Will my Serama hen go broody if I leave the eggs with her?

[awesomefowl]

My serama hen Jane laid me two eggs the past weekend. However, my incubator will soon be full of duck eggs, so I wanted to try to make Jane go broody on them. Are Serama hens broody? Has anybody 'forced' a hen to go broody and had it work? I really have no clue about this.

Thanks!

 

[awesomefowl]

Anyone?

 

[theron]

Yea, Seramas do go broody. My hen hatched out 2 out of 3 eggs. I have even had it when all of my serama hens were broody at the same time. You cant really have or make a hen go broody, but one idea you could use would be put some fake eggs on her nest and put the two eggs in an egg carton and turn them 3x a day at room temperature. Then, if Jane goes broody, put the two eggs back under her. Good luck

Here is a picture of the two chicks my serama hatched out:

 

[awesomefowl]

Thank you! I have to find some fake eggs now....could I use blown eggshells?

 

[theron]

you could try... but if that doesnt work, you could try golfballs.

 

[awesomefowl]

AH, there is the problem....none of my birds were fooled with golfballs. They just ignored the golfballs.

 

[theron]

well, it will probably be better then to put the blown out eggs instead.

 

[92caddy]

We've had them sit on rocks and golf balls. They are very good sitters. Just cant fit alot of eggs under them.

 

[Surehatch]

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I make use of the same technique