i have a neighbor that wants some of my hens to lay on their pheasanteggs? will a chicken do that?
SOME HENS DO MAKE GOOD SETTERS OF EGGS. I PERSONALLY HAVE A COCHIN HEN THAT ACTUALLY GATHERS MY BOBWHITE QUAILS EGGS AND SITS ON THEM. ALL I HAVE TO DO IS PICK HER UP AND COLLECT THE EGGS. HOWEVER LIKE I SAID, NOT ALL HENS MAKE GOOD SETTERS.
the person that i buy my eggs and chickens from sets his sebright bantams on his phesant eggs!! but when you do that you need to make sure that you put a pencil strike on them so you know whick ones are fertle and if the rooster is with her you need to know which ones have been incubated for the right amount of time!! it is a great idea to do that!! i am going to do if i can cus i am very bad with an incubator!! i only had 10 chicks hatch out of 96 eggs that is horrible!! well good luck!! email me if you have any questions!! nate_vanwey09@hotmail.com
Tell your neighbor to get a silkie. They are bantam chickens, so they don't eat that much or require that much space. Only downside is they can only really cover 8 or 9 regular hen eggs. Less is better as they are small birds. But they will sit and sit! Mine went broody this spring, hatched 6 out of 9 eggs, and was a perfect mother. She started laying again about three weeks later, laid for three weeks, then went broody again. This time she had no eggs so she didn't go thru a whole cycle and started laying again about 18 days later. I've also heard cochins are the same way and just got my first young ones this spring.
By BIRDFEVER on Friday, July 28, 2000 - 11:22 pm:
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