will a chicken sit on

[chrisarvor]

Hi
Will a chicken or bantam sit on Pheasant eggs for the full term of 28 days (silvers)?
Or get off at 21??

Also how do you get a bantam hen to go broody?

 

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

Ideas differ but you can't make them go broody they just do but now some will tell you that you can make them and I know of only one person who did it and they claim it worked so it may work do a search for broody hens or how to make a hen go broody and you should find his plans for the broody hen box you could try that.
The rest of your question I have no idea about sorry.

 

[chseeads]

They will usually sit until they hatch something, I'm sure there are exceptions, but generally you can hatch whatever kind of eggs under a hen regardless of the incubation length.

Some will say that it's not good to use a chicken to incubate pheasants though due to disease possibilities. I'm no authority on that though.

As for making one go broody, it just has to be the course of nature in my experience. When she gets in the mood to do it, she will, and if she's not, she won't.

 

[BlooRooster]

Yeah you can put about anything under a hen and they will hatch it. As a matter of fact, many people put peafowl eggs under a hen for a week or so and then transfer them to the incubator later. Many people swear by this method saying that by being under the hen for a while it increases hatches greatly. I haven't hatched enough yet to know what my opinion on this method is.

I have been told stories of chickens who have set they're self to death when setting on infertile eggs. Some people will pull eggs from under a hen in the last few days and put them in a hatcher and put new eggs under the hen. Some hens will just keep on setting, others will stop. I have known people to have hens set for 6 or 7 weeks. I certainly wouldn't recommend doing this because it can be very hard on the hens.

 

[Camelot Farms]

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[BluesDragon]

We had a hen that went broody and kept sitting for almost 2.5 months before she hatched something and quit. We moved her off the nest after the first 2 attempts, but she snuck off, found a couple bantam eggs somewhere hidden and sat them until they hatched. She looked like hell afterward, but she had her chicks. I Think she would have sat them to death if she had to, she was that determined. Unfortunately she got sick this spring and didn't make it to hatch more this year.

 

[Jplejeune]

i have old hens that will stay broody till something hatches. I use mine to raise my woodducks. i put the eggs under her for 25 days take them out and put in incubator then put gold balls or something under here till i get more eggs. She will go like that for a few hatches then i leave them so she can hatch and move around. if you keep them brooding too long they will become malnurished because of hardly eating and drinking while nesting. Ive seen ppl go way longer till their hens are skin and bones but dont advise that at all