Broody breeds

[MROO]

This is really what I want in a chicken breed
-Large breed for dual purpose meat/eggs
-Goes broody reliably
-Clean legged(Don't really care for feathered feet)
-Rose comb(better for winters in my region)
The Wyandotte meets most of this critea but not sure about broodiness?
I have one Wyandotte and she has never gone broody.

Have you thought about Jersey Giants? They were originally developed as a dual purpose breed, with the intention of replacing the turkey. They take a little longer to reach full weight ... but that final weight can be pretty impressive. I've only got one at the moment (she's a Kindergarten dropout!) but so far, she's just about the sweetest pullet I've met, and I'm told they'll go broody, given the chance and some encouragement (a quiet nest box with a fake egg or two.) I'm seriously considering acquiring a roo next summer. They're a US developed breed, and endangered to boot and I think it would be fun to add them to my Nankins. Side-by-side runs with really BIG black chickens and really tiny red ones ... that ought to make for an interesting set-up!

 

[SurferchickinSB]

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• SurferchickinSB
• Jul 20, 2019

March of 2018 my wife and I got 8 hatchery stock buff orpington 1 day old pullets from Family farm and home.
We wanted buff orpingtons because they are known to go broody.
Well apparently hatchery stock buff orpingtons don't go broody because we have had them 1.5 years now and no broodys.
We have used Silkies before as broodies but we want a large breed chicken that goes broody often.
We had a barred rock hen go broody in October of last year 2018 and she hatched out a buff orpington pullet.
It was ironic because we got the buff orpingtons hoping they would go broody but it was the barred rock that we didn't expect to do it.
Well the barred rock hen didn't go broody this year.
So we are looking for alternatives broody hens.
We have heard large fowl Cochins are 2nd to the silkie as the best broodies.
We have never had Cochins.
Anyone here have advice or experience with them?
How about any other large fowl breeds that go broody often we should consider?

Marans, my Black Copper Marans, so broody! I finally broke down and gave her 2 chicks that I picked up one morning on my way home from the beach and gave them to her before she killed her self! I could not break her of it, all my others quit after a week or two. My Orpingtons haven’t been broody at all

 

[SurferchickinSB]

I had one Wyandotte for about 3 years, never went broody.

Mine never has either

 

[Criticalicious]

Try getting your next birds from a breeder or someone whose chickens go broody reliably, rather than a hatchery. You may get better results.

 

[MROO]

Most of the bantam breeds make great mothers and fathers, too. My direct experience is with Nankins, both single and rose comb, d'Uccles, Old English Games, and Sultans. They have all raised standard size and bantam birds for me, sometimes in mixed flocks. I usually remove the cockerels before they get bigger than daddy roo, to avoid accidental injuries.



This photo shows my Booted Bantam Mille Fleur pair, with the standard size Crevecoeurs and one standard size Easter Egger they raised from eggs.
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@ConnieA - This is a bit off-topic (sorry OP!) but you wouldn't happen to still have RC Nankins, would you? I'm looking to tighten up the combs on mine and could use a new pair - or possibly even a single cockerel - to stir the genetics up a bit. If you do, could you please pm me?

 

[pepe1]

I had 2 Black Austrolops go broody this year and hatch 17 chicks from 20 eggs.

 

[bigz1983]

I know this is a older thread but I would like to update.
Our buff orpingtons and black australorps still have not went broody they are over 2 years old now.
We have a barred rock hen that went broody in October of 2018 and took a almost 2 year break she just went broody again a few days ago.
We bought 10 large fowl cochins from a breeder back in early May.
2 of them ended being roosters.
We ended up with 3 barred, 3 splash and 2 blue cochin pullets.
We heard they go broody and we are hoping they go broody next year when their adults.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I know this is a older thread but I would like to update.
Our buff orpingtons and black australorps still have not went broody they are over 2 years old now.
We have a barred rock hen that went broody in October of 2018 and took a almost 2 year break she just went broody again a few days ago.
We bought 10 large fowl cochins from a breeder back in early May.
2 of them ended being roosters.
We ended up with 3 barred, 3 splash and 2 blue cochin pullets.
We heard they go broody and we are hoping they go broody next year when their adults.

Every Cochin I have had has gone broody, so your odds are good for getting multiple hens.

 

[bigz1983]

Every Cochin I have had has gone broody, so your odds are good for getting multiple hens.

Cool.
The 2 that ended up being roosters are blue.
I think that will make some cool looking color combos next year when they hatch chicks.
Blue over blue, barred and splash.
The blue over barred will be sex links.
I wonder what blue over splash will look like?

 

[FuzzyCritters]

Cool.
The 2 that ended up being roosters are blue.
I think that will make some cool looking color combos next year when they hatch chicks.
Blue over blue, barred and splash.
The blue over barred will be sex links.
I wonder what blue over splash will look like?

In the blue x splash combo, half the chicks will be blue and half the chicks will be splash.
In blue x blue you will get this: 50% blue chicks, 25% splash chicks, and 25% black chicks.