Plymouth Rock thread!

[PEI chicken]

Hi Rachel

Good luck with your layers . . . sounds promising that more are starting to lay. Sounds like your broody is determined to sit on eggs. Somewhere on this website there are some suggestions on how to stop the broodiness. I read where someone placed an icepack in the nest! :cd That just might work?

Let us know if you find a way to deal with the broody hen.

I got 2 brown eggs today from my spprs, so now I know that at least two of them have started to lay. Hopefully by the time Christmas rolls around they will be laying enough eggs to feed breakfast to my Christmas visitors.

Bye for now.

 

[DMRippy]

Ice packs did NOT work for me.... I find the easiest way to break a broody, MOVE THEM, put them in a new pen, a new roo will help too. I had 2 broodies and moved them.... that didn't really work, so I put a young roo in with them.... poor guy, still didn't work great... I kept moving birds in and out of the pen next to them and finally after about a week of being in a new pen with all kinds of activity, they are not broody now.... still not laying

I read to put a broody in a wire cage and hang it. No nesting material. The air circulating under her should break her, but I have not tried that.

 

[bird sitter]

Ok.....?

 

[DMRippy]

Ok.....?

You will get sexlinked something???????????

 

[bird sitter]

Hmmm. Wonder if it's possible to get a barred polish. I know there is a barred Japanese bantam and serama.

 

[Vcomb]

Hmmm. Wonder if it's possible to get a barred polish. I know there is a barred Japanese bantam and serama.

They exist in "self" cuckoo (non white crested) also.

 

[bird sitter]

OMG! Are those yours? And is there a certain percent to get them?

 

[DMRippy]

OMG! Are those yours? And is there a certain percent to get them?

Might want to visit the Polish thread

 

[Vcomb]

They are mine. The gene for the barring came from barred rocks years ago as I recall. You wouldn't want to cross anything into them now. You can breed them straight (male has 2 copies of the barring gene which is why he is lighter) or cross them to w.c. blacks.

 

[bird sitter]

That's what doing right now lol thanks for the pics!