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[Falkor]

Hi

 

Well I thought it was the Orps that were meant to be broody but my Amber Star is currently glued to the nestbox like a big stroppy puffed up football. She has been this way for a full on 24hrs (except for forced toilet and meal break).

 

Has anyone successfully hatched with a broody hybrid?

[Lewis]

Not personally, but a few people on here have

 

As long as she is broody (which she sounds ) she should be fine

[Redwing]

Yay go for it!

 

[Griffin]

Test her for a few days with dummy eggs and see how determined she is.

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Golf balls worked with Buffie until she scooped her "sisters" eggs underneath & smashed then all over her belly..................as you know Em we moved her after that little episode and the resultant bath & she's now happily latched onto the "babies-to-be" in the eglu after her second move since going broody !

 

Good luck Snowball!!

 

Sha x

[Falkor]

Well....that was a shortlived thing.

 

I am at work but OH has just emailed me from home to say that Snowball is up and about in the garden and currently terrorising Saffy!

[Redwing]

fickle madam

[Falkor]

what is the betting that she will be a puffed up football by the time I get home!

[Redwing]

Mood swings, gotta love em!

[Cooks]

she's a crazy girl

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Hormones ....... aren't they fun !

 

Sha x

[Falkor]

Well I spose Snowball is giving me the same treatment that I give OH at certain times of the month!

[Redwing]

Its when she starts throwing plates that you have got to worry

[teri]

its a womans perogative to change their mind you know

[Falkor]

Its when she starts throwing plates that you have got to worry

 

it is coffee mugs in our house

[Redwing]

If I am ever at your house drinking coffee from a mug with no handle I will know what happened

[Lewis]

The same thing happened with Theodore last week.

She was broody and rfusing to move, so I was thinking about giving her the cockerel chicks from the recent hatch, but the next day she wasn't interested so she never got her own babies :roll

[Falkor]

Well guess what.....cheeky madam was up and free ranging when i got home but before I had even finished my cup of tea she had gone back into the nestbox.

 

I have taken her out via pop hole and back into WIR three times now....she keeps going back to the nestbox

 

And Tasha...if she had any crockery near by i reckon she would be throwing it at me!

 

Broody cage me thinks!

[eggscombobulated]

Hi....our omlet chicken was broody in April and again 3 weeks ago.....we went for it ..got some fertilised eggs and on Sat they started hatching and we now have 6 gorgeous chicks...adorable. Pegasus their mum just sat on them constantly......they should have hatched today but were 2 days early.....to our surprise! Go for it.....she is looking after them and they all hide under her peeping out and wondering around at times. Not sure how to sex them.....so I suppose it is a waiting and observing game now. Mother Nature is a wonderful thing.

[mostin]

HENthusiastic has hatched a brood under her Black Rock hybrid, and she has been a wonderful mum .

[mocha]

I have 7 chicks at the moment, hatched under 2 of my Black Rocks. They seem to be doing a great job so far