Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

[EggWalrus]

I'm in, like it or not. I've had at least 6 broodies sitting on eggs for the last week. There may be more broodies hiding that aren't in the regular nests. Couple of weeks and I'll be over run with biddies!
Woo Hoo!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I'm in, like it or not. I've had at least 6 broodies sitting on eggs for the last week. There may be more broodies hiding that aren't in the regular nests. Couple of weeks and I'll be over run with biddies!
Woo Hoo!

I can't think of anything better to be overrun with! lol

I'm curious, how big is your flock? Last year I had about 8 broody hens in my small flock and I already have my first broody of the year now too! I'm glad to hear there's someone else out there overrun with broody hens!

 

[FortCluck]

I need a broody

 

[aliciaplus3]

I have 2 more turkey hens who think they should have babies... took em off the nest, 2 big buts in one box, so maybe they will go back to laying?

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

I just did a quick candling to try and thin down to 1 incubator. I found 8 eggs I'm comfortable purging. 2 were shipped eggs and 6 refrigerated table eggs. The shipped eggs breeds were 1 Pavlovskaya and 1 Golden Spitzhauben.

I combined the remaining 52 eggs into the still air incubator. They're all on their sides and being hand turned.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I have 2 more turkey hens who think they should have babies... took em off the nest, 2 big buts in one box, so maybe they will go back to laying?

I have a really hard time telling my broodies no...I pretty much always let them hatch chicks. lol

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

So jealous of everyone with a broodies. I love having some around the place. Too many does get irksome though. Hopefully this batch of chicks will produce 1-2 when they grow up.

 

[Mtnboomer]

Not hatching any more birds until May-June-ish here. Garden preparations begin in earnest in about 2-3 wks. Potatoes and cool weather greens in the ground in 6wks. No time.

 

[aliciaplus3]

I have a really hard time telling my broodies no...I pretty much always let them hatch chicks. lol

Last summer I had like 12 or 15 chicken hens trying to sit.... problem was they kept switching nest and wasting eggs. So I finally just let the whole bunch have 8 eggs total they managed to hatch 5 babies... one broody scalped one so the 2 that had live ones under them got to raise 2 each. Whew what a wreck!
I would have given a free broody to any one who would take it!
Now this broody turkey thing I just put the chosen girl in a dog crate and if she settles back on the nest she gets shut in, fed and watered and given the chance.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

So jealous of everyone with a broodies. I love having some around the place. Too many does get irksome though. Hopefully this batch of chicks will produce 1-2 when they grow up.

I was definitely concerned when I had 3 broody hens lined up side by side last year. I only have 1 broody pen so I put my proven broody into the pen and left the other 2 in the coop. It was the cutest thing though because the other 2 broody hens ended up co-parenting.