Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[bobbieschicks]

It's Murphy's Law that when you only have 3 eggs that hatch and you desperately want a dark egg layer you would get all roosters instead. Lol!

I think the odds of getting Roos is still the same regardless of how many eggs you hatch. It's still a 50/50 chance of an egg hatch into a rooster. There may be a correlation between heat output and sex hatched, but I haven't personally experimented with it.

 

[bobbieschicks]

I gave Topsy two eggs the time before last hatch and one didn't hatch. I quickly slipped her one of Smokey's eggs to finish hatching and that gave them both two chicks to raise. I won't give fewer than 3 eggs in the future.

Last time I gave 5 silkie eggs to Topsy and 4 hatched.

 

[bobbieschicks]

bobbieschicks "Of course they all turned out to be cockerels", why do you say of course?? Does the maximum under the broody turn out to be cockerels?? Johnn I slipped 11 under her, she is gonna go through lot of stress in 21 days, so why not reward her with many babies

whats the least amount of eggs you guys have given you broodys to sit on??

Okay I haven't figured out the quoting thing yet on the Mobil app version of BYC. So I apologize for answering without the quotes attached.

 

[Candyman]

bobbieschicks no problem, we understand who you are referring to

 

[stonykill]

It's Murphy's Law that when you only have 3 eggs that hatch and you desperately want a dark egg layer you would get all roosters instead. Lol!
I think the odds of getting Roos is still the same regardless of how many eggs you hatch. It's still a 50/50 chance of an egg hatch into a rooster. There may be a correlation between heat output and sex hatched, but I haven't personally experimented with it.

inchickens the hen dictates the sex of the unhatched egg. Some hens produce roo heavy eggs, other pullet heavy eggs. My best broody"Mama" on her own produces roo heavy. So I swap her eggs out with other Sumatra eggs, and less rro's born, more pullets

 

[Johnn]

Bella and Asparagus have just had there first snow, Asparagus started chasing me, i don't know if it was for food or to get me, but anyways he slipped on the ice haha

 

[ApplestoApples]

Bella and Asparagus have just had there first snow, Asparagus started chasing me, i don't know if it was for food or to get me, but anyways he slipped on the ice haha

I envy you it was 65 today!

 

[Johnn]

Thaught i would let yous guys know, the orp has LEFT the chicks now and is the only hen laying now , im eating her egg as i type, havent had eggs off her in 25 weeks!

 

[mstricer]

I know the feeling, my girl stayed with her brood for over 8 weeks and still watches over them. She just started laying eggs again last week. Well worth it, I love EE eggs very big eggs.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thaught i would let yous guys know, the orp has LEFT the chicks now and is the only hen laying now , im eating her egg as i type, havent had eggs off her in 25 weeks!

Finally cut the apron strings at 25 weeks. wow I bet thats a record.