What is your highest hatch amount from one hen?

[Chook Kingdom]

Here's the page to mark records for your hatches from your hens! Who has gotten the highest? My high this year is 16 from Crow, an Old Australorp! And still climbing! Pictures Coming! What's yours? What breed was it?

 

[GitaBooks]

That's awesome!

I've only had two standard breeds go broody so far, so the most eggs hatched so far I think is only 6. Hopefully the number will increase when my new standard sized broody breeds mature.

Sandy only hatched four chicks and only three survived, she's a leghorn


My sebright, Beauty, hatched only two chicks


Susie had five living eggs, but one had gone dormant and was adopted by another hen, Susie raised 4 chicks

 

[Chook Kingdom]

That's very nice for a start! What, your Leghorn hatched chicks? That's one of the rarest things I've heard about chickens! Susie is a very nice hen! What breed is she, or at lease what was her parents?

 

[Chook Kingdom]

Crow's up to 18!

 

[GitaBooks]

Crow's up to 18!

Incredible! I would love to see pictures!

A lot of my chickens were going broody that year, and I guess Sandy just decided she wanted to go too. Actually, she started the year off before some of my other chickens. She was a good broody, she was also a good mother (it was our fault her chick died). She didn't go broody this year, however, so it must have just been a once in a life-time type of thing.

Susie's grandparents were a Red Pyle OEG bantam hen and a Silver Sebright rooster. This cross bred with a naked-neck white Silkie rooster to produce Susie and her dalmatian sister. Susie now has chicks that are dalmatian as well.

Susie's mother or aunt (there were two identical hens)

 

[Chook Kingdom]

That's nice that your getting chicks that look like her! I'll try to get a good picture of her once her chicks come out to eat and drink. Three of mine died too! One was a bantam Australorp, not a real breed, that I was trying to use to make a new branch of the Australorp, she was taken by a crow, not Crow, the other was a Colombian Rock chick that was attacked by a White Plymouth Rock. They were both incubated batches. The other died yesterday evening because he had hatched without Crow's notice and she left him out the back instead of cuddling him to the center

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[Chook Kingdom]

Well, that's still incredible that a Leghorn hatched chicks! Everyone says they are never broody.

 

[Chook Kingdom]

Incredible! I would love to see pictures!

A lot of my chickens were going broody that year, and I guess Sandy just decided she wanted to go too. Actually, she started the year off before some of my other chickens. She was a good broody, she was also a good mother (it was our fault her chick died). She didn't go broody this year, however, so it must have just been a once in a life-time type of thing.

Susie's grandparents were a Red Pyle OEG bantam hen and a Silver Sebright rooster. This cross bred with a naked-neck white Silkie rooster to produce Susie and her dalmatian sister. Susie now has chicks that are dalmatian as well.

Susie's mother or aunt (there were two identical hens)

Here's the Photos of them all! The total amount from the photos is the number!
2

Not counted

+14

+ 2 = 18!

 

[GitaBooks]

That is just so amazing! Congrats

 

[Chook Kingdom]

Thank you!