What are you currently incubating/brooding?

[chris]

I'm thinking of offering my broody's services to a fellow allotmenteer, if only to get her back laying again. pfft!

[jessmorris]

I am really chuffed with 13 out of 15 mixed wyandottes hatched Sat/Sun. The remaining 2 eggs were clear. Good results from Fleabay eggs that I collected from the farm. They are silver peniclled, gold parttridge and a mixture from blue laced x blue laced - buff laced, black laced and hopefully (I think) 2 blue laced! Hurrah. Almost makes up for getting 3 Amrock boys from 6 eggs (AND they've got olive legs not the proper yellow!), and poor early hatches. Maybe its not worth doing hatches in early April?

[Glutton4...]

You know I said I wasn't going to hatch anything this year...?

...And, I've loaned out my Puppy Pen/Hatching Crate...

...Well, I now have three Broodies...

[vicky]

Didn't you have a box in the stables last year....you know you want to!

[Suechooks]

You know I said I wasn't going to hatch anything this year...?

...And, I've loaned out my Puppy Pen/Hatching Crate...

...Well, I now have three Broodies...

................................so?

[RichmondHens]

Go on, you must be down on numbers anyway, you've lost a lot of batties recently.

I am happy to report three little indian game chicks have hatched and a fourth is pipping. However two are suspiciously bright yellow which makes me think the LS cock got in pretty quick after taking the hens away from the IG cock - there were only 6 days between removing them and setting the eggs!

[Suechooks]

Phoebe one of my Buff Orpington bantams is now happily settled in the new broody coop on top of 3 golf balls and a pot egg while we wait for her ebay eggs to arrive - probably next Tuesday!

[Hilary B]

You know I said I wasn't going to hatch anything this year...?

...And, I've loaned out my Puppy Pen/Hatching Crate...

...Well, I now have three Broodies...

Watching this space.......

[Glutton4...]

Vicky, yes, that is the crate I have loaned out to a friend for her Puppy.
Hilary, shut up!





However, Mr.G wants to go somewhere tomorrow, and en-route happens to be an eBay seller with Buff Orpington hatching eggs.

Not that I've been looking, you understand.

[petal]

currently got June the buff orpington with about 15 chicks that are 4? weeks old by her feet. Frodo the pekin is sat on crested cream legbar eggs. goldie the silkie is hatching pekins as we speak. custard the silkie is sat on pekin and silkie eggs - due soon. jenny the call duck is sat on her eggs in a secret den under the leylandii- due whenever.....Incubator has muscovies and call duck eggs - due on 29th. bantam chicks of 4 weeks old in the barn.

[Glutton4...]

I'm not hatching....

One Battie goes broody...
The young White one goes broody...
One of the young Black ones goes broody...

I 'eBay' and buy local eggs!

I collect eggs, and all three have gone off the idea!

I've put the two youngsters on eggs, in the dark, and shut them in 'til morning.

I have now 'eBayed a bladdy incubator....



I'm never hatching my own, I said...





Shoot me now!

[Suechooks]

I knew you'd give in G4!!!!
My little Silkie has finally got up and left the nest after 6 weeks of sitting on a golf ball and any eggs she could pinch! The bantam Orp is still sitting tight so I hope the ebay eggs arrive soon!

[RichmondHens]

Ha ha ha ha - knew you would!

Sometimes young hens get into a half broody state, you think they are broody but they are not really. I suspect that's what's happened to yours. The only way to know for sure is to separate them into a broody coop and put them on fake eggs, golf balls, whatever and if they are still sitting tight after 24 - 48 hours then you can set real eggs. I have old tried and tested hens that I know so well that I can set immediately on a clutch of eggs as I know they will sit and never let me down, but with youngsters on their first time it's safer to do a "test sit" to avoid wasting good eggs.

What sort are you hoping to hatch anyway?

[Glutton4...]

Well, the incy is due soon. I have 11 (dropped one ) Buff Orpington eggs, and am collecting 12 Jubilee Orpington eggs on Wednesday...

I need my bladdy head testing don't I?

[Suechooks]

You'll never be short of broodies with that lot G4!