Please tell me what you do.

[Ridgerunner]

I usually start processing at 15 to 16 weeks, then do one or two a week until they are gone. In case of power outages and such I'd prefer them to be on the hoof instead of in a more perishable state, like in a freezer without power. Last year I processed my last one at 27 weeks. I'll probably be on about the same schedule again this year.

I can't answer your broody question. I've seen posts on this forum where a hen goes broody regularly about every 2 months after being broken, butI imagine some never go broody again. I think it is individual to the specific hen so there is no one correct answer for every hen.

 

[Lotsapaints]

16 to 22 weeks for dells they fill out only so much just age them in the fridge before you freeze or cook and read the heritage breeds link for cooking these are real chickens not babies lower heat tightly sealed pans work well or pressure cooking.

Hens that go broody will normally go broody again it's the not to be broody time that's hard.....I've had them set on nothing they were so determined to set you can lock them up in a wire cage for a day or two with food and water that works the best. I've been told putting those fake ice cubes under them will help but I've never tried I just move them around in a different pen with no egg boxes sometimes that will do it.

 

[write2caroline]

I have a broody who I removed eggs and her multiple times off the nest, gave her a cold bath, locked her in a broody box - she insisted on being a mom and had not layed an egg in a long time maybe 3 weeks? So I put some eggs under her and let her hatch them out - 3 of 6 hatched, she raised them - 6th week she started laying again and ignoring the chicks. So far no one else has gone broody.
Caroline

 

[rancher hicks]

Well thanks for the advice about the roos and I'm going to have to have someone teach me to process. What do I do with the innards and stuff?

As for the broody's. I took some eggs from one that was setting and seems to not want to finish after hatching one chick. I did have one got broody last fall/winter. Hatched two chicks in the dead of winter. I never knew they went broody so often.