should I or shouldn't I?

[duck walk]

give my newly broody standard black cochin hen Wilma eggs to hatch? I have fertile eggs but they are mixes...the two roos are Welsummer and Columbian Wyandote...the hens are Mottled Java, Buff Catalana, Brown Leghorn, GL Cochin, EEs, and a WF Black Spanish...there is a shot at pure Columbain Wyandots as I have two hens of that type...Wilma is sitting hard on two golf balls for two days now...thinking about giving her today's eggs and the ones I did not put in the frig from yesterday...and I got my first duck eggs yesterday from the older four females...Larry, Darrel and Darrel have been chasing those poor girls to death so I know those eggs are fertile...Larry is Rouen with three girls and Darrel and Darrel are Pekins with sixteen girls but only two laying...Larry is the big stuf mufin out there...I think Darrel and Darrel and just thinking wistfully so those would be mixes as well...will decide in the next couple of hours...any thoughts? About the potential mixes...I have room for a few more chicks but was hoping to pick up some BOs, Rhode Island Reds and maybe a few more EEs later on...

 

[Judy]

I don't know which eggs, but I'd give her some; it's the quickest, simplest way to deal with a broody, to let her do her thing.

 

[cmom]

Give her some eggs to hatch......

 

[duck walk]

well...I did it...Wilma has green eggs, brown eggs and two white eggs...what the heck...never had a Cochin go broody but I have heard they are great mothers...I gave her ten as she is quite the big girl...she could handle several more but ten is enough...now I am kind of happy about the prospect of some new babies running around...

 

[catwalk]

Good luck with her! I gave my first time broody an egg out of my incubator. If hatched a few days later, and she is a great mom! I gave her the other four out of the hatch, and she looks like she's been doing this all her life.