What chicken breeds are most likely to go broody?

[Kabootar]

Do you let Sparkles stay broody? I have a Houdan that has been broody for 6 weeks and I can't get her to break. I make sure she leaves nest once a day to eat and drink (and poop - yuck). thoughts?

Put one day old chicks under her in the dead of the night.

 

[Compost King]

100% of my Dorking's go broody but that breed has other issues to where I say get a Cochin or a Silkie. I love my Dorkings but they seem to be cursed with limited genetic diversity making it hard to get their chicks to reach adulthood. I had 1 out of 5 Marans went broody. 1 out of 4 Ayam Cemanis went broody. My one Japanse Bantam goes broody once a year. My Old English Game Bantams constantly go broody but end up luring their brood into death traps. Seramas go broody but its not like they are going to hatch anything but tiny eggs easily. I never got a Buff Orpington to go Broody, I was told they were likely to broody.

 

[Folly's place]

Two of my BLR Wyandottes were broody after their first year, and one Salmon Favorelle. Several Belgian d'Uccles have been broody; at least one or two every year. One of my Chanteclers tries, but gives up after two weeks.
Mary

 

[casportpony]

This is an interesting article from Leggs Peafowl and how they use Cochin banties to incubate peafowl eggs.
http://www.leggspeafowl.com/incubation---hatching-peafowl-eggs.html

 

[Compost King]

This is an interesting article from Leggs Peafowl and how they use Cochin banties to incubate peafowl eggs.
http://www.leggspeafowl.com/incubation---hatching-peafowl-eggs.html

I once considered midget white turkeys to hatch out Chickens but with my luck it would not work out and I do not like the taste of Turkey and didn't want to get stuck with one. I do like the idea of cross species hatching because someone might find that another species of bird could be much better than the species/breed they want to hatch out.

 

[tanktop74]

My Orpingtons, lavender, buff and Isabels are my broody girls.

 

[Sharwig]

Wyandotte's. I've had two Gold Laced and one Blue Laced Red (splash?) and they have all gone broody at least once a year if not more. The BLR has been the hardest one to break.

 

[varidgerunner]

With my oriental /standard game mixes that free range, it was not a question of if they were broody. It was more a matter of hunting them down to eliminate a chicken plague. About September when the February pullets from the first wave came off the nest with their first brood, about the time their mama's were coming off with their third or fifth brood, there were literally chickens coming out of the wood works. They actually broke limbs out of trees. I am not allowed to free range hens with a rooster that can fertilize them anymore. People talking about one out of "x" hens going broody, that's cute, I've seen one hen turn into 100 chickens in about six months time.

 

[slordaz]

I have had barred rock, Rhode Island Reds and Whites, Buff Orpingtons all go broody. leg horn in the mix though was good for teaching manners to the maturing roosters were a good thing but they tend to harass your broodies of other species. What I have seen in last 8 years is make sure they have a quiet place they can defend easily and almost any breed will go broody, was hilarious watching a Cornish x try to brood when she laid at a year old

 

[R1V3R20NG]

In my experience, shoot for bantam cochin, buff orpington, or a salmon favorelle. My cochin is just over a year old and i think she's already on her 5th or 6th time being broody and she raised a little cutie pie. eep. My buff orpington goes for about 6-7 months at a time. She won't quit. I have to force her to because she practically kills herself. One of my salmon favorelles goes broody all the time. She used to go for a month, stop for two, and then go broody again. She finally is slowing down a bit tho.