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I have let a few of my bantam hens hatch chicks out on occasion but only a few eggs because I don't want the hassle of having to get rid of lots of roosters (I'm only keeping one rooster and he's a bantam
) I've only kept one of the hatched hens and gave all the others away to new chicken people with small kids.
I do enjoy watching a good broody hen take care of chicks, it's one of the joys of having chickens. One of my favorite big hens adopted a partially hatched chick whose silky mother was trying desperately to kill the poor thing. I loved the look of the silkies but after two of my silky hens killed 3 of their hatching chicks I got rid of them. My friend said those two silky hens did end up being good moms but I didn't have the patience for them (they didn't have the sense to walk up a ramp into their coop at night which was a huge hassle during the winter months!).
I like to get new breeds every year so my flock is very colorful and so are their eggs!
Last year I hatched out a lot of roosters, fortunately for me I live in an Amish community and they bought all of them from me to can for the winter, now I have no worries about roosters I just walk down the road to the Amish hardware store post an ad and they will come.
I have let a few of my bantam hens hatch chicks out on occasion but only a few eggs because I don't want the hassle of having to get rid of lots of roosters (I'm only keeping one rooster and he's a bantam
I do enjoy watching a good broody hen take care of chicks, it's one of the joys of having chickens. One of my favorite big hens adopted a partially hatched chick whose silky mother was trying desperately to kill the poor thing. I loved the look of the silkies but after two of my silky hens killed 3 of their hatching chicks I got rid of them. My friend said those two silky hens did end up being good moms but I didn't have the patience for them (they didn't have the sense to walk up a ramp into their coop at night which was a huge hassle during the winter months!).
I like to get new breeds every year so my flock is very colorful and so are their eggs!
Last year I hatched out a lot of roosters, fortunately for me I live in an Amish community and they bought all of them from me to can for the winter, now I have no worries about roosters I just walk down the road to the Amish hardware store post an ad and they will come.
