Quote:
It really depends on the individual and the breed of chicken, I have a silkie who just can not resist not being broody, I got her on late march of this year and she's currently sitting on her 3rd batch of eggs, so that's like 3 times in 6 months, the first time she did raise the chicks till they were about 8 weeks old, and the second time it was really hot and she only hatched a single chick so I took him away and put it in a brooder with some other chicks, well it took her just 3 more weeks for her to go broody again!
I'm planing on keeping all the hens she hatches and a troo from her so I can breed them together and have a probably even better broody than she is.
It really depends on the individual and the breed of chicken, I have a silkie who just can not resist not being broody, I got her on late march of this year and she's currently sitting on her 3rd batch of eggs, so that's like 3 times in 6 months, the first time she did raise the chicks till they were about 8 weeks old, and the second time it was really hot and she only hatched a single chick so I took him away and put it in a brooder with some other chicks, well it took her just 3 more weeks for her to go broody again!
I'm planing on keeping all the hens she hatches and a troo from her so I can breed them together and have a probably even better broody than she is.
