d'anver lovers,discuss the breed and post some pics!

[speckledhen]

Looks like Aimee is also broody, but she was being so calm, at first I thought she was just late laying her egg. Nope, she's on the nest next to Penny. Sheesh.

Thanks, Taz. I'll have to figure out the arrangement tomorrow. I wonder if they could be in that broody pen together. Or maybe I could just let them sit where they are, put a barrier across the front at the time when the eggs start pipping so that the chicks can't fall out of the nest, then move mamas and chicks to another location on the floor. Have you ever had two hens brood together? I would really love it if these two would raise chicks together, but my standards never have and they'd attack each other's chicks.

 

[lcw1995]

cyn, heres some pics
ive had multiple hens go broody together.sometimes theres problems, but if they are raised together likes urs were, they should be fine.





not tryin to hi-jack thread by any means, just tryin to help lol

 

[speckledhen]

Cole, those are awesome pictures! How cute! Thanks for posting them for me.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

no Cole, that post was at JJ about those light milles, sorry about that, I thought I hit quote, must have just hit reply.. this new byc takes me for ever to get anything pulled up, so I'm usually mad by the time the darn threads come up and just miss hit what I was going for...


Cynthia, No I dont do anything special for them, they go broody from time to time, but I virtually never let them keep any.
now at the end of the season, I usually let them have the final stragglers they lay. I dont have boxes or anything in there for them, just heavy hay bedding on the ground. They usually get in a back corner and just wallow out a spot. They do just fine like that, and have raised a good many babies just leaving them alone with them. If you had a brooder or small cage you could move them to after the hatch, it would be a big plus, but in my case that's just too many brooders so I leave them all in the main pen...never had an issue, even the roos are fine around them. They wonder pen to pen at times, but they quickly get run back into the right one....

 

[speckledhen]

Now, if I can just convince Tom to let them stay in the coop..but then again, I do have more than just the d'Anvers in that coop. There's my Buff Orp hen and my banty Cochin, both of whom have raised their own chicks, and my Silver Phoenix, who keeps threatening to go broody, but who never has actually stayed on the nest-she just clucks and flares up like she's broody sometimes.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep, that's how phoenix do a lot of the times, my silver duck wings are the only die hard broody phoenix I have, out of hundreds of them.

Now it never hurts to move them to a boxed brooder style cage, but it's not mandatory, especially just for the incubation part

 

[tazcat70]

Looks like Aimee is also broody, but she was being so calm, at first I thought she was just late laying her egg. Nope, she's on the nest next to Penny. Sheesh.

Thanks, Taz. I'll have to figure out the arrangement tomorrow. I wonder if they could be in that broody pen together. Or maybe I could just let them sit where they are, put a barrier across the front at the time when the eggs start pipping so that the chicks can't fall out of the nest, then move mamas and chicks to another location on the floor. Have you ever had two hens brood together? I would really love it if these two would raise chicks together, but my standards never have and they'd attack each other's chicks.

Oh yes! I have one hen, that the minute she hears chicks pipping, she scoots in the nest with the other hen. They have co-brooded several times. I think it all has to do with who is there when they hatch out. These same two hens, had chicks a week apart this fall. They raised those separately, and there was the occasional scuffle. If they sit on the nest together, I haven't had any mean mommy issues.

Tonya

 

[NanaKat]

I'll take a picture of my portable nest box for the OEGB in the morning. It would work for your girls.
If you let the girls sit with their eggs in a portable nestbox, you can move the mom and her eggs while she is on the nest to your brooder box before the hatch date. If a hen is sitting tight, she won't leave her eggs during the move.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

nope I agree, if they brood together, they usually raise them just fine together. Those phoenix I just mentioned actually sit in the same spot, 3 of them right now all on 1 eggs a day...idiots..LOL They just all want to be mommies I guess. But last fall those 3 hatched out about 30 or so and raised almost all of them right in the breeder pen...

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

I'll take a picture of my portable nest box for the OEGB in the morning. It would work for your girls.
If you let the girls sit with their eggs in a portable nestbox, you can move the mom and her eggs while she is on the nest to your brooder box before the hatch date. If a hen is sitting tight, she won't leave her eggs during the move.

that sounds like apretty good rig there