2015 broodies!!!

[chicken farmer]

Here's a hatch-a-long for broody hens in 2015,gotta broody hen? Post pictures,description,and what ever else you want on them. Rather it's a quail,pheasant,chicken,duck,goose,guinea,turkey,peacock,pigeon,swan,or whatever hen you may have wanting to hatch some eggs post her/them on here sitting,raising,and have fun!!

 

[Bushmansbliss]

Theres over a foot of snow on the ground here and its been well below freezing, I set 14 eggs figuring that some would be duds. ~1/2 didn't start to develop. I need to candle again to see how many are set to hatch on Saturday. Shes sitting on a mix of Pakistani Asil eggs.

 

[Bushmansbliss]

I set 14 eggs under her also, ~1/2 started developing same as the above hen. She is sitting on Pakistani Asil eggs too. Set to hatch net week sometime. Hopefully I will have chick pics to share soon.

 

[Bushmansbliss]

Her sisters must have liked her broody box also. I didn't realize they were laying in there until I went out to take this picture a few minutes ago.

 

[paris_r]

5 broody silkies in 4 nesting boxes, sitting on a combo of d'uccle, silkie and malay eggs


first set of eggs to hatch in the next few days, but man do they feel light! i think i will spray under the hen with a water bottle.

 

[Bushmansbliss]

"first set of eggs to hatch in the next few days, but man do they feel light! i think i will spray under the hen with a water bottle."

Can you please explain why you'd spray under her with a water bottle. I've never heard of this before. Is it to help with humidity?

 

[paris_r]

"first set of eggs to hatch in the next few days, but man do they feel light! i think i will spray under the hen with a water bottle."

Can you please explain why you'd spray under her with a water bottle. I've never heard of this before. Is it to help with humidity?

yes, just like you boost humidity in the incubator-especially if your eggs air pockets are too large. if they are too dry i will probably have to help them all out. part of the issue is the 5 hens keep rotating nests, so the experienced hens are not always taking care of the same eggs. what i can do instead is spray momma and have her help distribute the moisture.

 

[eggorthechicken]

Here's my broody cochin. She started sitting on eggs around Groundhogs Day. I believe there were 20. I'm not sure it she will be successful as it is so cold here and supposed to get down to -17 tonight. She's pretty persistent though so never know.

 

[paris_r]

i cheated a bit and took the near hatching eggs and put them in the incubator and gave her some the others were sitting on. today though 2 hatched out on my birthday under the older hen on the bottom left, i had to take them away since the rest of her batch is not even pipped and i fear she may abandon the rest or another chicken will hurt them when she goes to eat.

 

[loveMYbirds13]

Hi everyone
im new to this site and new to chicken and duck raising.

i have currently raised 17 chicken/roosters and 3 ducklings.

At the moment i have a broody hen and a duck who is laying eggs in the same nextnig box.
today i thought that i would take hem out because i thought that the eggs were no good as its ao cold out side and thought that the chicken/duck waant sitting on the eggs.
however iam very wrong and she has been sitting on them at night after all and after they are fertile.
so i quickly went back down there and put them all back.
do u think i have wrecked theis batch of eggs now because i took them out and then put them back under her?

All advice would be great