Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[Johnn]

They are beautiful and healthy looking. Nothing wrong with them staying as a family. I think it's sweet.

thankyou , if the BO chicks is a girl (thats the only way it will be kept) then i think the mother and that one will remain friends and go around together

 

[Lacy Blues]

13 weeks still with mama, she is still doing the broody cluck and the orp chick is trying to copy her!

That is so sweet! and I'll bet it gives you the giggles too! Oh wait... you're a guy, right? Sorry!

Or do guys get the giggles?

 

[Johnn]

That is so sweet! and I'll bet it gives you the giggles too! Oh wait... you're a guy, right? Sorry!

Or do guys get the giggles?

i get the giggles when im in a good mood

 

[Johnn]

also the mother was holding a seed in her mouth and clucking today and the chick pecked it out, she still likes treating them like babys, hope she goes broody again next year, thats if she survives the stoats that pass, im dreading it because the last hen killed by a stoat last year got it inoctober!!

 

[Johnn]

i just checked back to my old thread about Miley, she was broody las year and she is on the pics on the r.i.p thread, if anyone wants to know more of the story, heres the thread
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/586705/r-i-p-miley-3

 

[naturespace]

What is a sloat? I'm guessing some kind of weasel.

 

[Miss Lydia]

also the mother was holding a seed in her mouth and clucking today and the chick pecked it out, she still likes treating them like babys, hope she goes broody again next year, thats if she survives the stoats that pass, im dreading it because the last hen killed by a stoat last year got it inoctober!!

Johnn do you lock your birds up at night? about the only way we can keep preds form devastating our flocks here in the US.

 

[Johnn]

Johnn do you lock your birds up at night? about the only way we can keep preds form devastating our flocks here in the US.

she was killed through the day...

 

[Johnn]

What is a sloat? I'm guessing some kind of weasel.

yes they are, i dont really know the difference between the two so i just say stoat....

 

[bobbieschicks]

Smokey isn't going broody yet. But interestingly Topsy was sitting atop a ping pong ball this evening in the nest box along with her two 9 week olds. So don't know what that is all about.

It's starting to get colder here at night, 50F, and I really don't need any more chicks. Hoping my broodies will take a break for the winter.