My Brahmas sat on, hatched and brooded without incident, 24 large-jumbo eggs last spring.
The chicks would 'swim' through her feathers, play hop-on-mom and she was the best momma I have ever seen.
Gentle, and what a super teacher, holding worms out to them, and she feeding the babies tidbits and bugs.
She is in my avatar, with blue copper marans chicks.
I have only had bantam cochins in the past, and none went broody.
I have LF Lemon-Blues and a bunch in the incubator as well, and I wouls think the LF Cochins have the same big puffy butt as the brahmas, that they could handle more eggs.
They do seem clumsy though, what with so much foot feathering, maybe that is why they step on babies/eggs ?
My brahmas do not have as much toe feathers as a LF Cochin.
Incidently, my brahmas are from McMurray, and in all fairness, I have ordered multitudes of dozens of baby chicks from McMurray, and they have been extremely hardy, never had 1 die.
But, they are still hatchery birds, albeit healthy hatchery birds, and after a super fall moult, all my beautiful white brahmas are severely penciled from head to tail ...so after all their pluses, they are still hatchery birds.
I do not breed them, if I did I would get some from that guy in Minnesota that just posted a whole bunch of photos on the rarest chicken thread...I just use my brahmas for brooding.
I will see if I can find the link to the Minnesota guy.
The chicks would 'swim' through her feathers, play hop-on-mom and she was the best momma I have ever seen.
Gentle, and what a super teacher, holding worms out to them, and she feeding the babies tidbits and bugs.
She is in my avatar, with blue copper marans chicks.
I have only had bantam cochins in the past, and none went broody.
I have LF Lemon-Blues and a bunch in the incubator as well, and I wouls think the LF Cochins have the same big puffy butt as the brahmas, that they could handle more eggs.
They do seem clumsy though, what with so much foot feathering, maybe that is why they step on babies/eggs ?
My brahmas do not have as much toe feathers as a LF Cochin.
Incidently, my brahmas are from McMurray, and in all fairness, I have ordered multitudes of dozens of baby chicks from McMurray, and they have been extremely hardy, never had 1 die.
But, they are still hatchery birds, albeit healthy hatchery birds, and after a super fall moult, all my beautiful white brahmas are severely penciled from head to tail ...so after all their pluses, they are still hatchery birds.
I do not breed them, if I did I would get some from that guy in Minnesota that just posted a whole bunch of photos on the rarest chicken thread...I just use my brahmas for brooding.
I will see if I can find the link to the Minnesota guy.
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