Best broody breeds.

[LegbarMama]

Do legbars or BCMs tend to go broody at all?

I have 2 legbars and one is broody now. Shes been broody for more than two weeks and she aint giving up!

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Are you getting any FBCM’s from Murray McMurray? If so, that’s where mine came from and they’re broody machines!

I got my 2 hens from a local breeder but I’m getting a rooster from McMurray

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Hope I get at least a few broodies. My current chicks are 9 1/2 weeks old and I have 5 hens that have yet to go broody but golden comets aren’t known to be broodies, and my Plymouth Rock hen I knew would eventually go broody passed to coccidiosis.

 

[NatJ]

I know silkies are one of the number 1 broody breeds, but I know it’s extremely hard or expensive to get silkie hens or pullets so I wondering what some other good breeds are to hatch some eggs, preferably standard breeds but either way.

Breeds I've had that went broody:
--2x Red Shouldered White Yokohamas from McMurray hatchery
--Dark Cornish (standard size) from McMurray hatchery
--White Laced Red Cornish (standard size) from Ideal Poultry
--White Laced Red Cornish Bantam from Ideal Poultry
--Spangled Cornish Bantam from Ideal Poultry
--Wheaten Old English Game Bantam (OEGB) from Ideal Poultry
--Red Quill Old English Game Bantam from Ideal Poultry
--Millie Fleur Old English Game Bantam from Ideal Poultry
--Black Tailed Buff Japanese Bantam from Ideal Poultry
--Indian Red Jungle Fowl from Ideal Poultry
--Buff Chantecler from Ideal Poultry

There may have been a few more, but those are the ones I can easily remember.
Ideal has dropped a few of the bantam breeds from their list since I bought those.

Some I broke their broodiness, others I allowed to set on fake eggs and then got them to adopt & raise chicks for me (I didn't have a rooster at the time, so no fertile eggs.)

I cannot say how likely it is for other hens of those breeds to go broody, just that one or more per breed did for me, and I had no more than 3 of any kind.

The bantams had to be ordered straight run, but I was able to buy sexed pullets of all the others.

 

[Batwell]

Do legbars or BCMs tend to go broody at all?

I’ve had a legbar go broody, a silky/legbar cross and also BCM. Everybody here seems to go broody (except my guineas ... have to raise those under broody hen!)

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

I’ve had a legbar go broody, a silky/legbar cross and also BCM. Everybody here seems to go broody (except my guineas ... have to raise those under broody hen!)

 

[myluckychucks]

Any and all bantam hens go broody at some point.

I've had bantams for 35 years and they don't all go broody eventually, just certain breeds and maybe they're crossbred offspring.

 

[Vicker]

By far, Buff Orpingtons are the breed that will definitely go broody and are the hardest to break. I've got one right now that is sitting on nothing for days. They will sit there until they die if I don't force them out every once in a while. They will go right back. I have to put them in a separate cage with nothing to nest in for days in order to break them. I have used colored bands to tell them apart. It isn't always the same one, I discovered. I stuck day old chicks under one and that snapped her out of it. She was a good mother hen.

 

[CNT]

Buff Orpingtons have always been my most insistent setters until we got a group of Black Australorps. BA are supposed to be ambivalent to setting. Mine are even more broody than BO. And last fall I purchased 4 BA to start my “in town” flock. They will definitely be broody too. I set a pile of eggs down & one of my girls immediately walked over, sat down, and stuffed the eggs under herself. And then a few days later my son went to see the neighbors’ chicks with his favorite girl, & she jumped in with the chicks, pushed then under her, & made a HUGE fuss when he pulled her off. It may be that show quality isn’t broody, but both my flocks’ BA get very broody.

 

[springchicken66]

I don't know about legbars, but I think the BCMs do go broody a lot.

I have had BCMs for years and they have never gone broody ????