What are you currently incubating/brooding?

[MarkN]

I thought they were horses - or is that Appellanzer?

I hope not. There isn't nearly enough room in the incubator!

[Suechooks]

6 Barnevelders, 6 Cream Legbars all in the incubator.
1 Speckled Sussex, 1 Araucana, 1 Hamburg, 1 Lakenvelder all under one very broody Silkie.

[Glutton4...]

I thought they were horses - or is that Appellanzer?

LOL

Horseys could be Apaloosa or Lipizzaner but I haven't heard of Appellanzers (yet)

Spotty Lipizzaners!

[Snadger]

10 eggs from Sid the Silver Sussex cockerel! Laydees are five white hens from a LS X ISA Brown! (Trying to get a bit of black into the ofspring!)

[Flummery]

LOL



Spotty Lipizzaners!

Ha! As the man said, the right letters, but not necessarily in the right order!

[MrsC]

We've currently got 6 Appenzeller eggs ( a week in) and 6 Gold laced Orpington going in the incubator tomorrow.

I hatched some Appenzellers last year, gold laced, stunning birds! Very tame, what type are you hatching?

[gillian62]

I have 6 RIR a week in. We have one RIR and she is lovely, so looking forward to some more.

[Bramble-Poultry]

salmon faverolle, indian game just hatched at the back end of the week, more salmon faverolle and red pyle pekin in the incubator at the moment

[jessmorris]

I have 6 Amrock eggs from Devon in someone else's incubator and Penny the Pekin sitting dummy eggs ready to take over once they are hatched!

[RichmondHens]

My LS eggs are almost there, the ones in the incubator are wibbling and wobbling, and the hen covering the others had a huge feed on Saturday and didn't get off at all yesterday, which is a good sign.

Now have three more broodies so have sent off for some Copper Blue Maran and Exchequer Leghorn eggs which will be set later this week.

[Nicos]

dummy egg in situ waiting for a 'taker'
...then ( depending on which lass take the bait) 6-8 eggs of our bantam Cayennes

[roitelet]

6 eggs of unknown breed but they are bigger than my cayennes although the cayenne cock ( one of Les Abandonnes) I gave to the friend who gave me the eggs is as big as his hens. Due to hatch on the 14th.

[RichmondHens]

dummy egg in situ waiting for a 'taker'
...then ( depending on which lass take the bait) 6-8 eggs of our bantam Cayennes

Nicos, I upped the wheat for my bantams, the theory being that if they are "full" for longer they sit around more, and it does seem to work with mine. Within a few days of feeding more wheat one then another started to go broody. I now have five ..................! My lot are very predictable though. All bar two I have bred myself and I know them all very well. Yours may not co-operate as easily.

The downside is you get less eggs, obviously, but I have my large fowl popping them out for England so am happy for all the bantams to go broody now!

[squibbs]

12 Cuckoo Marans
6 Blue Orpingtons
6 Speckled Sussexes

Went in yesterday

[Polly Fouracre]

10 eggs from Sid the Silver Sussex cockerel! Laydees are five white hens from a LS X ISA Brown! (Trying to get a bit of black into the ofspring!)

Snadger, you have a cockerel that lays eggs?!!