BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[Chicken Egg 17]

Lucky I can't even try and get one of my hens to go broody

 

[varidgerunner]

I have broody hens on top of broody hens here. Literally.

 

[dan26552]

I have broody hens on top of broody hens here. Literally.

 

[DesertChic]

This is interesting, from: http://grcp.ucdavis.edu/publications/doc20/ch2.pdf
Can you imagine the looks on people's faces if the chickens at the supermarket were replaced with these?


If these were the broilers, can you imagine what the layers looked like under the feathers?????

Looks like those funny rubber chickens they sell as dog toys.

Seriously though, this is why I have no problem with growing my birds out longer. It gets a little noisy around here with all the young crowers, but starting at 18 weeks I've got nice meaty birds.

 

[DesertChic]

I had another one hatch today

Congratulations! I admit that I'm a little envious. My eggs are in lockdown, and although they're wiggling all over the place, no pips on day 19. It's just past noon and I must've checked those eggs two dozen times already. I can't get a darned thing done when I have eggs on the verge of hatching.

 

[DesertChic]

I've got the world's happiest broody here. She was very busy doing "whack-a-mole" to get all 24 chicks tucked under. There's 1 LF and 23 bantams.



And yes, I said I wasn't getting chicks and here I am getting chicks.

My broodiest White Rock hen just went broody again. I'm trying to keep her comfortable so I can sneak some newly hatched chicks under her in the next day or so. I LOVE how a broody hen raises those babies!

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Ya I had another one hatch this morning and two more eggs in the bator

 

[Kassaundra]

Ya I had another one hatch this morning and two more eggs in the bator

 

[Kassaundra]

My littles got their first taste of offal today ............................... they weren't impressed yet. Chicks and new food

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

I had them outside yesterday and they didn't seem to enthused because they every time they couldn't see me they screemed at the top of there lungs and when I let them out of there little thing they followed me all over the place