Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[Johnn]

 

[Johnn]

 

[Miss Lydia]

 

[Johnn]

Im so in love with my little maran chick!!!, im so happy i can keep him, hes always running a head of everyone else for dinner, he lets me stroke him (well when hes not looking), i just hope he dosen't turn out to be agressive. I have had a bad experience with Cuckoo maran cockerels :/

 

[Miss Lydia]

Im so in love with my little maran chick!!!, im so happy i can keep him, hes always running a head of everyone else for dinner, he lets me stroke him (well when hes not looking), i just hope he dosen't turn out to be agressive. I have had a bad experience with Cuckoo maran cockerels :/

He sure is cute, I have been able to tame them down pretty good by picking them up and carrying them around while doing things around the yard. When they are young.

 

[Johnn]

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look at him thinking hes the man!

 

[Miss Lydia]

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look at him thinking hes the man!

yep he's the man alright

 

[ll]

My broody getting some sun today ~ dustbathing herself & the babies too.

 

[they'reHISchickens]

This has been the year of the broody at our house. We lost count of how many clutches we hatched, including 2 of guinea eggs and 2 that we sold with the spare broodys.
Now our two hens of the first hatch this spring started laying: Eileen is a marans/EE and laying a beautiful camo-olive-green egg, and Cecelia-EE- a lovely pure blue. These are exactly what we are hoping for.
Cecelia's nest we found in the garden weeds last week. She flies well and never stays in when she can be out. Fortunately, her daddy Barney is also an excellent roo for young hens and youngsters and gathered her under his watchful eye. We removed the 9 eggs from the nest and replaced them with a few dummies. So, three days and eggs later, she decides to set on the nest. She was only hatched this April! She has only laid a dozen eggs! It's September, for heaven's sake! What does she think she is doing? Silly chicken.
We'd love to have more blue egg babies, but her eggs are not nearly the size they should be. So tonight I lifted Cecelia off the nest and she went in the broodybreaking pen this evening. I added her buddy Eileen to keep her company.

 

[ll]

This has been the year of the broody at our house. We lost count of how many clutches we hatched, including 2 of guinea eggs and 2 that we sold with the spare broodys.
Now our two hens of the first hatch this spring started laying: Eileen is a marans/EE and laying a beautiful camo-olive-green egg, and Cecelia-EE- a lovely pure blue. These are exactly what we are hoping for.
Cecelia's nest we found in the garden weeds last week. She flies well and never stays in when she can be out. Fortunately, her daddy Barney is also an excellent roo for young hens and youngsters and gathered her under his watchful eye. We removed the 9 eggs from the nest and replaced them with a few dummies. So, three days and eggs later, she decides to set on the nest. She was only hatched this April! She has only laid a dozen eggs! It's September, for heaven's sake! What does she think she is doing? Silly chicken.
We'd love to have more blue egg babies, but her eggs are not nearly the size they should be. So tonight I lifted Cecelia off the nest and she went in the broodybreaking pen this evening. I added her buddy Eileen to keep her company.