ALABAMA!!

[Tomtommom]

Sounds great...Let me know if I can help burn his face off. It would only cost me a stamp.

Maybe next year

Out of room now and getting too late in the season.

I'm going to have to step up my pepper growing for this man

 

[bamadude]

Maybe next year Out of room now and getting too late in the season.


I'm going to have to step up my pepper growing for this man

Lemme know when u are ready. I got ur back

 

[chickadoodles]

Just candled three muscovy eggs, they're developing.. but I have no idea how far along they are. Air pocket seems large and there's a big dark spot what I imagine to be an eye, surrounding by lighter dark blobness and some veins

I'm a cruel mama, poor muscovy was angry as could be at me.. but I have a broody chicken and needed something. Figured she can finish hatching 3 muscovy and be happy with that.

Momma chicken happily rolled those babies under her, as I placed them in the shavings for her. Muscovy mama will get over it, she's in the dogloo with another mama and they have atleast 20 eggs between the two. Mama 3 is sitting on 22 eggs by herself

Wow how nice to have that many broody's at one time! You are blessed!

 

[BexB]

I have planted, squash (for the hubby, I don't eeat it) okra, tomatoes, corn, beans,peppers, hot and bell,cucumber. And then I made a small watermelon patch. It's all small scale. I am practicing. And a few heads of cabbage, again I don't eat that stuff either.

 

[bamadude]

I have planted, squash (for the hubby, I don't eeat it) okra, tomatoes, corn, beans,peppers, hot and bell,cucumber. And then I made a small watermelon patch. It's all small scale. I am practicing. And a few heads of cabbage, again I don't eat that stuff either.

Sounds good. What type of corn, beans, and watermelons did u plant?

 

[Tomtommom]

Wow how nice to have that many broody's at one time! You are blessed!

Muscovy are amazing. They get broody once they have enough eggs. All I did was let them keep their eggs, once they were happy with the amount laid, they started sitting.

Apparently you can use them to hatch chicken eggs too

 

[bamadude]

Muscovy are amazing. They get broody once they have enough eggs. All I did was let them keep their eggs, once they were happy with the amount laid, they started sitting.


Apparently you can use them to hatch chicken eggs too

I watched a youtube video of a broody silkie hen that hatched turkey eggs. The poults were huge compared to her. I wish I could copy paste links

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Since I have been on BYC I have read that tons of people use any kind of broody to hatch any kind of egg they want to hatch. I had a chicken hatch turkey for me and she was a great mom. I have read that some hens hatched chicken, duck and keets all at the same time the momma don't care they just want babies.

 

[Orps]

How do you get a hen out of broodiness? Need to get 3 out of that state. Been kicking them out of the nest but the just go right back in.

 

[Tomtommom]

How do you get a hen out of broodiness? Need to get 3 out of that state. Been kicking them out of the nest but the just go right back in.

I always just stick eggs under them.. Easiest way.

Apparently you can break them by putting them in a wire floor cage, without nest/nesting materials. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/181289/how-to-break-a-broody-hen