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Curious note about Java's and broody behavior....
Our Java's are now 3yrs old. So this is our third year with broody Java's. Curiously enough, each year, the SAME hen starts off the broody season - and she's consistently starting the week AFTER the Garfield show! It's getting so I'm thinking she's hiding a little calendar in the nesting box, checking off days!
She's got 7 eggs under her at the moment (unless someone snuck one in today)....and her sisters typically follow suit the week after she starts sitting. So, in a matter of a month, I'll have a population explosion - typically have 4 broodies with at least 3 eggs under each. I do try to limit who's got what under her. So once I know a hen is serious, I move eggs from a hen with too many, to a hen with fewer under her.
Did I mention the 13 chicks we hatched out in March and April? Yikes! I'm going to need a bigger coop! (Don't tell dh - we're supposed to be working on landscaping and installing an orchard this year!)
Great information! Thanks for sharing! Glad Jim is going to be breeding the MJ again, and from stock that you were able to rescue. So did he at one time own the same line that you are breeding now? Can you please update us here on this thread with any information on the MJ that Jim may share with you! It is kinda quiet here, but maybe that will change.talked to Jim tonight the strain started out in 1959 he raised up two hundred birds at one time and improved the egg production from 15 eggs to 150 eggs in about 30 years. This is a old strain of Mottled Javas. Jim is going to get ten chicks from us next spring. Hope to have ten more to share to a serious Mottled Java want a be breeder. bob
Thanks, I have been to the Java Breeders web page often, and never saw the newsletter. Checking it out now......... Yep, is there another Java thread that is more active? Am I missing something?There is The Java Breeders of America club and a quarterly newsletter with additional Java information. Yes, this thread has been pretty quiet lately hasn't it?