This year instead of running the incubator I've decided to hatch with a broody so I don't have to brood the chicks. Sounds like a good plan but I have questions.
It seems my large fowl don't go broody until the fall (and I have had two hatch eggs but only after I gave up trying to take them from them.) and then go into a molt and stop laying.
I would prefer to hatch chicks in the spring but all my hens are too busy to stop and go broody. Anyway to get them broody earlier in the year?
If I decide to use a bantam to hatch large fowl egg (Hoping the little ones just may go broody earlier) how many large fowl eggs can a very small bantam cover? They're so small I think three, maybe four, tops (Which causes me to envision four cockerels hatching. )
It seems my large fowl don't go broody until the fall (and I have had two hatch eggs but only after I gave up trying to take them from them.) and then go into a molt and stop laying.
I would prefer to hatch chicks in the spring but all my hens are too busy to stop and go broody. Anyway to get them broody earlier in the year?
If I decide to use a bantam to hatch large fowl egg (Hoping the little ones just may go broody earlier) how many large fowl eggs can a very small bantam cover? They're so small I think three, maybe four, tops (Which causes me to envision four cockerels hatching. )
