My First Broody!

[Hybridchucks]

I candled all 6 eggs that are under Charlotte and they all have veins and I saw the embryos in almost all of them!
Charlotte was very unhappy with me.

Awesome! Hope all goes well for you!

 

[Harmony Fowl]

We’re getting so close!

I put my five chicken incubator eggs under Prudence when she left her nest yesterday. She hadn’t returned by bedtime, so I took her to her nest, showed her the eggs and she delightedly sat down again and hasn’t left since. Another day of sitting and I’m going to risk the guinea eggs.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Awesome! Hope all goes well for you!

Thank you Tov.

We’re getting so close!

I put my five chicken incubator eggs under Prudence when she left her nest yesterday. She hadn’t returned by bedtime, so I took her to her nest, showed her the eggs and she delightedly sat down again and hasn’t left since. Another day of sitting and I’m going to risk the guinea eggs.

When’s hatch day?

 

[Harmony Fowl]

Thank you Tov.

When’s hatch day?

One set is due July 3rd, the other July 8th.

 

[Hybridchucks]

Thank you Tov.

When’s hatch day?

My quail is broody and the eggs are due to hatch on the 12th of July!

 

[Rick M]

What is a normal age for chickens to go broody? My first 5 bared rock we’re born back in middle of February and started laying their first eggs on Father’s Day. Now what I thought was the youngest/least mature looking one laid an egg again this morning and won’t leave the nest box. The other hens also like to lay in the same box everyday. I don’t have a roo just wondering if what she is doing is getting broody? Thanks for your help.

 

[WVduckchick]

What is a normal age for chickens to go broody? My first 5 bared rock we’re born back in middle of February and started laying their first eggs on Father’s Day. Now what I thought was the youngest/least mature looking one laid an egg again this morning and won’t leave the nest box. The other hens also like to lay in the same box everyday. I don’t have a roo just wondering if what she is doing is getting broody? Thanks for your help.

Broodieness has no age range. I’ve had young seramas go broody at 5-6 months old, and older hens not brood at all, or wait till their 2nd year.
Best thing to check is their chest feathers. They pull them out to put their skin directly on the eggs when they sit, so if a hen is pulling out her chest feathers and gettin it naked, then they are usually going broody.

 

[Rick M]

Broodieness has no age range. I’ve had young seramas go broody at 5-6 months old, and older hens not brood at all, or wait till their 2nd year.
Best thing to check is their chest feathers. They pull them out to put their skin directly on the eggs when they sit, so if a hen is pulling out her chest feathers and gettin it naked, then they are usually going broody.

Ok thank you very much.

 

[Harmony Fowl]

Two days early, Helen has at least one baby!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Two days early, Helen has at least one baby!
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That’s awesome!