Hey guys! So tonight my yearling buff Orp Lemon, finally went Broody! Thing is we're getting a large batch of hatchery chicks mail orders for arrival the 6-7th this next week. My Cochin we gave chicks 8 days into brooding but if we give them to her night of she'll only be about 5 days into Broody mode and chicks would be 2-3 days old at most if I'm 'mathing' right(they hatch the 4th). Its also about 20 chicks(if everyone arrives safely, fingers crossed) so I figure I may give her 10 and brooder raise 10 as she's covering 13 eggs no problem as we speak.Should give her less babies due to inexperience? All my past buffs have been AMAZING moms but they'd all hatched their chicks personally. and I've never had hens whith more than 4 chicks at a time so I'm curious as to how I should set this up but we'll see how it goes! I'll post again when the babies arrive 
