First Timer Broody Hen Questions

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Re: First Timer Broody Hen Questions

Post by amberalora » Sun Jul 28, 2019 8:54 am

Ok, these are the spots I am looking for, right?
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Re: First Timer Broody Hen Questions

Post by amberalora » Sun Jul 28, 2019 8:57 am

Thanks @Kbr42 I don’t think I’ll worry about hatching eggs this late in the season, if it was earlier I definitely would! I’ll just use this as an experiment if she does decide to sit, and definitely try candling throughout!
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Post by Killerbunny » Sun Jul 28, 2019 9:18 am

That's it and those look fertile to me.
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Re: First Timer Broody Hen Questions

Post by Kbr42 » Sun Jul 28, 2019 10:53 am

I agree with KB, those look good to me as well.
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Re: First Timer Broody Hen Questions

Post by Kbr42 » Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:42 am

amberalora wrote:
Sun Jul 28, 2019 8:57 am
Thanks @Kbr42 I don’t think I’ll worry about hatching eggs this late in the season, if it was earlier I definitely would! I’ll just use this as an experiment if she does decide to sit, and definitely try candling throughout!
Late in the season...there's a season for hatching eggs......I must have missed that...my hatch is due Aug 2... :wave:
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Post by amberalora » Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:55 pm

@Kbr42 definitely not saying there is a certain hatching season, sorry if it came off that way!

I just have limited coop space for the winter, only one of my coops is insulated. If I bought hatching eggs and she hatched them out earlier in the spring or summer I would have more time to watch them grow up and pick my favourites to keep. If I buy them now I don’t have as much time before I need to sell them, and maybe less of a market. I will still let her hatch out her own eggs now if she decides to !!

What breed(s) do you have hatching on the 2nd?? That’s exciting!! I hope it goes well :chicks: share pictures!
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Post by Killerbunny » Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:56 pm

Kathleen (my turkey) is down for her second go round too!
It didn't come across weird at all it's just that some of us have a problem LOL!
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Post by Kbr42 » Sun Jul 28, 2019 3:27 pm

@amberalora , I was kidding. Yes, my hatch this week will be silkies surprise @kenya. Not even my eggs this hatch. I have 4 broody silkies and my BCM is broody again. Her hatch is just 17 weeks. I AM the home of the broody hen/pullet this year..

I'll post pictures.
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Post by kenya » Sun Jul 28, 2019 3:44 pm

I'm still hatching although I told myself I put my last egg in today.
I don't hatch like the rest of you, I put eggs in the incubator each day after they are laid and just mark date they went in and parents on the egg. So I usually have a couple hatching each day. Works great for me.
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Post by Jaye » Sun Jul 28, 2019 4:04 pm

My retired Silkie hen, Gracie, decided that today is going to be a good day to go broody. :doh:
She hasn't laid an egg or gone broody since the fall of last year, and yet picks the middle of a heat wave to come out of retirement.
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