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HI! So just how broody are Ameraucanas?
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HI! So just how broody are Ameraucanas? |
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Posts: 22 07/20/07 02:22 PM |
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Posts: 47 01/25/08 01:30 PM |
My Ameraucana hen went broody at 5 monthes old. She laid her eggs under my storage shed and hatched 7 babies. I moved her and the chicks to a brooder pen and
she did fine for about 3 weeks then she totally ignored the chicks.
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Posts: 225 03/15/08 06:56 PM |
They tend to be broody.
Some very much so.
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Posts: 1629 03/17/08 07:43 AM Moderator |
Agree, pure bred ameraucana tend to be broody. My buff ameraucana girls are very broody and stubborn ones too.
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Posts: 28 03/22/08 10:48 PM |
I've got one setting on goose eggs now.....
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instar8 |
just how broody? | #5 | ||
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Posts: 20 10/01/08 10:10 AM |
Well, at the end of the season, i gotta agree...those girls are great brooders! I only let them hatch one batch, which they increased when i wasn't looking
fromthe five i gave to the first hen (one from each of my 5 AM girls) to 8 eggs, luckily half my hens are Orps, so i could pull the browns, otherwise i'd
have a dozen 2-month-old right now. The two black Ams pretty much took turns, and they were as faithful as could be. The first 5 hatched within a day of each
other, and the sneaked in stragglers over the next two weeks...note to self...gotta MARK those darned eggs next time.
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Posts: 1999 10/01/08 10:33 AM Moderator |
Good job for those broodies! Are you going to share pics of the peeps?
Jody |
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Posts: 1857 10/28/08 06:49 AM |
My buff ameraucana went broody a few days after one of my araucana hens went broody. She did not go broody this year as I kept swiping her eggs and putting
them under other broody hens (I got 5 chicks out of 6 of her eggs).
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