Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[Johnn]

Is she still clucking to them?

yes...

 

[aoxa]

yes...

BO's are great moms. Wish they weren't so low in the pecking order though. I don't have my girl any more. She had an awful time kick starting her laying after her broody period, and laid weird uneven eggs and then a triple yolker broke inside of her, causing infection. Poor thing.. I tried everything to help her. She was a broody I wanted to have around forever.

 

[Johnn]

BO's are great moms. Wish they weren't so low in the pecking order though. I don't have my girl any more. She had an awful time kick starting her laying after her broody period, and laid weird uneven eggs and then a triple yolker broke inside of her, causing infection. Poor thing.. I tried everything to help her. She was a broody I wanted to have around forever.

After my orp was broody she got higher in the pecking order, she dosent give them a peck she gives them a beating!

 

[aoxa]

After my orp was broody she got higher in the pecking order, she dosent give them a peck she gives them a beating!

Mine did too, but during her setting, she often took beatings when I would kick her out. I had been trying to break her, as we were in the process of moving. She was a hard one!

 

[bobbieschicks]

   see I find if any one is going to be an issue it is another hen. Never had a rooster go after a chick. And I have too many roosters. But flock dynamics differ. 

My first broody attempt with Smokey I also had a White Leghorn rooster here. On the 2nd day he jumped up into the broody area,picked up a wellie and flung it.

 

[Johnn]

My roosters so horrible, he gets pecks the hens when feeding because he likes a feeder to him self. Today the orp and the chicks were having a bowl of food and rocky went up behinf them and pecked the orp and then the chicks and the two chicks let out such a peep, poor things..

 

[Johnn]

Melows back to her old self now , (white egg is hers, cant believe she didn't lay blue!)

 

[stonykill]

My first broody attempt with Smokey I also had a White Leghorn rooster here. On the 2nd day he jumped up into the broody area,picked up a wellie and flung it.

yes I remember that. I'm sure breed matters. White Leghorns are naturally freaky skiddish creatures.

 

[aoxa]

yes I remember that. I'm sure breed matters. White Leghorns are naturally freaky skiddish creatures.

My boys are sooo sweet.

Jagger with a broody boy (10 weeks or so here)

None of my non-broody hens would ever consider doing such a thing My boys do it on a regular basis.

 

[bobbieschicks]

  yes I remember that. I'm sure breed matters. White Leghorns are naturally freaky skiddish creatures. 

Absolutely the breed matters. I see it in Topsy's two new babies. The Lavender Orpington/Silkie mix chick is mellow and quiet. Easy to catch. The EE/WL/Silkie mix chick is quick and flighty. Hard to catch like her mother is and her grandfather WL Roo was.