Is there a list of "Bad Momma" breeds?

[lazy gardener]

Never, never, never say NEVER, George! There have been a few threads, not a lot, but a few threads started by folks who have had "never supposed to go broody" hens successfully set and raise chicks!

 

[nomirawr1]

I can't speak to general rules... but my australorp has been a great sitter/great mama. My wyandotte, was a crappy sitter and now is trying to steal mama a'lorps chick. My sussex x wyandotte, and 2 hylines have never been broody.

 

[Hinotori]

I always keep a close eye on first time broodies. I have had hatchery hens set the eggs well then kill the chicks as they hatched.

Even my non-hatchery silkies get watched the first time. I note who is an excellent mother in my breeding records and tend to hatch more of their eggs.

Side effect of that is getting hens that go broody as soon as they start laying. Usually they actually give me a few eggs first, but I have some just skip laying that first egg.

 

[Dawnclucks22]

Just this. Commercial egg laying breeds have the desire to set totally bred out of them. No matter what you do or how sexy your rooster is these hens will never start setting.... ever.

 

[Deltabwa]

I always keep a close eye on first time broodies. I have had hatchery hens set the eggs well then kill the chicks as they hatched.

Even my non-hatchery silkies get watched the first time. I note who is an excellent mother in my breeding records and tend to hatch more of their eggs.

Side effect of that is getting hens that go broody as soon as they start laying. Usually they actually give me a few eggs first, but I have some just skip laying that first egg.

that's what I worry about. It should be any day. I have been gone for the last 3 days at a basketball tournament but will be home later today. When I candled them on what should have been roughly day 14/15, they looked a lot older/darker. And the eggs are small. The last time I hatched small young eggs, they hatched at day 18. So we shall see in a few days. I'm a little concerned about the eggs actually, they just didn't sem right and looked more "sloppy" like the abandoned duck eggs I tried to save and hatch out and they turned real runny. Hopefully tho, all will be well

thanks

 

[BantyChooks]

Just this. Commercial egg laying breeds have the desire to set totally bred out of them. No matter what you do or how sexy your rooster is these hens will never start setting.... ever.

You forgot to inform my black sexlinks of that little factoid.

 

[MageofMist]

Never, never, never say NEVER, George! There have been a few threads, not a lot, but a few threads started by folks who have had "never supposed to go broody" hens successfully set and raise chicks!

My school had Production Reds, White Leghorns and some other egg-production breeds of hens... Well, one of the Leghorns went broody and they had no roosters, so the eggs wouldn't hatch and it was my turn to collect the eggs... I walked out of the coop with a massive bruise on my right hand from when I was taking her eggs and she gave me a RIGHT peck!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

You forgot to inform my black sexlinks of that little factoid. Red too.

My neighbors’ black Sexlink hen went broody.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

My school had Production Reds, White Leghorns and some other egg-production breeds of hens... Well, one of the Leghorns went broody and they had no roosters, so the eggs wouldn't hatch and it was my turn to collect the eggs... I walked out of the coop with a massive bruise on my right hand from when I was taking her eggs and she gave me a RIGHT peck!

Where did this leghorn and production red come from? What I am asking is do you know the hen's genetic background? Sex link hens will not breed true. This means that if you mate a male sexlink, and a female sexlink of the same breed together the two sexlink chickens will not produce a sexlinked offspring. The more that they are mated sexlink to sexlink the further apart the chicks will be from a true sexlinked chicken because every generation that a sexlinked bird is inbred to another sexlink the further apart from the original mother and father the chicks will become because the genes that went into creating the final cross will come to the forefront and soon you'll have a coop full of mutt chickens.. The name of each sexlinke strain is copyrighted by the hatchery and the genetic makeup of each strain is a closely guarded trade secret. What this means is that unless you buy a new batch of chicks from the original hatchery each year, what someone told you is a sexlink can be anything, or it can be nothing.

 

[MageofMist]

Where did this leghorn and production red come from? What I am asking is do you know the hen's genetic background? Sex link hens will not breed true. This means that if you mate a male sexlink, and a female sexlink of the same breed together the two sexlink chickens will not produce a sexlinked offspring. The more that they are mated sexlink to sexlink the further apart the chicks will be from a true sexlinked chicken because every generation that a sexlinked bird is inbred to another sexlink the further apart from the original mother and father the chicks will become because the genes that went into creating the final cross will come to the forefront and soon you'll have a coop full of mutt chickens.. The name of each sexlinke strain is copyrighted by the hatchery and the genetic makeup of each strain is a closely guarded trade secret. What this means is that unless you buy a new batch of chicks from the original hatchery each year, what someone told you is a sexlink can be anything, or it can be nothing.

I was just going by what my school told me they were, and they looked the same as the pictures I see of them online. I wasn't told where they came from, barring the reds being ex battery hens, which doesn't really help in the genetic background side of things as I didn't know the farm or supplier('s) to it, and didn't really think to ask. They could have just been a bunch of mutts who looked like the official breeds so the school just said "Yeah, that's a [insert name here.]" For all I knew.