My Hens landed a noble job!!

[flgardengirl]

That is awesome and exciting!!! Hopefully they will give you some photos that you can share

It sounds like they are going to get a lovely place to live..your hens might not wanna come back home, lol, if they are really spoiled ;p

 

[NeeleysAVLChicks]

That's just wonderful, I'm so excited for you and your girls!! There better be pictures, I'm dying to see your ladies on 1 lb eggs!! Congrats, what a great program to be involved with!!

 

[adkchickmama]

Congratulations to you and your girls. Hope you will post pics of their efforts. Those are some large eggs.

 

[PoultryPedia]

WOW!

Super-neat!!!

 

[quailbrain]

That's a cool story! How eggsciting!

 

[MaggieRae]

First off, what a wonderful project! It sounds like a lot of fun.
Second, Orpingtons are supposed to be wonderful broodys, and my australorp was trying to hatch out the golf balls even before she started laying. She would get bored though, and after a couple hours would walk off. I'm interested in seeing how she does come spring. Two other broody breeds I've heard of are silver laced wyandottes, and silkies.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Congratulations! that is SO cool! what an awesome project to undertake!
My biggest & most stubbornest broody is my hatchery Marans hen Myrtle. She doesn't lay a real dark egg, but she stayed broody most of last summer---in triple digit heat she was still stealing all the other hens' eggs & rolling them over to her nest. This year I'm putting her to work on runner duck eggs.

 

[silkydragon]

large fowl cochins are good broodys and so are silkys but i couldnt imagine a silkie sitting on a 1lb egg but if you cross a silky with as standard will still make an awesome broody but silkys and cochins are the 2most likely breeds to go broody and a cochin is pretty big

 

[gvntofly05]

That's so cool! It must feel awesome to be a part of something so special!

 

[evonne]

oohh fun stuff.... hope they have a safe and wonderful "working vacation"