Please read :) mrs priss May be broody!!!

[Jman45]

L so I bought a yellow buff Orpington hen along with two pullets and a young roo yesterday. And today I saw mrs priss ( oldest hen 1.5 years) making her nest and laid her egg today. Well my Dominique laid eggs to do I went and out there eggs in her nest. And what do you know, I come out there and she’s setting on them!!! She is currently sleeping in the eggs right now ))) reply with thoughts ( and I know if she wanted to roost with younger ones, she would cause she is at the top of the pecking order)

 

[Tiana's chickens]

Sounds like she's possibly broody or about to lay an egg. Very exciting!

 

[Jman45]

Sounds like she's possibly broody or about to lay an egg. Very exciting!

She already laid her egg today

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Maybe,buffs are supposedly fairly prone to be broody hens.

 

[Jman45]

Sounds like she's possibly broody or about to lay an egg. Very exciting!

Nope, yellow buff Orpingtons usually will go broody and are great mothers!

 

[TheTwoRoos]

So will you be letting her hatch?

 

[Jman45]

So will you be letting her hatch?

Yes, when I bought her she was around different breeds of roo’s. So I put ONE of her own laid eggs under her and about 3 or 4 Dominique eggs under her

 

[TheTwoRoos]

How long has she been away from them?

 

[Jman45]

How long has she been away from them?

Been away from what? The eggs. She didn’t realize I placed her eggs in her nest until she later went back up and saw them. Later on, sAw her setting on them as well as rotating the eggs. She is currently sleeping on them right now

 

[TheTwoRoos]

No the roosters,the eggs may not be fertile escpecially if they were laid within the past few days