Chicken Breed Focus - Sebright

[Alex1010]

Mine aren't hatchery stock either, so hopefully that is no indication

Said that and got home to a big silver Sebright egg lol, I think she's about to start

 

[member 373180]

Hi @wvduckchick. I am in Huntington, just a little urban farm and jealous of your camp.
I got 7/10 eggs today, definitely ramping up!
I was integrating my 3.5 week old chicks with the sebrights today, it went really well!

 

[WVduckchick]

Hi @wvduckchick. I am in Huntington, just a little urban farm and jealous of your camp.
I got 7/10 eggs today, definitely ramping up!
I was integrating my 3.5 week old chicks with the sebrights today, it went really well!

Nice! We may have a small farm someday, now its just chicks and ducks. And thanks! I lived in SoChas/StAlbans areas up until 3 years ago, we moved north when my husband took a promotion/transfer.

I got 3 eggs again today and am setting some lavender orpington eggs this week to hatch, and I think I'll throw a few sebright eggs in there with them!

 

[member 373180]

Yeah, I'm actually pretty happy with the limits of an urban farm right now, somehow there are always enough holes to dig. Probably scale up to a real hobby farm when the demands of work back off a bit.

 

[member 373180]

Are you using an incubator or is one of your sebrights broody? Mine trade off constantly in the broody buster.

 

[WVduckchick]

Yeah, I'm actually pretty happy with the limits of an urban farm right now, somehow there are always enough holes to dig. Probably scale up to a real hobby farm when the demands of work back off a bit.

Sounds great!

Are you using an incubator or is one of your sebrights broody? Mine trade off constantly in the broody buster.

I'm using an incubator. How old are they when they usually go broody? Mine are still pretty young, but I need more girls!

 

[member 373180]

I'm using an incubator. How old are they when they usually go broody? Mine are still pretty young, but I need more girls!

Mine were laying at 5 mos and I think they were busy being broody by 7 mos. certainly much younger than a year old. They're really persistent about it, too. At first I figured I'd just toss them off their nests until they quit but it got so that I'd have three little growlers in the nest boxes for weeks on end. Enter the buster, problem solved in 3 days whenever anyone starts.

 

[WVduckchick]

Mine were laying at 5 mos and I think they were busy being broody by 7 mos. certainly much younger than a year old. They're really persistent about it, too. At first I figured I'd just toss them off their nests until they quit but it got so that I'd have three little growlers in the nest boxes for weeks on end. Enter the buster, problem solved in 3 days whenever anyone starts.

Wow, ok, I didn't realize they would start that early. What's the buster??

 

[GitaBooks]

Mine loved to go broody and was a great mother. A little too great actually. She tried to kill any other hens chicks to let her own get all the food. I didn't have to worry about those little guys safety with her around.

I've got a Sebright x OEGB that just went broody for the first time so we'll see how good of a mother she is. My Banshee sisters were the same cross but not nearly as friendly (they were vicious actually, hints the name) so we never let them hatch.

All and all, I think sebrights make wonderful mothers.

 

[Faraday40]

I also didn't think Sebrights went broody. She's too small to mate with our roo, so ours will never have fertile eggs. I now have a funny image in my head of my 20oz Sebright trying to cover one of our Jumb oeggs. We have a hen that lays giant 4oz eggs. (Looks like a duck egg.)