Hey, Everyone! this will be a thread about broody hens! Post pics, tell stories, ask questions, suggest, ANYTHING!! GOOOOO!!!!!
we are in the second 'broody' episode from one of our buff orpingtons....sigh....we don't have a rooster, so there is no chance for the eggs to hatch, but she doesn't know that! We collect the eggs during the day so she is just sitting on litter. I remove her from the nest as many time as I can, but who knows how long it will take to break her. the first time she went broody, it took 6 weeks! my favorite part is when I open the nest box door and she puffs up and makes the horrible shrieking sound at me. I'll try to get a pic of her all puffed up tomorrow!
Quote:Right now I have 2 broodies well 3 but one of them hatched her chicks a coulple of days ago. Under my Buff Orpingtion hen I have 2 dozen Splash, Cuckkoo, Golden Cuckkoo, and Blue Marans!, and under my other hen I have 1 dozen of BCM, Amerucan, Silver Laced Wyandotte and Olive Eggers. I can't wit for them all to hatch!! . Why don't you get some fertile eggs and let her hatch them?
I had a BA go broody so I gave her 12EE eggs to hatch. Shortly after that a silkie went broody. I gave her 4 EE eggs. The BA hatched six, one died at day 2, so a total of 5. The silkie hatched all four of the eggs she incubated. I was thrilled with her results.
I risked life and limb to get this shot earlier. She has 11 chicks total. 2 Cochins and 9 Faverolles. I aslo have one trying to go broody. If she is still setting on Fri. she will get however many faverolle eggs I can collect out of 2 girls and 12 BCM eggs that I am getting.
Juat a heads up-- probably not many people posting to this thread because of this one https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=457488
my RIR hen who just hatched chicks 3 months ago went broody friday AGAIN! so, i was quick to act and she is setting on 9 eggs and 19 days to go. whoo hoo!!
I have a light Sussex sitting on 9 Black Copper Maran eggs that are due to hatch May 5th. This is her first time hatching and mine too so we are very excited to see what we get
Quote:I love broodies WAY more than incubators. My silkiexaustrolop hatched ALL 1 dozen eggs! a couple of days ago. When your hens go broody do you separate her from the rest of the flock? or just keep them together?
