BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[Chicken Egg 17]

Maybe he never meant for us to taste test them either

 

[Beekissed]

Maybe he never meant for us to taste test them either

Actually, there are several places in His Holy Word that indicates we are indeed to taste test them, starting with this one..... "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything." Gen. 9:3

It might benefit you to read the Bible and find out for yourself what God feels about mankind eating animals before you make it a moral code you wish to follow in thinking the killing of animals as something somehow evil and cruel. God was the first to kill animals and those merely for their skins, but later He instituted a system of animal sacrifice that went on for thousands of years until the ultimate sacrifice of His only begotten Son was performed. This is a good time of year to study on the Bible and that sacrifice.

 

[jbkirk]

Actually, there are several places in His Holy Word that indicates we are indeed to taste test them, starting with this one..... "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything." Gen. 9:3

It might benefit you to read the Bible and find out for yourself what God feels about mankind eating animals before you make it a moral code you wish to follow in thinking the killing of animals as something somehow evil and cruel. God was the first to kill animals and those merely for their skins, but later He instituted a system of animal sacrifice that went on for thousands of years until the ultimate sacrifice of His only begotten Son was performed. This is a good time of year to study on the Bible and that sacrifice.

Indeed!!!

 

[stryker]

Bet you will love this!!! I had two broody hens hatch out chicks. They ended up to be around 8 chicks that hatched total. The question that I have is I took one crazy hen away from the chicks due to the chicks would run towards the other hen. They didn't even like the hen at 1 day old. So I took the hen away from the chicks and put them with the one hen. Fast forward 2 weeks and I have a hen that stands around the nest boxes and attacks me when I get the eggs, feed them , and even water the chickens. Just crazy. . She is worse than a mean rooster.

The chicks and the mother hen are separated.

 

[NanaKat]

Butchering hogs always meant headcheese (saus) and pork rinds and lye soap! Nothing was wasted.

Each hen that goes broody is now getting a clutch of chicks from the incubator. The broodie hen goes into a brood cage with ceramic eggs or golf balls. At two weeks, she gets chicks and bonds with them in the cage for a week. Then all are moved to the floor of the hen house. The fun pairings are the bantam hens with her clutch of 4 large fowl chicks.
I've not had a Cochin go broody yet. One looks like she might be thinking about it.

 

[alisar]

Moved some chicks to the ground today. Cockerel 31 days today - 3/4 White Cornish Roaster 1/4 Dark Cornish They can't see you if you don't move. My first chick of the season hatched 2/4/16 - 1 chick 49 days - pink zip tie 2/10/16 - 5 chicks 43 days - orange zip tie 2/16/16 - 8 chicks 37 days - yellow zip tie 2/22/16 - 10 chicks 31 days - blue zip tie 50% DC/50%WRC cockerel - 37 days Pure Dark Cornish cockerel 37 days

I'm drooling here. Great looking birds.

 

[DesertChic]

Bet you will love this!!! I had two broody hens hatch out chicks. They ended up to be around 8 chicks that hatched total. The question that I have is I took one crazy hen away from the chicks due to the chicks would run towards the other hen. They didn't even like the hen at 1 day old. So I took the hen away from the chicks and put them with the one hen. Fast forward 2 weeks and I have a hen that stands around the nest boxes and attacks me when I get the eggs, feed them , and even water the chickens. Just crazy. . She is worse than a mean rooster.

The chicks and the mother hen are separated.

The Kardashians have nothing on a broody hen in the way of drama.

I'm actually testing my persistently broody White Rock hen tonight to see if she'll sit on eggs in the makeshift nesting box I made for her in the isolation pen. If she's willing to, then I'll move 2-4 eggs under her to try hatching again, preferable Bielefelder eggs since they just don't seem to hatch well in an incubator. And just when I think I've got it all figured out...one of my Dorking-mix hens turned just as broody.

These chickens sure do keep me busy.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

I just broke one of my cornish hens, she went broody again- she's pretty determined! She's the only one of my hens that has gone broody and this has been twice for her. She's a sweetheart though, never tries to bite me, she just complains when I pick her up. She spent two nights in the broody breaker hen cage, and it looks like I've been successful. One day I will let her hatch some sometime, but not this year.
So my question is, is breeding broody behaviour out of your flock as simple as not setting eggs from hens that go broody?

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Well I am not to sure of ur question as but I would like to know is there a way u can breed the broodyness back into a breed with out changing its characteristics and look color and stuff like that

 

[gevshiba]

Well I am not to sure of ur question as but I would like to know is there a way u can breed the broodyness back into a breed with out changing its characteristics and look color and stuff like that

On this same topic, is broodiness inherited or learned? If I use a broody hen of another breed to hatch my SS chicks, will they be more likely to go broody?