dance in the dark Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Now, I currently have a determinadly broody orpington, I am vaguely considering buying some fertile eggs off ebay, but I have a couple of issues. Firstly, she has already been broody for about a week, so obviously she would been quite far through the broodiness thing by the time I would get the eggs. Is there a chance she would abandon them before they hatched? Secondly: How do you go about getting her to sit on the eggs? If she is prone to going broody and you just leave them in a nest will she take to them? Basically, HELP!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 I put the eggs in the nest while they are on thier 'fag' break I find it less stressfull the broody and less painfull for me as the girls I use all hate me when they are broody but love to take chucks out of my hand a determind broody will sit until the eggs hatch but it's not a good thing for them to sit much more than the extra week.have you not got somewere or someone local you can get some eggs from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmastar Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 The first time i set some eggs my broody wouldnt sit the next time i put them in my jumper pocket for a minute to walk up a bit and she took them no problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
