Hey guys,
I've enjoyed having Leghorn in my flock oh, I always add a few to my flock and I've never had a mean one, and I've never had a Broody one. I actually haven't had a Broody hen in probably 20 years. Six months ago I bought two leghorn pullets... one got taken by a predator which left me with one she's probably a year old, we just got done rearing 14 chicks from Tractor Supply which are about 10 weeks old now. I thought I was done for the season actually for the next couple of years but nature has another plan, I noticed a couple weeks ago my Leghorn was making you a special little clucking noises that I never heard before but she wasn't Broody or fluffing up.... I mentioned somewhere else I had been rearing the chicks with a shared fence with my Leghorn and my other two remaining chickens that I didn't cull... I don't know if it was the chicks she went broody a week and a half ago fully!!! I PUT EGGS ender her a day before my Bday on the 9th... all I could find were fertile eggs for $30 a dozen local or Ebay eggs which were more expensive... I found someone three streets over selling farm fresh eggs for five bucks a dozen I called her up and asked her if she has a rooster with her girls and she said yes, and sold! I bought 12..for 5$ she had bluebells jeraey giants and marans with an ee rooster... 6 eggs are bluebells the rest were mixes..after 3 days i noticed the eggs were too many I took 2 out and crackes em nothing..they were on the outer rim but they were fertile...then in the 4th day my crazy self took another egg out I cracked it and it has red veins all over...oooops.. I guess nine eggs is more manageable now than 12 for a little Leghorn.... I don't think she has done enough to eat or drink I got her to drink out of a shot glass one day that I held up to her beak.... finger crossed!!!
I've enjoyed having Leghorn in my flock oh, I always add a few to my flock and I've never had a mean one, and I've never had a Broody one. I actually haven't had a Broody hen in probably 20 years. Six months ago I bought two leghorn pullets... one got taken by a predator which left me with one she's probably a year old, we just got done rearing 14 chicks from Tractor Supply which are about 10 weeks old now. I thought I was done for the season actually for the next couple of years but nature has another plan, I noticed a couple weeks ago my Leghorn was making you a special little clucking noises that I never heard before but she wasn't Broody or fluffing up.... I mentioned somewhere else I had been rearing the chicks with a shared fence with my Leghorn and my other two remaining chickens that I didn't cull... I don't know if it was the chicks she went broody a week and a half ago fully!!! I PUT EGGS ender her a day before my Bday on the 9th... all I could find were fertile eggs for $30 a dozen local or Ebay eggs which were more expensive... I found someone three streets over selling farm fresh eggs for five bucks a dozen I called her up and asked her if she has a rooster with her girls and she said yes, and sold! I bought 12..for 5$ she had bluebells jeraey giants and marans with an ee rooster... 6 eggs are bluebells the rest were mixes..after 3 days i noticed the eggs were too many I took 2 out and crackes em nothing..they were on the outer rim but they were fertile...then in the 4th day my crazy self took another egg out I cracked it and it has red veins all over...oooops.. I guess nine eggs is more manageable now than 12 for a little Leghorn.... I don't think she has done enough to eat or drink I got her to drink out of a shot glass one day that I held up to her beak.... finger crossed!!!
