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The Official Ameraucana Forum => Housing, Health & Hatching => Topic started by: Michael Muenks on December 03, 2020, 12:00:41 PM
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Inspired by Mike Gilbert's fall success with a brooding hen, I decided to let a few eggs collect and see if one of the pullets that had been laying for a bit would brood. On December 1 a black bantam pullet took to brooding. She has some white bantam Ameraucana eggs under her.
Now if I can only find a bucket size that hens will like so I can adopt the bucket method Mike uses. [/img]
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Inspired by Mike Gilbert's fall success with a brooding hen, I decided to let a few eggs collect and see if one of the pullets that had been laying for a bit would brood. On December 1 a black bantam pullet took to brooding. She has some white bantam Amearaucana eggs under her. [/img]
It should be a little easier to raise them in your milder climate. My broody was a bantam Buff Chantecler hen; I will include a couple of photos here. She hatched nine out of nine eggs, all LF Blue Wheatens except one Wheaten. The one late-hatched chick didn't make it, but the other 8 are all feathered out and doing fine on their own now. Ended up with 6 pullets and 2 B/W cockerels.
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This has never worked for me. Good luck.