May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

[dougieee]

I may as well jump in on this one as i have a broody brahma sat on some barb duccle mille fleurs that i was lucky enough to get hold of, shes only sat on 12 and they are tiny but shes surprisingly gentle with her big gompy feet.
The broody desease is also sweeping through my flock so its a dead cert that something wil be hatching by the end of the month, i need to break these mental mothers before my egg supply dries up and i run out of nesting boxes

 

[FortCluck]

I may as well jump in on this one as i have a broody brahma sat on some barb duccle mille fleurs that i was lucky enough to get hold of, shes only sat on 12 and they are tiny but shes surprisingly gentle with her big gompy feet.
The broody desease is also sweeping through my flock so its a dead cert that something wil be hatching by the end of the month, i need to break these mental mothers before my egg supply dries up and i run out of nesting boxes

I can't even get any of mine to go broody

 

[LONDON HENS]

I may as well jump in on this one as i have a broody brahma sat on some barb duccle mille fleurs that i was lucky enough to get hold of, shes only sat on 12 and they are tiny but shes surprisingly gentle with her big gompy feet.
The broody desease is also sweeping through my flock so its a dead cert that something wil be hatching by the end of the month, i need to break these mental mothers before my egg supply dries up and i run out of nesting boxes

Wow.. what do barb duccle mille fleurs look like? never heard of them before.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I can't even get any of mine to go broody

I have so many broody hens every year, lol. It's cute, I really enjoy it but oh my gosh after the first 3-5 hens going broody, you really do start to hope they'll cut it out because we are essentially trying to raise them to eat their eggs after all. Lol!!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Not to mention, trying to break a broody hen can be sooo hard, and worse, they act so upset while you're doing it. I'm too soft to watch my hen stressed out...so I just break down and give them all chicks. Lol!! Hence my incubator full of eggs again do I can give some to the now 3 more broody hens waiting. Lol

 

[SueT]

Hey @CluckNDoodle and other expert hatchers, could you take a look at this thread? The person has candling photos at day 5, and they are dark shelled eggs. I'm the only one to comment, and I don't have much experience, but I am not seeing development.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/are-these-eggs-good.1368219/

 

[FortCluck]

Not to mention, trying to break a broody hen can be sooo hard, and worse, they act so upset while you're doing it. I'm too soft to watch my hen stressed out...so I just break down and give them all chicks. Lol!! Hence my incubator full of eggs again do I can give some to the now 3 more broody hens waiting. Lol

When mine go broody I want to give them a few eggs and let them hatch 2 at a time. That way I can manage all the chicks they're hatching because you know most of them will be males.

 

[FortCluck]

Hey @CluckNDoodle and other expert hatchers, could you take a look at this thread? The person has candling photos at day 5, and they are dark shelled eggs. I'm the only one to comment, and I don't have much experience, but I am not seeing development.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/are-these-eggs-good.1368219/

I commented. All of them have development except for the last one.

You cannot see the veins in their eggs, but you can see growth in them.

 

[Vantic]

When mine go broody I want to give them a few eggs and let them hatch 2 at a time. That way I can manage all the chicks they're hatching because you know most of them will be males.

I have no experience with letting the broody hatch. Do they really make more roos? Or is it a wives tale?

 

[FortCluck]

I have no experience with letting the broody hatch. Do they really make more roos? Or is it a wives tale?

I was just saying that usually 50% are roosters not that they make only roosters.

When I do a hatch I expect 50% to be roosters and knowing me I would probably pick two eggs that were roosters and put them under the broody