Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[BarnGoddess01]

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Please be sure to post and in all your excitement don't forget pics, we'll be waiting

x2 ... we need some new happy little fuzz butts on this thread again!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Please be sure to post and in all your excitement don't forget pics, we'll be waiting

x2 ... we need some new happy little fuzz butts on this thread again!!

X3!

 

[Skittlez]

Here is my newest addition. I have had 9 broodies so far this year. 4 hens brooded twice and 1 new broody. By the time the late summer broodies started, the molting had started and my egg production was down. So, I gave this broody 3 duck eggs. 1 hatched and 1 is in the bator, it seemed a few days behind. I don't think it will hatch tho. I took eggs out of the fridge for broody #9. We'll see what they do. My broody in the basement is due this weekend. She has 4 eggs left. Here is Pebbles with her solo duckling.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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How adorable, what breed of duck, Congrats to you, I had 9 broodys this year also. Stoneykill was the winner though with 14 I believe.

 

[Skittlez]

How adorable, what breed of duck, Congrats to you, I had 9 broodys this year also. Stoneykill was the winner though with 14 I believe.

Thank you. It is a Khaki Campbell. I wasn't going to do ducks until Spring, but I ran out of fertile chicken eggs and I don't have the motivation to break a broody.

I wish the other 2 had hatched also, that way the duckling had some friends. So far it is doing good with mamma. The baby got in his water dish to play and mamma said "get out of there right now!" It was so funny, she couldn't figure out what baby was doing.

Wow, 14 broodies! My dining room isn't big enough for 14. 4 at a time twice was bad enough.​

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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That is SERIOUSLY cute!!

I have 3 silkie eggs (2 whites and a blue) in the incubator right now. I can only hope that at least one hatches out a future broody ....

 

[stonykill]

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Thank you. It is a Khaki Campbell. I wasn't going to do ducks until Spring, but I ran out of fertile chicken eggs and I don't have the motivation to break a broody.

I wish the other 2 had hatched also, that way the duckling had some friends. So far it is doing good with mamma. The baby got in his water dish to play and mamma said "get out of there right now!" It was so funny, she couldn't figure out what baby was doing.

Wow, 14 broodies! My dining room isn't big enough for 14. 4 at a time twice was bad enough.

yup 14 broody's this year. "Mama" is hiding her eggs again. I need to find that nest or it will be 15....

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Thank you. It is a Khaki Campbell. I wasn't going to do ducks until Spring, but I ran out of fertile chicken eggs and I don't have the motivation to break a broody.

I wish the other 2 had hatched also, that way the duckling had some friends. So far it is doing good with mamma. The baby got in his water dish to play and mamma said "get out of there right now!" It was so funny, she couldn't figure out what baby was doing.

Wow, 14 broodies! My dining room isn't big enough for 14. 4 at a time twice was bad enough.

yup 14 broody's this year. "Mama" is hiding her eggs again. I need to find that nest or it will be 15....

you know you want more chicks stony!

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Thank you. It is a Khaki Campbell. I wasn't going to do ducks until Spring, but I ran out of fertile chicken eggs and I don't have the motivation to break a broody.

I wish the other 2 had hatched also, that way the duckling had some friends. So far it is doing good with mamma. The baby got in his water dish to play and mamma said "get out of there right now!" It was so funny, she couldn't figure out what baby was doing.

Wow, 14 broodies! My dining room isn't big enough for 14. 4 at a time twice was bad enough.

you had 4 broodies in your dining room?

I had an indoor duckling for 3 months because mama duck wanted to kill it, it was fun, but glad he is with the rest of the ducks now.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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yup 14 broody's this year. "Mama" is hiding her eggs again. I need to find that nest or it will be 15....

you know you want more chicks stony!

Well, he DID have a loss earlier ... probably needs to replenish