I'm hatching eggs.... So outrageous to me it's unbelieveable...

[Stray]

As the title says, I'm going to be hatching eggs, but since I've no Roo I planned to get Hatching eggs may 1st/2nd round there. So, I've been trying to see if I could get my hens to go broody.
I've 13 hens so I figured at least one of them's got to have a want to be a mother.
The flock consists of:
7 various polish
3 Cochins
1 cross between a Policauna (Cross between a polish and Amaracauna)
and
2 Amaracaunas.
I understand that not all, if any, polish go broody.
So I'm mostly relying on my Cochins and possibly my Amaracaunas.
Is there another breed that is reliable for being broody?

 

[NicInNC]

Silkies are known for going broody. Mine has been broody for a year now and we are finally letting her try to hatch some babies. She's on 3 eggs that are due April 1st.

 

[cluckcluck42]

We are hoping to get a silkie soon for that purpose, they are notorious brooders. Might be worth it to get an incubator though, hatching is fun

 

[Stray]

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I've had silkies, but have but put off of them because when I did have some I lost all of them due to the heat here.
They all ended up with heat stroke because after we went to a poultry swap, we went to dinner with all of my flock in the back of the truck... I wasn't allowed to leave to check on them and they were pretty much gone by the time we were finished.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Silkies are suppost to very broody, but I think Cochins are just as broody as silkies. I have 3 broody Cochins setting on eggs right now ... best lil' mommies!
Oh, here is just a idea that might help them go broody:
Get a cardboard box and cut a hole in it and put lots of hay/shavings etc in it and then put some fake eggs in there. They just might set.

 

[Stray]

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Hatching is fun, yes.
Always had to catch and count the little ones when I had a free range flock... Agrivation as it was.