Ordering chicks today and getting a bator, question!

[gritsar]

I am going to order my spring chicks today and I'm getting a bator this week.

Given these facts, how long should it take for my current hens to go broody?

 

[carriehelene]

Well, if your chickens do the same as mine did, it will be exactly 7 days after you set the eggs

 

[Mandalina]

i am betting 10days

 

[gritsar]

When it happens I'll be even more convinced that chickens were put on this earth for the sole purpose of driving me insane. Not that it's a long drive, but still.

 

[seminolewind]

Are you ordering chicks or eggs? If you want it's okay to take them out of the bator and put them under a broody. Why not.

 

[Ridgerunner]

If you set enough eggs in the bator that you could switch to a hen if she went broody, 22, maybe 23 days. If you set too many eggs to get them all under her, less than a week.

Out of curiosity, which bator you getting?

 

[gritsar]

A wonderful friend is sending me a bator.
I plan an order of 12 chicks from Ideal in early May.
Really, my broody-challenged hens are just waiting for the chance to mess with me. Need to be offering more bread I guess.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I can laugh, because that's EXACTLY what I did. And you know what? I hatched out my eggs 12 1/2 weeks ago and I still don't have a broody! But hatching is fun too. It would just be nice to not have to do the heat lamp thing.


I tell you, the only way WE are going to get a broody is when we have no more room for chickens.

 

[redhen]

As soon as they see the mail man with the incubator..they'll go broody.
Its Murphys Broody Law....

 

[the Pollo Loco]

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