do chukar set

[NorthestGeorgia14]

Do chukar set on their eggs?

 

[Woofless]

It's pretty uncommon for one to go broody in captivity. It does happen though- I had one setting earlier this year (go back a few months on this board, I posted a thread with pics) but nothing even tried to hatch, and she lost interest after about a month so I tossed the eggs into the pig pen....broke a few open in the pen & didn't look like anything had tried to develop.

Most info I found (and there's not a lot) told me that a successful hatch under a broody chukar in captivity is very rare. A few might hatch, but if mom & chicks are not isolated from other adult birds, they will kill the chicks.

If you have a broody chicken esp. a bantam, they will do a much better job hatching & rearing chukar chicks if you put the eggs under them