Questions I have about hatching chicks

[JacinLarkwell]

broodiness can be triggered by a nest full of eggs, or golf balls...

Only for select birds. Mine couldn't care less about a nest full of eggs, and half the time they're broody breeds

 

[PianoTheSilkie]

Only for select birds. Mine couldn't care less about a nest full of eggs, and half the time they're broody breeds

Huh. I must have had strange luck because with all the hens I tried the golf balls, it worked lol

 

[50-45-1]

a nest full of eggs,

A good way to end up with lots of rotten eggs, or broken eggs that make a mess on your best box, or even worse start an egg eating issue with your hens.
Golf balls are a better idea.
Some hens will never go broody.
My most dependable broodies are my jap bantam hens. One of mine is brooding 3 golf balls now and Michigan temps are hovering around zero.
If she is still determined at end of March, I will give her a few eggs. She hatches for me each year.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

A good way to end up with lots of rotten eggs, or broken eggs that make a mess on your best box, or even worse start an egg eating issue with your hens.
Golf balls are a better idea.
Some hens will never go broody.
My most dependable broodies are my jap bantam hens. One of mine is brooding 3 golf balls now and Michigan temps are hovering around zero.
If she is still determined at end of March, I will give her a few eggs. She hatches for me each year.

I had a japanese, who was a decent mom. Technically hatched 5, but got off the nest and the batch got all messed up. One stayed with her, 1 moved into a different nest box (they're those storage crates in Wal-Mart with the circle holes and it wandered though one into the other box) 2 fell between and would have been missed if they weren't screaming, and one that dried out while trying to break out of the shell and didn't make it. She lost one about a week in, almost lost them all, but didn't lose anymore. To this day though, the one that had stayed with her is her favorite and she almost didn't take back the other 3

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

What way is that?

Using herbs. I have done it.

 

[PepsiCatt]

thank u thank u , i thought there was no hope to get Eclipse back into brooding! i will try the herbs as soon as i can!

 

[Nero70002]

What breed is/are the chicken/s you might use to hatch them?

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

thank u thank u , i thought there was no hope to get Eclipse back into brooding! i will try the herbs as soon as i can!

Well, theres certain ones you use.

 

[PepsiCatt]

well, i have a broody (or not) hen Eclipse, a bantam, and i accedently got her out of her brood

 

[JacinLarkwell]

well, i have a broody (or not) hen Eclipse, a bantam, and i accedently got her out of her brood

You'll just have to hope she goes broody again on her own. If it was easy enough to make one broody, we all would be doing it