post pics of your broody hens for 2010.

[Buck Creek Chickens]

 

[SilverPhoenix]

My girls are having a broody party in the corner of the henhouse!

Most of the time there are even more birds than this in the pile (another three or four hens are participating in the madness), and occasionally the guinea hens will join as well. My duck hen is broody about six feet away, too.

Silly birds! Too bad the main coop's cockerels are too young to fertilize anything right now or I'd have chicks everywhere. I have been sticking my serama and call duck eggs under them in hopes that I get something, though.

 

[thechickenguy]

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i was counting them and thought there was 5 but i c the head of another sticking outta the blacks feathers.

 

[chicken_china_mom]

Here are some of my broody girls. This is the first time for all of them, they all just turned a year old in April:

This is Pebbles, my Bantam Black Mottled Cochin hen:

This is Heidi, one of my two White Silkie hens. She looks bad here because this morning she decided to go get a drink from the duck pool outside rather than from the waterer inside the coop, and some feisty EE teenagers came up behind her and pushed her in. So she got all muddy and nasty, so my daughter had to bring her in and give her a quick bath and blow dry, but she didn't get the spa treatment cause we wanted to get her back outside and on her eggs again!

And this is Petunia, a.k.a. Pooty. She just went broody day before yesterday. Pebbles and Heidi are nearly done with their eggs:

I have 4 more broodies UNDER the coop too! 2 Bantam Splash Cochin hens-Dora and Peanut, my Black Silkie mixed hen- Fannie, and my Bantam Black Frizzled hen- Happy. I'm going to be drowning in chicks soon!

 

[thechickenguy]

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man oh man do i love cochins. i got 12 i think maybe 13 cant remember exactually and i just love em!!!!!! cant wait till they go broody. i love them!! yours are very pretty.

 

[Bantimna]

Chicken China Mom, your Heidi looks adorable, with her muddy head feathers!