Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[BarnGoddess01]

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I'm going to have to plan a broodie kidnapping road trip! I'm SOOOOO jealous. And my incubator is loaded yet again. You with all your cuteness and stony with cuteness due any day now ... <sigh>

I can only hope my tiny puff ball 4 week old Silkie in the basement is FEMALE ....

Congrats, by the way, and I hope more good news is on the way

(Freddie, my Frizzle, isn't going to be brooding eggs any time soon, that's for sure!

At least he's entertaining - and, he comes when he's called!!!

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lol, my 1st thought was " I have cuteness everyday" lol

I'm waiting....sorta patiently.....

stony - New York isn't that far away from me.

You will be the FIRST stop on my broody raiding road trip!!!!

(maybe some of those workshop raised chicks would actually be able to tolerate my central vac!!! Right now, the poor kids in the basement take HOURS to recover whenever I try to clean my house. I fear I will have a dirty house for Christmas because I just can't bring myself to turn the vacuum on .... )

 

[stonykill]

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lol, my 1st thought was " I have cuteness everyday" lol

I'm waiting....sorta patiently.....

stony - New York isn't that far away from me.

You will be the FIRST stop on my broody raiding road trip!!!!

 

[stonykill]

funny broody story...about Mama of course. She has this thing, where after she comes running, screaming, then flying 50 yards or so out of her shed, she looks for me. Well, she knows that when I know she (or any other broody for that matter, just don't tell mama) I give then a private meal. So yesterday morning, she FLYS (literally, she is a Sumatra) 1/2 way across the yard, then runs around screaming at everyone. I see, and hear her as I'm feeding everyone else, and walk away from the group of 30 or so Sumatra's eating around my feet. As I walk she follows me. I give her food. She looks at me, puffs up, and pecks my boots. Fine, I bend down and dump her food out of the bowl and she eats off the ground. I stand with her for a minute, then start to walk away. She usually just stays and eats. Not yesterday, she follows me, puffed up, attacking my feet. So I stop and look at her and say outloud "mama, what?" I walk, she pecks me. "ohhh," I say to her... "you want water, it's over hear. " I walk to the water, and show it to her, and start to walk away. She runs after me and pecks me again. Her water was skinned over with ice. I broke the skim of ice with my boot, and she drank, and then went back to eat, then her nest.

And people say chickens are stupid.....

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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That's a GREAT story - and SO true. My ONE AND ONLY broody did the same sort of thing to me. It's like they KNOW we are in it with them. (That crazy broody of mine will still peck me if I'm not paying attention to her! I can only hope Liz chooses to go broody again. She was a BRILLIANT mom.)

 

[artsyrobin]

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LOL! they are smart! and i have had a broody epidemic! last spring Izzy a cochin mix went broody, then Flo went broody, then Noel, both silkies, then flo no sooner hatched that batch then she went broody again! and again, then cindylou! sheesh!

 

[stonykill]

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LOL! they are smart! and i have had a broody epidemic! last spring Izzy a cochin mix went broody, then Flo went broody, then Noel, both silkies, then flo no sooner hatched that batch then she went broody again! and again, then cindylou! sheesh!

I hear ya. Mama is on her 3rd brood this year. And she is # 16 for the year. Crazy girls....

 

[perchie.girl]

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They are very good at training people for sure.......

 

[workinnanie]

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Cute story! Love it!

 

[Tumbleweed Farm]

I have a LF Cochin sitting on 7 eggs for 3 days now. As far as I can tell she won't eat or drink. How can she survive w/o water?

 

[Johnn]

Just put her out the nest to the food and water and she will have some and go back to the nest