They will usually sit on the eggs better if it’s their own eggs or another chickens, but you can place eggs yourself in a spot they usually lay and that will work as well. Thanks for watching
What a great video! I have only had chickens for 3 years and this year I've got 4 more coming this May. I will have 6 hens and one rooster. I am just doing this as my hobby and its just me and hubby with kids all gone. I'm hoping that I will have some chicks since we got a rooster at some point. I will have 1 buff Orpington and 1 black astralope. I definitely will get some of those fake eggs when the time comes! I don't think I will ever get to 50 chickens but around here I won't have any problem giving chicks away lol!
Have bred Polish chickens for years. Never had one go broody. They are not suppose to go broody. That's a breed disqualification. Best and most reliable broody hens and by far the best moms in the chicken world are the Aseels.
I usually move the mom and the chicks myself into a separate pen/small hen house, but sometimes they will all get down on their own. Thanks for watching
When I was a kid, our hens used to brood chicks out in the top of a three round bale high stack, and in the hay loft. Both were roughly ten feet up. When the chicks hatched, the mother bird would fly down, and the chicks would hurl themselves from the top like little fluffy hailstones showering out of the loft. They weigh so little that it doesn't hurt them at all. They just get up and toddle after mama.
It is seasonal, usually only in the spring, but I’ve also seen it year around with some birds. The first eggs don’t die, as they can stay fertile for a while. Thanks for watching
@@Alexarmer since, my hen hatched 11 chicks! I learned that they don't start developing until she sits on them so the clutch usually all starts at the same time.
@XenoRaptor-98765 any time of year. The trick is they need to see lots of eggs piling up. But once one hen goes broody, broodiness can spread like a virus to the other hens and they'll go broody on one or even zero eggs.
I have a question My hens get let out each day about 11.00am to roam the neigbourhood. We have 6 hens 3 of the have hatched eggs in the past. They originally were wild hens but now they live in our coup. We had one of the hens last year go broody under our house and hatch 11 babies and two others hatched eggs nearby. This year they start sitting but when I open the doors they all run our, even the 2 hens that usually go broody. I can't figure out what to do to keep them interested in staying on the eggs. I am sure 2 of them have started to go broody as they show all the signs, smelly poo, sitting on the eggs but they get upset if they other hens go walkabout without them. I am thinking I might have to make the enclosure bigger, taking in more of the yard just for the time they hens start going broody to stop they leaving for the day. Any suggestions would be great as we have to get the eggs in as we don't have a rooster so it is a bit difficult. Help????
