can i put eggs from a different breed of chicken under a hen?

[Doodle_Doo]

i have silver phoenix hens and one is broody and i ordered some black sumatra eggs can i add them to her eggs?
will she hatch them or recognize the difference and break them??
i had an old rhode island red hen that i tryed it once but she only broke the ones i added..also sumatra..
but her eggs were brown and other were white..
just need some advice with this..
any help appreciated..
thanks

 

[tdkmom]

I am new to this but I'm gonna say you can put them under her. My duck was sitting on chicken eggs yesterday! And got mad when I moved her back to her own eggs!
ETA: And her eggs are little and blue and the chicken eggs were big and brown.

 

[Cluck-a-Doodle-Doo]

My last broody hen "stole" eggs from 4 other hens and hatched them out. And I even put one chick under her that I hatched out of my incubator while hers were hatching. They aren't picky at all... the more the merrier.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

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Yes, you can set the the hen on any eggs you want....duck, goose, peacock, another chicken, what ever. as long as she can cover them enough to incubate them she will do it. My grandmother used to sit her hens on guinea eggs because sometimes the guinea will be a good mom and sometimes she would not. I currently have a cuckoo maran on easter eggers egg and salmon faverolles on partridge cochin eggs...go figure.

 

[tinychicky]

any eggs from any bird or breed are fine- the ones your other hen broke may have had thin shells due to lack of calcuim.

 

[poultryhaven]

D'Angelo N Va. :

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Yes, you can set the the hen on any eggs you want....duck, goose, peacock, another chicken, what ever. as long as she can cover them enough to incubate them she will do it. My grandmother used to sit her hens on guinea eggs because sometimes the guinea will be a good mom and sometimes she would not. I currently have a cuckoo maran on easter eggers egg and salmon faverolles on partridge cochin eggs...go figure.

Well its reccommended not to put quail eggs under them.

 

[pdsavage]

How long has she been sitting on her eggs,having staggered hatches under a broody is not a good idea.
The broody will only sit about 2 days after the the first eggs hatch.

 

[Doodle_Doo]

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she always is sitting on them every morning but i take them..but i know if i leave some she will incubate them..
if i seperate her and let her lay on the eggs she lays from today to wendsday when the sumatra eggs arrive will this be alright?
also i have rhode island red hens and two gamefowl hens that are always fighting will it be alright if the hen that is broody is put in one of those dog kennel boxes while she incubates this batch of eggs?
its a large box it was meant for an adult great dane..
will it be alright for me to keep her in here? to also keep her chicks safe from the other older chickens and the chihuahua which i know could be thought as no threat but they surprised me yesterday with three dead quail :S
and also from hawks which are in large supply here..?

 

[Kittymomma]

Absolutely! I just had a broody Black Australorp hatch out 9 rouen ducklings. Broody hens don't really care, they just want to be a momma to something.

 

[kid-n-chickens]

I would continue to pull the eggs out from under her and put them all under her at the same time that way they all hatch together and you dont have to worry about her giving up on eggs b/c she already had babys for 2 days. Just store them in a cool room in a carton with the small end down. Dont forget to let the shipped eggs settle for at least 8 hours before starting incubation, this lets the air sac and everything get a chance to settle.