She could have been clumsy at best or lost her balance after sitting for so long! Eventually she will get it!

 

[jeaucamom]

Hey Cin!!

We have 7 broodies right now at the last count. In fact I lost my only wheaton marans last week due to the heat and those DUMB hens not eating or drinking enough. This has been going on for weeks. We collect the eggs everyday so no chicks. How long is this going to go on???????

In a spurt of brilliance, the day after Summer the marans died, we threw all of them out of the coop and closed the doors. So all my chickens found somewere else to lay or they went on strike, not sure which... but I went from 3 dozen a day to only 5 eggs the last few days.... even though the doors were closed only one day!! Ugh!!