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[sdm111]

Yeah dark is good. I just wish it wasnt the neighbors yard. I dont want to just jump back there without permission, but the guy is never home it seems. (I can see his truck when he is.)

well he knows they're there putting feed out

 

[JShubin]

That is awesome! We have had 2 hens go broody within the past week, a Radio hen and a Roundhead. We weren't raising from those hens so I just replaced their eggs with some we were going to put in the incubator. Saves me some work. I gave them each 8 since our temps here are still cold at night. Both hens are now sitting on Penny/Radio eggs. Plus I plan on giving them each a few more chicks from the incubator I set at the same time. They are gonna be busy girls. Broody hens make me happy!

Dang they'll be busy alright. Good timing.

Its definitely spring here, slight summer feel in the midday. I have several brooding right now. Not swapping any eggs tho. I just let em hatch what they got and do my selecting later. I dont keep hens just for brooders, all my hens I keep each year are worth breeding imo and its a bonus if they brood too.

Id guess 50 hatched chicks so far.

 

[sdm111]

The only way we can find a free ranging broody's nest usually is wait til you see her come off to eat at feeding time and then follow her back.  It is easier said than done though.. they are elusive little buggers and will try to shake you off their trail.  lol  They are the best nest hiders.. 

The stag thing works though.  You take a stag out of a pen on the other side of the property a free ranging stag isn't used to seeing and put him out in a drop pen or on a tie cord close to where the free ranging stag hangs around, and you can catch the free ranging stag when they go to fighting.  Works like a charm.  

sounds good a distant associate said it worked I keep all mine penned

 

[JShubin]

The only way we can find a free ranging broody's nest usually is wait til you see her come off to eat at feeding time and then follow her back. It is easier said than done though.. they are elusive little buggers and will try to shake you off their trail. lol They are the best nest hiders..

The stag thing works though. You take a stag out of a pen on the other side of the property a free ranging stag isn't used to seeing and put him out in a drop pen or on a tie cord close to where the free ranging stag hangs around, and you can catch the free ranging stag when they go to fighting. Works like a charm.

Yeah agree works great on stags, this is my standard method of capturing lol.... I dont think this hen cares about stags tho. I know where she is at now but I just have to talk to the neighbor and have him help me out like last time... we took away all but 2 chicks from last hen. She eventually made her way to my house for food. The neighbor should stop feeding them or else they will stay lol.

 

[KF0002]

Dang they'll be busy alright. Good timing.

Its definitely spring here, slight summer feel in the midday. I have several brooding right now. Not swapping any eggs tho. I just let em hatch what they got and do my selecting later. I dont keep hens just for brooders, all my hens I keep each year are worth breeding imo and its a bonus if they brood too.

Id guess 50 hatched chicks so far.

That's excellent! We have had a lot going on this year so we aren't raising the numbers we usually do. I am back in nursing school and the hubby has been working crazy overtime so we are just raising what we need future show/brood fowl. Nothing extra.. and culling through crossed pullets as soon as we can tell stags from pullets.

Yeah agree works great on stags, this is my standard method of capturing lol.... I dont think this hen cares about stags tho. I know where she is at now but I just have to talk to the neighbor and have him help me out like last time... we took away all but 2 chicks from last hen. She eventually made her way to my house for food. The neighbor should stop feeding them or else they will stay lol

Yep hens like to stay off to themselves when they've got babies. And if they are being fed they won't have any reason to come back until the chicks are weaned.. if even then. She will be super easy to catch when we hatches off though. Watch for her to bring her babies off the nest if you can't find her before then and just sneak up to her and set a drop pen over her. She will be more focused on the babies she won't try too hard to get away and they have to move slower with newborns. If she is super wild and flighty she will bolt though.. chicks or no chicks. lol.

 

[JShubin]

She will be super easy to catch when we hatches off though. Watch for her to bring her babies off the nest if you can't find her before then and just sneak up to her and set a drop pen over her. She will be more focused on the babies she won't try too hard to get away and they have to move slower with newborns. If she is super wild and flighty she will bolt though.. chicks or no chicks. lol.

She is already walking them around to different areas in the neighbors yard... when I went to get her she was kicking, flying, and flipping out and chicks were running through chain link fences. I didnt have a chance hahahaha!

 

[KF0002]

She is already walking them around to different areas in the neighbors yard... when I went to get her she was kicking, flying, and flipping out and chicks were running through chain link fences. I didnt have a chance hahahaha!

Oh well dang.. sounds like you will have to go on a chicken hunt at night then. Or stake her out at the edge of dark and see where she takes them.

 

[JShubin]

good friday chicks. Mom is grey and dad is my avatar. Toppy asil grey . This clutch is right at 3/4 grey 1/16 toppy 1/8 asil

congrats dude. on your way to making that your own line.

That avatar is nice btw... a lot bigger than I thought now that I see him in your arms (for size reference. )

 

[shoelby08]

Good luck catch mama and biddies, I had to move years ago and had a LOT o free range birds so I enlisted the help of a few trusted neighborhood kids that knew my birds anyway. We caught most of em but also left that neighborhood really populated!!Cast nets work good for getting the biddies, and mama won't be far.

 

[flypen]

I woke up to find a crime scene, I found the hen with her sister and missing quite a few feathers.

Then I found where the culprit walked across my golf cart seat.

Dang house cat