Broody

[jed2012]

i would love a broody!

 

[LeJeune1]

My Cornish Bantams and Dutch Bantams do it all the time!

 

[LeJeune1]

The Dutch are much friendlier.... the Cornish are equally good brooders and mothers- - not so friendly, not so pretty, but can cover more more eggs than Dutch.

 

[Nomibear]

Well, the broody leghorn did it! kind of....
Monday morning ( a day early) i found this! SO CUTE!!!


On the down side. When i got home that evening. I found this chick on the other side of the coop. cold and dead;( with two small non-deadly peck marks. We also saw that two more chicks were trying to hatch. This morning neither of them had made it out of the shell. At 10 am i found that one had died before braking out of the shell. The 2nd one was still fighting. I pulled off a small piece and left the chick to get out the rest of the way by it's self. 5 min later i checked again. the chick had made it out of the shell. It was also out of the nest box, and mom was wondering around?! The chick also has a small peck mark on it's tummy. Since i wasn't able to separate the broody, (only one coop) it could have been the mommy or another hen...
I removed this baby, and have it indoors with a heat lamp for now. I will be putting it inside a wire cage, inside the coop, with the heat lamp, in a day or two.

 

[LeJeune1]

Good Luck! Rare for a Leghorn to set too.

 

[Nomibear]

Well. We put the chick in the wire cage in the coop on Wed morning. Wed evening it had somehow escaped, and was under the broody. Thursday morning it seemed fine, but when we got home that night, she was away from mom, but not close enough to the heat lamp. Dead

 

[LeJeune1]

So sorry that happened. Leghorns are great layers, but short on Brains.

 

[Marie50106]

Hello everyone, I have a brown chicken that is broody too but the ruster is seperated and is with my silkies, so the brown chickens eggs are not fertile,
if I take the silkys egg that are probably fertile because the ruster keeps on getting on her back.so if I put the eggs under the brown chicken that is broody will she take care of the eggs, and is December too early to let eggs hatch, I live in Quebec and winter is preddy cold but the chicken coop is quite confie for my chickens they also have a heat lamp.

 

[mtnviewfarms]

Get a copy of the January/February issue of Mother Earth News as they have a long and very informative article on the topic of Broody Hens.
I can't wait until one of mine goes broody now that 'I'm all informed on what to do and ready for it' to happen!

 

[mrsodell1980]

We have a Barred Rock that has gone broody. This is our first broody hen, and I'm excited! We put 2 fertile eggs under here that we were incubating to see if she hatches them. I've read through this thread. Should we leave her in the box she's claimed with her clutch and just section it off from the rest of the hen house? And then when the chicks hatch, should we take them and put them with the rest of the chicks that will hatch in the incubator, or leave her 2 with her?