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[ronott1]

Goldie my Buff Orp accepted 3 Maran babies!! Last time I tried to put chicks under a broody (a hatchery RIR) she tried to kill them! I'm thrilled!! She was not on my favorites list of the girls I have but now she is at the tippy top!

She just hatch and raised chicks about two months ago. She had been sitting for the last week or so on nothing... I got the little da old Maran chicks and put them under her and sure enough she was instantly in love!

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Way to go Goldie!

Mimi my SG Dorking kept a couple of day old Pita Pinta chicks warm over night but then demanded to be let out of the Kennel in the morning. She rushed back to the nest box where her "eggs"(golf balls) were. She stayed on them for one day and yesterday was off of the nest and no longer Broody.

The Pita Pintas are in the brooder with their hatchmates now.

 

[liz9910]

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I sure do like the look of the Pita Pintas, maybe next time my Mama chicken goes broody I'll have to get some eggs

 

[chiqita]

Liz I'll get you a picture of dolly! She was a rescue last year. A buff orph who will sit 3x a year min. They wanted eggs....

I have 6 egg sitting broodies right now.

Dolly as above. I'm trying to give her all my lf chicks that hatched this week.

Catalina my head hen that I'm saving for the muscovies that are hatching in a few weeks.

Sparkles and smokey blue who are sitting on said muscovie eggs. One will get all my ban ties hatched right now one will get my last scheduled hatch in another 2 weeks.

Vonnie my hatchery ee who lays xl blue eggs. I have no idea what she is sitting on but she is secluded so she gets what she hatches.

Pappa bear still in quarantine. Her flock all passed from something ( don't trust her owners vet) and I seduced her into sitting on some eggs. Owner is still in a bit of shock so I'm not sure what is happening there but I'm thinking at least she can go home with chicks so she us not alone.

This does not include the 6 hens I still have with chicks.

Pro tip: seramas are horrible mothers don't give her anything but unkillable chicks...

 

[Janeothejungle]

Aaargh.... Still no eggs! I think my girls are playing mind games...

 

[Ninamm]

Welcome! You will soon be addicted to this thread!

I am addicted!!!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

After a moment of silence for the missing Quail and a quick prayer for their safe return, Lets look at some Pictures!

The Blue and Black Australorps from Hupp Farms are coming along nicely! I like their fluff and puck look...

Letting some of the older chicks out with the big girls for a bit.

They are looking good Liz

Way to go Goldie!

Mimi my SG Dorking kept a couple of day old Pita Pinta chicks warm over night but then demanded to be let out of the Kennel in the morning. She rushed back to the nest box where her "eggs"(golf balls) were. She stayed on them for one day and yesterday was off of the nest and no longer Broody.

The Pita Pintas are in the brooder with their hatchmates now.

Ron do you have pictures of the older Pita Pinta?

 

[ronott1]

They are looking good Liz
Ron do you have pictures of the older Pita Pinta?

The Parents? I do have some of those.

Babies:



Parents:

I will email the pictures to you.

 

[gryeyes]

A broody buff orp would be so cute!

I happen to have two broody Buff Orps; nearly four year old Buffy hatched 2 chicks 3 days ago, and Punkin is currently in the wicker cat bed nest under the incubator table in the office on her second set of eggs. (She's the one who went broody in the dog bed in the living room.)

Really bad locations to get good photographs on my iPhone.

Buffy hatched my very first GrandChick, Samantha, in July 2010. Buffy was not the egg mother, just the surrogate.
Samantha is an EE and is currently molting. She has never gone broody, nor did her EE egg-mother Rebecca (and Carl's favorite).

But BOs with chicks are THE most adorable sights in the yard!

 

[LAChick]

Hello, everyone!
I just found this thread and want to say I live in Ferndale and have kept backyard chickens for the last 20 yrs.
Our hens are a mix bunch of breeds, with a blue maran roo.

 

[chiqita]

Aaargh.... Still no eggs! I think my girls are playing mind games...

They are evil like that!!

I am addicted!!!

Mwahahaha!

I happen to have two broody Buff Orps; nearly four year old Buffy hatched 2 chicks 3 days ago, and Punkin is currently in the wicker cat bed nest under the incubator table in the office on her second set of eggs. (She's the one who went broody in the dog bed in the living room.)

Really bad locations to get good photographs on my iPhone.

Buffy hatched my very first GrandChick, Samantha, in July 2010. Buffy was not the egg mother, just the surrogate.
Samantha is an EE and is currently molting. She has never gone broody, nor did her EE egg-mother Rebecca (and Carl's favorite).

But BOs with chicks are THE most adorable sights in the yard!

I miss my buffy. Half squat my melted face ( for our newer members I hatched out of a shipped egg a frizzled Cochin missing an eye and a scissor beak 3 weeks ago) Cochin is doing REALLY well. She is only a bit smaller then her hatch mates and going to sleep with a full crop. I think her beak did not get more off like a real cross beak because her jaw was not "off" in the normal way just off because of her melted face.

If she looks like a she and looks like she is going to make it I'm renaming her buffy after my dear departed orph.
Everyone needs a buffy.

Hello, everyone!
 I just found this thread and want to say I live in Ferndale and have kept backyard chickens for the last 20 yrs.  
Our hens are a mix bunch of breeds, with a blue maran roo.  

Welcome!
If you can deal with the noise marans are fantastic head roos.

My head roo Louie last year saved his girls from a bobcat out to get them. He was a beautiful fcbm. His sons are trying but not yet up to his calibre.