My 2 1/2 month hen's motherly instint kicked in. How young can a hen be to go broody ?

[kacklinghen]

Respectfully disagree on the rooster. He does not have a crest or white earlobes.

The hen looks to have a residual crest and has the white earlobes, but her coloring is way off for a Legbar, she doesn't look to have the cream part. I can see your frustration as this breed is supposed to be auto sexing, with the males and females readily apparent at hatch. Unfortunately, the breed got so popular so fast and too many folks were looking to make a fast buck. Birds were simply propagated, not bred and culled correctly, and the auto sexing is easily lost. He'll be a beautiful bird, regardless.

Were all those chicks from the same parents? If so, the variety in offspring speaks for the parents not being pure. Two pure bred parents will produce offspring that are virtually identical.

Wow the information on this site is amazing you guys know your stuff. I only wanted one male and I already have one. Well the one who is the most gentlest to my hens I will keep. I started out just with 7 hens and grew to 20 counting these babies. I like to know these things so I don't tell someone the wrong thing. I could not believe a chicken 21/2 months male or female that would do good to the babies. But if you guys are right (and it looks like you are) maybe he is being good because the babies I got from the feed store are pullets and he knows it...LOL

 

[kacklinghen]

Wow the information on this site is amazing you guys know your stuff. I only wanted one male and I already have one. Well the one who is the most gentlest to my hens I will keep. I started out just with 7 hens and grew to 20 counting these babies. I like to know these things so I don't tell someone the wrong thing. I could not believe a chicken 21/2 months male or female that would do good to the babies. But if you guys are right (and it looks like you are) maybe he is being good because the babies I got from the feed store are pullets and he knows it...LOL

3 babies are from feed store and 3 baby EE was from my hen the hawk got