Chicken hen brooding the peachicks. Pictures

[Farmerboy16]

I had brought 6 India Blue eggs on ebay from SD to MI, and I put the eggs under my Buff Orpington/EE cross. She had a 100% hatch!

This is her sitting on the eggs

The chicks at 2 weeks old outside for the first time today. The blue fizzle cochin bantie left his mom to be with the peachick's family.

 

[zazouse]

:loI can hardly wait till mine start laying i have over 50 broodies just about all spring/summer sure would love let them hatch out some peas and teach them .

Very beautiful photos thanks for sharing.

 

[SuperPeacockman]

I think the white I Black Shoulder, congrats!

 

[DMFarm]

The yellow chick is a blackshoulder

 

[Knix6468]

I have heard that sometimes the chicken turns on the hatchlings, how do you prevent that from happening? Are there certain chicken breeds that are more accommodating ?

and congrats

 

[Farmerboy16]

How soon can you tell if the BS is a male or a female?

 

[Farmerboy16]

How will the blackshoulder's offspring look like, when mated with india blue?

 

[SuperPeacockman]

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They will look India Blue because Bs is recessive. If some of the IB are carrying the Bs gene some of the offspring might be Bs