Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[Johnn]

 

[groverlvchx]

Cute, Johnn!

 

[jesirose]

That chick was way overdue tho...

 

[Johnn]

Cute, Johnn!

I would like to say "Thanks" but I can't take credit for it because I didn't make it!

 

[Johnn]

That chick was way overdue tho...

I know I thought that too haha!

 

[Johnn]

Daisy and the baby have moved themselves into the big shed with all the other girls in!

 

[CGinJCMO]

Has anyone had success with eggs hatching in the bator after the broody quit? I'm really hoping because I lost two of these eggs to a juvenile that she hatched out last time and only had 5 left.

My broody hatched 3, I finished off incubating 5 more. One died in the incubator, Mama hen accepted the remaining 4. One more died a day or two later, but Mama raised 6. Now they are seven weeks old and she's finished raising them (wont let them near her on the roost and if they get within 2 feet of her she'll chase them off).

My question to the group...when a broody is done raising chicks, I know they'll take a week or two before they start laying again. My question is will her eggs look like new pullet eggs? The reason I ask is because I have 15 chickens. Today, I got 13 eggs. I have 6 new chickens but I think one is a cockerel, and I got 6 small eggs. I am trying to figure out if the suspected cockerel is really a pullet after all or if the year old broody hen is laying already. (The other theory is that one of my Easter Egger pullets isn't laying blue eggs but brown.)

I got a "fart" egg last week - it was smaller than a pullet or bantam egg, dark dark brown shell (I don't have hens that lay that dark normally) and it had no yolk. That may have been her first egg since going broody. Since then I've been getting 3 brown small eggs. These new eggs are either 1) her eggs, 2) EE laying non blue or green eggs, or 3) cockerel really is pullet.

CG

 

[jesirose]

Easter eggers can lay brown - especially pinky-brown

 

[2rain]

I had a broody hen that hid 3 eggs from us and kept the other 3 probably with the intention of moving all of them later to this day we never found the eggs

but the pips should be out any day so excited! This is her

 

[chickydee64]

I had a broody hen that hid 3 eggs from us and kept the other 3 probably with the intention of moving all of them later to this day we never found the eggs

but the pips should be out any day

so excited! This is her

They can be so sneaky............

I had a hen recently that I was trying to break.discovered she was stealing eggs from the nests and hiding them...........
Little devil.finally gave her 2 chicks and I swear she is smilng..............