Broody now!

[poultryfan73]

2 more days for lockdown and 5 more days till her clutch starts hatching!!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

I had 2 more to go broody on Friday. I have stopped counting.

 

[poultryfan73]

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HOLY COW!! I need 2 see picstures of this!

 

[incubatingisfun]

my hen let her eggs cool too much and killed them except one

 

[KingSpeck]

Hey everyone! I just had my EE go broody a few days ago and have been enjoying reading everything I can find about it since she is my first. Good luck to everyone on their hatches.

 

[poultryfan73]

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Yeah another hatching buddy we need a pic of ur broody EE

 

[calicokat]

Hey Kingspeck - me too! I'm getting some eggs for her on Saturday. How many are you sitting on?

 

[poultryfan73]

4 more days for me till her clutch starts hatching there will be pictures!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Below are pics of all of the broody hens and broody activity that has been going on at my small farm.

Not a good pic but you can see 3 broody hens in their boxes. I let another Buff out with her kids. They are walking around the chicken yard.

I have 3 other broodys that are in another chicken house but the light was too dark on yesterday to take pics. Will try to pose the other 3 broodys tonight unless I get 1 or 2 more broodys. Then I will have 4 or 5 more pics to post.

 

[baltimoreharps]

I can relate on a smaller scale, kuntrygirl.....now I have 4 broodies out of 13 hens!!

I'm getting a little overwhelmed with the whole situation and I think that we're going to need to do some moving into separate brooders since they are taking up both of the nestboxes. Anytime one of the non broodies tries to go up and lay, the broody hens are all over them.

Fortunantly, two are just about ready for lockdown, so they will be going into separate areas tonight.

You've got some pretty mommas there though!