Do these breeds go broody?

[Kessel23]

Hello everyone, I have got a simple question today. I like cool looking chickens and I ordered 25 "rare" chickens from Murray McMurray this year, they will be sent to me on May 7th. I also like breeds that will go broody, I did not check or research if the breeds I got will go broody, I just got them because I wanted a cool looking addition to my flock that would also lay some eggs. Anyways, here is the list of birds I got- 5 White Laced Red Cornish, 5 Egyptian Fayoumis, 5 Golden Laced Wyandottes, 5 Golden Campines, and 5 Silver Leghorns. I do not need these birds to be broody chickens, I did not get them for their ability to incubate eggs, that would just be an added benefit. If anyone has had these breeds, can you let me know if they go broody.

Right now I have all standard production layer birds, RIR, White Leghorns, Black Australorps, and Red Stars, all are from either a feed store or hatchery, the only broody hens I have had were RIR, I have only had 3 go broody in the past 4 years. I thought it was time to bring some color into my flock, and so I got these 25, it would also be cool to get some broody hens in the flock, if none of this birds will go broody then suggest some large birds that will so I can add them to my flock next year. I'm thinking about getting some Cochins but if I do get Cochins I would need to get a large number like 15 or 20 so that they would not be targeted by my other clean legged birds, are Cochins good broody hens? If they are not I will not be introducing them to my flock anytime soon.

 

[Bound to Sea]

I have one GLW, almost 2. Never gone broody. My Cochin is 1.5 yrs old and never gone broody.

 

[Folly's place]

They will be a beautiful group! Maybe someone will decide to be broody, who knows?
I had a little Fayoumi cockerel a few years ago; cutest bird ever! He started trying to crow at 28 days of age!
Are you getting straight run?
Mary

 

[Kessel23]

They will be a beautiful group! Maybe someone will decide to be broody, who knows?
I had a little Fayoumi cockerel a few years ago; cutest bird ever! He started trying to crow at 28 days of age!
Are you getting straight run?
Mary

I am getting all hens except for a GC and WLRC but McMurray does mess up sometimes and they have sent me extra roosters by mistake before so there is a possibility of getting a Fayoumi rooster. I got the GC rooster because I had one when I was 8 and he was my favorite chicken, at the time I did not know what he was, we got him from McMurry as our free "mystery chick" I could never find a for sure match in the catalog and after his death I slowly forgot about him. But then many years later, as I was looking through old Christmas photos one caught my eye, it was a picture of me and my family sitting in front of the tree, we had our dogs there and in my lap there was a little golden rooster, it was the GC from all those years ago and I was now familiar with the breed and recognized it instantly as a Golden Campine. That is why I really want a GC rooster again, I loved that rooster so much that I brought him inside for my family's christmas photo
I got the WLRC roo because they are a large bird and I like to have roosters of different strengths so that they are not constantly fighting for dominance, if one is clearly weaker then it will not fight.

 

[Conan]

I've never had a broody chicken that wasn't' a bantam... Cochin bantam, to be specific. I have had a friend hatch out a large number of ducklings for me under a broody hen though I am not certain what type.

 

[3riverschick]

Cornish and Leghorns should not be broody. Wyandottes can be. Don't know enough about Egyptian hens to comment.
Best,
Karen

 

[sevenfatcows]

I have many large fowl hens who are broody and good mothers as well. Last spring two Buff Orpington hens raised chicks for us as well as two of our Lavender Orpingtons. I have a White Plymouth Rock hen who just hatched her babies two weeks ago and a Dorking/French Black Copper Marans hen that began to set last Tuesday. This will be her fourth clutch in about a year an a half; she is a wonderful mother for about 6 weeks, then she's done and ready to brood again. Two of our French Black Copper Marans each reared a batch of chicks last summer as did an Australorp/Buff Orpington cross. We have another of that same cross who has raised two batches of chicks for us yearly going on four years now. We had a White Plymouth Rock/ White Jersey Giant rear chicks also this fall-she was sitting her eggs just before Christmas. I hope this gives you some ideas.
Whenever I have a broody hen, I let her set and almost always start some in the incubator at the same time so I can add chicks to the hen's "family." This is a good fail safe if something happens to the hen's eggs so that they do not hatch. For instance, last summer a large gopher snake ate my Marans hen's eggs three days before they were due to hatch. She was left with nothing, but we set her on new eggs and gave her the incubated chicks three days later when they hatched. She did just fine with them. As far as we are concerned, a broody hen is just about priceless.