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[La Casa de Pollo]

Your cochin egg is nice size! Hope if mine ever lays they are big like that

My EE are sorta blue--but the pic makes them look bluer than they are, they have a kind of grayish greenish blue thing going on. Big though. My brown ones are so funny they are as round as can be.
Your partridge rock---that is crazy how you got the huge one and then the regular ones are smaller! I would have thought they would be bigger. Maybe your BR will give you big ones....I am hoping mine will....but my girl seems smaller than most BR, she is the sweetest thing, but kinda petite. I will def post a pic when I get her first, after I settle down from the excitement

hope its soon. She has never made a peep and this morning she was grumbling an awful lot out in the run when I let her out of the coop, and pacing (seemed nervous to me, might be wishful thinking!)

 

[brlarson84]

Does anyone know where I could get an old english game hen here in utah? I hear that they go broody often and are great mothers. I would like to try having a hen hatch a clutch eggs for my flock this year. Thanks for your help!

 

[Cynthia12]

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I know where you can get some Nankins..they look close to English, but are more in demand. I just came from his farm. They are darling. The roos are beautiful. Didn't ask him if he wanted to give up a pair or not, he has plenty though!

 

[Cynthia12]

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I know where you can get some Nankins..they look close to English, but are more in demand. I just came from his farm. They are darling. The roos are beautiful. Didn't ask him if he wanted to give up a pair or not, he has plenty though!

Oh, and if you are wanting a broody, most bantams go broody, I just had a cochin hen finish up with babies, and now she is broody again! Kind of like Lisa's persistent Japanese!

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

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I know where you can get some Nankins..they look close to English, but are more in demand. I just came from his farm. They are darling. The roos are beautiful. Didn't ask him if he wanted to give up a pair or not, he has plenty though!

Oh, and if you are wanting a broody, most bantams go broody, I just had a cochin hen finish up with babies, and now she is broody again! Kind of like Lisa's persistent Japanese!

Speaking of which.....guess who is at it again. Made it 12 days.

I give up

 

[Cynthia12]

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Oh, and if you are wanting a broody, most bantams go broody, I just had a cochin hen finish up with babies, and now she is broody again! Kind of like Lisa's persistent Japanese!

Speaking of which.....guess who is at it again. Made it 12 days.

I give up

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/110976_m20120105_135951.jpg

Put that ice bag under her butt!

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

I went out and squirted her with a water bottle, it really made her mad lol. She sat there and squawked at me and would not budge. I think she hates me now

I put her out in the yard to run around so she cannot get in the coop. Ice bag is going in next time I catch her haha great idea Cynthia!

 

[brlarson84]

Lol it is funny how when you want a broody hen you can't find one and when you want them to lay they become broody. I had an orpington last year who was broody for forever finally I read about puting her in a bucket of cold water to her shoulders for a few minutes I did that twice and it worked great. I thought she would hate it but she was pretty calm.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

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oh I am all over that idea! Somebody else mentioned that a while back. I had forgotten, thanks for this post!

 

[brlarson84]

Cynthia, I have read up on nankins and they seem like a great breed for brooding however I have never had a bantam. Although I would keep her separate during incubation I have heard some bad stories about introducing a bantam to a full sized flock. Do you have any experience with this?