Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[Turk Raphael]

ChickyChickens: Sorry about my excessive use of exclamations and "..." in all of my posts


I do it all the time...Most of my family does the same thing. My younger sister is the 'queen' of superfluous punctuation.

As for numbers of chickens...I have far more today than I ever expected to have running around here and the bad thing is...my 'projects' promise to increase these numbers exponentially.


Turk

 

[ChickyChickens]

ChickyChickens: Sorry about my excessive use of exclamations and "..." in all of my posts


I do it all the time...Most of my family does the same thing. My younger sister is the 'queen' of superfluous punctuation.

As for numbers of chickens...I have far more today than I ever expected to have running around here and the bad thing is...my 'projects' promise to increase these numbers exponentially.


Turk

Thanks and cool!

 

[poodlechicks]

I ALSO LOVE IT WHEN I SECRETLY DO MY FOOD CALL AND THEN THEY ALL COME RUNNING AND THEN MY GUESTS THINK THAT MY CHICKENS ARE TOTALLY EVIL!!!!

That I'd like to see

Some people run away from my chickens and all they want is to be friendly. I do secretly have a little fun with that

 

[ChickyChickens]

That I'd like to see

Some people run away from my chickens and all they want is to be friendly. I do secretly have a little fun with that

True LOL, XD and all the others people think of!

 

[ochochicas]

Give someone a grain scoop at my place and the chickens will run them down. LOL You cannot walk past the feed room door without being mobbed. I don't even have to call the chickens anymore...just walk past the door with the keys in your hand

 

[ChickyChickens]

Give someone a grain scoop at my place and the chickens will run them down. LOL You cannot walk past the feed room door without being mobbed. I don't even have to call the chickens anymore...just walk past the door with the keys in your hand

In my case I just walk anywhere with a cup lookalike in my hand and I get mobbed!

 

[AmericanMom]

In my case I just walk anywhere with a cup lookalike in my hand and I get mobbed!

LOL.. I cant even walk out with the egg basket....

 

[margaretanne]

I have 3 gold laced wyandotte hens and a rooster and one hen became broody. Soon a second became broody, both in together. When we let them out to free range, it was just the rooster and his remaining hen. Meanwhile back on the nest, eggs were getting ejected and swapped until finally they were only on a few and one hatched. The whole pen is protecting this one chicken. I cant let them out because of the cats, and if I go in, the rooster flaps. then non broody hen races to spread her wings in front of the baby and the mother fluffs up and makes evil noises at me. Problem is, the other broody hen hasnt hatched anything and is sitting on 1 egg. If the hatchling goes near her she pecks it. Is this a bad sign? Will broody no 2 be a bad mother? Should I turf her off her egg and take it away? Not sure when it was laid...didnt know to mark them,
Margaret

 

[ochochicas]

My neighbor has a broody hen that I am thinking about "borrowing" to hatch some eggs. Does anyone have any experience with importing a broody to hatch eggs. Did it work? Or was the move too stressful for the hen? I really wanted to hatch some eggs before winter, but it looks my hens are happy laying and have no intentions of going broody.

 

[maranfarmer563]

Marg candle that egg tonight to see if its good.mother hens protect their nest from other chicks,the chick will learn. Live trap the cats and take them to the SPCA for new homes