Potential signs of broodiness?
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| | I have a wonderful roo that is both a great leader and a gentleman for my ladies. Unfortunately, my area does not allow roosters, and we finally got a complaint about him, so now I must rehome him. Honestly, my original plan was just to have hens anyway, and he was a surprise that I ended up getting attached to, haha. Anyway, since he has to go, I at least wanted to try to hatch some of his chicks to keep his good genes (and hopefully maybe get some blue egg layers in the future, since he was supposed to do that lol). I’ve never hatched eggs myself before, and I don’t have an incubator. Obviously, I know I could buy one but I wanted to see if any of my hens had the potential to be broody first. On to my question: is my lady showing signs of broodiness? Or just trying to lay an egg? She was on the edge of the coop, and I walked up to her and she jumped back in, and then went into the nesting box like this for about 20 mins, and the next time I checked there was another egg. I’ve heard they like a nest full of eggs, around 7-12, so maybe she’s saving them up? I’ve just started letting them pile up so right now there are 4. All my chickens are pretty young, around 6-7 months old (one hasn’t even started laying yet) so I believed my chances of getting one of them to go broody was low, but this has me thinking she has the potential to go broody. Thoughts? TL;DR have to get rid of roo, want to hatch his genes, can’t tell if hen will go broody. [link] [comments] |
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