They grow up so fast!

redninja · Post by **redninja** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 12:38 pm

This isn't our first broody but the best so far.
12 chicks tagging after her.
She's a black copper Marans cross.
They went on the roost (top one of course in the eaves) first time last night.

muffin57 · Post by **muffin57** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 2:30 pm

That's awesome, wow 12 chicks, love it. Busy mom. One of our Partridge Chanteclers had 5 babies hatch yesterday.

redninja · Post by **redninja** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 2:41 pm

I have 7 moms running around with their chicks and, at last count, 6 sitting. Loving it!

muffin57 · Post by **muffin57** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 2:57 pm

Nice. We only have 2 moms, as we lost one a while ago. The other one has just one baby. One of them had three earlier in the season. This is our biggest hatch yet with the five. This is our first year. We got 3 chickens and 1 roo last fall. It will be more awesome next year, as the herd grows.

muffin57 · Post by **muffin57** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 5:09 pm

Actually we just discovered that she has six babies!

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 6:04 pm

muffin57 wrote:QR_BBPOST Actually we just discovered that she has six babies!

And so the chicken math begins........

Beautiful chicks redninja

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 2:59 am

I love seeing mamas and their babies, especially good mamas that manage to get all their babies to roosting age! I have another two pullets go down in the past three days, but am not getting enough eggs to be picky about what they're sitting on, because it seems everybody is broody, thinking about it, or toting chicks around.

Post by **Killerbunny** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 6:18 am

I'm having this discussion with a turkey who wants a 3rd try!

redninja · Post by **redninja** » Tue Aug 02, 2016 12:51 pm

Windwalkingwolf, I gave up trying to "convince" the girls not to sit in such hot weather. I had another 2 start sitting this weekend. It seems to have calmed down the whole flock with hens sitting, hatching or taking care of chicks.
My flock is all together this year (except for the Wheaton Ameraucanas) and the teenagers seem much better behaved than last year. All those mom's yelling them what to do.