Confused again!!

[NysiaAnera]

The only other possibility is that he came from one of my hens then, though I don't know how...

 

[junebuggena]

The only other possibility is that he came from one of my hens then, though I don't know how...

Is it possible that you lost track of which eggs were which, or which chicks came from which eggs? It easily happens if you've got a bunch of different eggs in the incubator.

 

[NysiaAnera]

They were hatched under a broody hen, so I do not know who came from which eggs. That is what I am trying to figure out. The only 100% certain things are that I used eggs from my own flock and from my sister's flock, the breeds of the hens the eggs were from, and the breed of the roos.

 

[donrae]

Broody hens are notorious for stealing eggs, unless you had her completely confined from any other laying hen.........IDK, just trying to see how someone else could have gotten in the mix.

 

[NysiaAnera]

She was completely confined. The eggs were hand picked. Actually, the momma was one of two that were the very first (and last!) two to ever be separated from the flock to brood.

 

[NysiaAnera]

I am bummed that neither of us have these chickens anymore, because now I want to separate them all in breeding pens and hatch their eggs just to figure out the puzzle. I could probably borrow Mo (my Polish who went to a new home) and put him in a pen with one of each breed of my hens for a month and then hatch those eggs. But my sister's chickens were killed in two separate attacks less than a week apart, so no way to do that with hers.