what would be your flocks catch phrase

[ChickenChick46]

@ChickenChick46
As long as your days get shorter, you should be fine!
I was planning to buy a broody on Sunday, so I got chicks for her on Friday.
Turns out, I jumped the gun….
When I got her, she decided that being broody in the Winter didn’t sound as much like rainbows and unicorns as it had before.
I now have to build them an insulated outdoor brooder in time for us to leave on a camping trip next Thursday…

But if you CAN get a broody, chicks hopping around in the snow with their fluffy mamma watching over them make great pictures!

Haha oh no!! She's going to make your pre-travel plans as complicated as possible!

Our days do definitely get shorter. Once the time changes in early November, we'll be down to shorter days. My neighbor's chickens laid very well through most of last winter, with a slow down the week we had snow. Snow is an extreme rarity here, though. She only had one go broody that I know of, and she was awful at it, lol. She did better the second time around though.

I definitely want a broody and to hatch out some chicks, but if they'll wait till spring when the second coop is done, I'd appreciate that.

 

[TheChickenGirl16]

They will probably wait until Spring!
If someone does go broody, and you do have to break her, that means she has like a 95% chance of going broody again in Spring!

Do you have any:
Jersey Giants
Orpingtons
Cochins
New Hampshire Reds
Or almost any Bantam

In my experience so far, these are the broodiest!

 

[ChickenChick46]

They will probably wait until Spring!
If someone does go broody, and you do have to break her, that means she has like a 95% chance of going broody again in Spring!

Do you have any:
Jersey Giants
Orpingtons
Cochins
New Hampshire Reds
Or almost any Bantam

In my experience so far, these are the broodiest!

I have 15 birds right now, and they're all bantams. Including 2 bantam cochins, one of which is definitely female. And I'm getting 4 Orpingtons in a couple of weeks. My other bantams are d'Uccles, an OEGB, a Sebright, a silkie, buff brahmas, and an EE.

 

[redinator]

@ChickenChick46
As long as your days get shorter, you should be fine!
I was planning to buy a broody on Sunday, so I got chicks for her on Friday.
Turns out, I jumped the gun….
When I got her, she decided that being broody in the Winter didn’t sound as much like rainbows and unicorns as it had before.
I now have to build them an insulated outdoor brooder in time for us to leave on a camping trip next Thursday…

But if you CAN get a broody, chicks hopping around in the snow with their fluffy mamma watching over them make great pictures!

I'd have to move to get pictures in the snow, lol.

 

[MROO]

My flock's catch phrase would be, "You CAN'T!" because once those little buggers escape, corralling them again is close to impossible!

 

[redinator]

They will probably wait until Spring!
If someone does go broody, and you do have to break her, that means she has like a 95% chance of going broody again in Spring!

Do you have any:
Jersey Giants
Orpingtons
Cochins
New Hampshire Reds
Or almost any Bantam

In my experience so far, these are the broodiest!

Uh, I'm in trouble . . . I have a Blue Jersey Giant, a Buff Orpington, several Bantams which 4 of the 7 are also Cochins.

In addition I'm swapping chickens with a friend. He's taking my 5 RIR Pullets and I'm getting his 4 Black Jersey Giants (one turned out to be a cockerel and he can't have roosters).

Looks like I'll be able to retire my incubator though, so . . . good, maybe IDK. Now I'm scared, lol.

 

[redinator]

My flock's catch phrase would be, "You CAN'T!" because once those little buggers escape, corralling them again is close to impossible!

Treats, lots and lots of treats.

Edit: Speaking of which it's time to lure them back to the run

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

My chickens catchphrase would be, " she just cleaned all our poop up in the run, so everyone poop now!"

 

[redinator]

My chickens catchphrase would be, " she just cleaned all our poop up in the run, so everyone poop now!"

Or, the waterer is clean time to use it as a toilet.

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

Or, the waterer is clean time to use it as a toilet.

Yep, or let's climb in and stand in it! I have one that is a big metal pan that they love to drink out. Especially, once one them has stood in it already. Blech.