Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[Johnn]

What age can chicks drink apple cider vinegar?

 

[annabell254]

What a great Thread ! I have a question I just got 8 silkies this year to brood for me next year....can I put goose and duck eggs under them as well

...would I still need to mist them every day or twice a day? also when I go to build my broody house should I build seperate compartments..like with eggers or just one big space that they can all fit in...I hear they go broody togeatther is this better worse or about the same as far a hachability goes?

 

[JoshU]

I have a silkie that hadnt laid an egg since april. You all told me to give her scrambled eggs with red pepper. So i did. And i have now gotten 4 eggs in 5 days. Some will say she would ha e done this either way but she has never layed an egg 2 days in a row. Let alone four in five days. I say it works. Thanks guys.

 

[JoshU]

ok but it takes every two days she lays a egg will the eggs get cold over the nights and then the eggs will not hatch if she go's broody on that clutch or will they hatch and so i let her lay every other day and then after she lays so many she will go broody

They will hatch. Let them build up and forget about them. Thats the thing........these hens are much better at it than we are.

 

[bobbieschicks]

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What age can chicks drink apple cider vinegar?

I didn't know there was an age limit. I've had it in everyone's water. Birth and up.

 

[bobbieschicks]

What a great Thread ! I have a question I just got 8 silkies this year to brood for me next year....can I put goose and duck eggs under them as well ...would I still need to mist them every day or twice a day? also when I go to build my broody house should I build seperate compartments..like with eggers or just one big space that they can all fit in...I hear they go broody togeatther is this better worse or about the same as far a hachability goes?

I don't know about hatching nonchicken eggs so hopefully miss Lydia will answer.
But I do know about housing broodies.

I would recommend building in flexibility if possible. Sometimes they like to brood together other times they will fight and injure one another. Maybe make the room so you can partition areas or open them up depending on who is broody at the time. I wired off a section of my main coop and stapled landscape fabric between two broodies for privacy because they hate each other and they were both broody at the same time.

They don't need much room to sit. Just a nestbix size area. However if you are not letting them out each day you will need room for food, water and poo to happen. Also after they hatch you will need space for babies if you aren't letting them back with the flock right away.

 

[Johnn]

I didn't know there was an age limit. I've had it in everyone's water. Birth and up.
Oh great thanks!

 

[bobbieschicks]

I have a silkie that hadnt laid an egg since april. You all told me to give her scrambled eggs with red pepper. So i did. And i have now gotten 4 eggs in 5 days. Some will say she would ha e done this either way but she has never layed an egg 2 days in a row. Let alone four in five days. I say it works. Thanks guys.

That's great! Hope she keeps it up for you

 

[seabright]

any body know if seabrights go broody?

 

[Tripp16]

any body know if seabrights go broody?

I almost got one of those from a friend. I did some research and everything I saw said that they could but they dont normally.