Broody mommas poultry show! Show me your momma's and her brood in this comp! Ends Sept. 27th!

[Weeg]

I’m not sure if this counts, but my black Bantam Cochin was sitting on two eggs, nothing developed, then I gave her another egg, also a dud, so I picked her up a couple babies, because at this point she’d been sitting over 4 weeks.

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Sunflower is the mama, with Cloud (lakeshore Egger) and Zoey (cuckoo maran).

This totally counts! She si so cute, she looks so proud! I had a broody duck recently hatch babies. Same kinda thing. I failed by letting her sit on a community nest, they sat for 3 months and nothing hatched. We assume because the mommas were fighting over the nest, and relying on each other to do important jobs and no one did it. Afterwards, the ducklings died fully formed in the eggs and the mommas tossed the eggs and smashed them in the run. We had to pick up a whole bunch of dead duckling carcases. The mallard, who had originally stated the nest, decided to try again. So I blocked access for her so no one could mess with the nest, and she hatched 3 babies! We were so excited after picking up smashed babies for 3 months! broodies are so fun! Avery

 

[Weeg]

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Buff Orpington. She sat on over 30 eggs (not all hers; they were all laying there) and 18 hatched. She was starving herself from the first day she set on them to the day she kicked them out of her feathers. It was so much fun to see her teaching her chicks to scratch and eat. This was her first season laying.

I love Buff mommas! This is so cute!!!! Our first broody chicken was a Buff, she had too clutches, and broods! I love this contest, thanks for entering!

 

[FuzzyCritters]

This is our BO. We gave her six barn mix eggs, and she hatched 2 chicks! Those chicks were the first chicks we hatched from our own flock, and we were lucky enough to get two pullets!

This is my favorite photo of her and a chick!

The other chick just wanted to hop up on her

 

[Weeg]

I love this!

 

[britesidefarm]

This is my 6 year old Frizzle Cochin hen, Charcoals, who hatched out a singleton around 12 weeks ago. Her chick is nearly as big as her now

 

[Weeg]

This is my 6 year old Frizzle Cochin hen, Charcoals, who hatched out a singleton around 12 weeks ago. Her chick is nearly as big as her now View attachment 2350294View attachment 2350295

I love the second picture! She has her mothers eyes!

 

[M-H-Fielding]

Here is my broody turkey, Gypsy, who decided it was a good idea to sit on a clutch of two fake eggs, two chicken eggs and ten turkey eggs. Only three hatched, LOL!
She is in category three. She hatched one little chicken, and a week later two turkey poults. They are almost nine months now.
The first pic was taken when the chick was hatched, and the other two a day after the poults hatched.

 

[Weeg]

Here is my broody turkey, Gypsy, who decided it was a good idea to sit on a clutch of two fake eggs, two chicken eggs and ten turkey eggs. Only three hatched, LOL!
She is in category three. She hatched one little chicken, and a week later two turkey poults. They are almost nine months now.
The first pic was taken when the chick was hatched, and the other two a day after the poults hatched.
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Ohh my goodness!!! This is so cute! I have never owned Turkeys, and honestly could never get past there bald heads, but in the last picture, she looks os proud! That is the most adorable Turkey I had never seen!

 

[M-H-Fielding]

Ohh my goodness!!! This is so cute! I have never owned Turkeys, and honestly could never get past there bald heads, but in the last picture, she looks os proud! That is the most adorable Turkey I had never seen!

Thanks! I was SOOOOOOOOOOOO surprised that she even was able to hatch anything, she is the clumsiest turkey I've ever had! She was also the wildest.

 

[Cinnamon Roll]

Here are my Buff Orpingtons: Blue, Pink, and Red. They went broody in May and hatched out 2 chicks each from our own eggs (EE rooster and BO or light Brahma hens) and some from my mom’s flock. Red was the best mama and stayed with her chick for 6 weeks, the other mamas got tired of mothering after 4.

The chicks are now almost 4 months old. Two seem to be half EE, half Orp. The orhers are a mystery.