This instalment focuses on optimising hatch day success with broody hens, detailing hatching challenges. Key tips include managing clutch size, checking for unhatched chicks, and the safe introduction of new chicks to the flock to ensure their survival and integration.
broody hen Chicken Breeding ChickensBroody Hens: Part 4 How to have a Successful Hatch Day
broody hen Chicken Breeding ChickensBroody Hens: Part 3 Supporting Your Broody Hen through Incubation
So far in this series we’ve explained why breeding using broody hens to incubate, hatch and raise chicks is a viable model for the smallholder and guided you through how …
broody hen Chicken Breeding ChickensBroody Hens: Part 2 Setting up for Successful Hatching
The second part of the series on using broody hens for incubation outlines the necessary elements for a successful hatch: a broody hen, a suitable coop and run, fertilised eggs, and optional equipment. Key considerations include space requirements, egg sourcing, and tools to enhance hatch rates, ensuring a smooth brooding process.
broody hen Chicken Breeding ChickensBroody Hens: Part 1 Maximizing Chick Hatching with Broody Hens
We love our Buff Orpingtons and with a natural broody tendency, this breed are a perfect way to incubate, hatch and raise the next generation of chickens in our flock, …
Chicken Breeding homesteadingEssential Guide to Incubating Eggs for Better Results
Incubating eggs offers a cost-effective way to enhance your flock size, especially amidst rising prices for point of lay hens. Aside from saving money, incubation provides a wider breed selection and an engaging experience for kids and families. There are a number of considerations htat need to be taken into account as well as selecting the equipment you need.
Chicken Breeding ChickensA Guide to Chicken Saddles
When we were first introduced to the concept of chicken saddles it conjured up images of chickens racing across a field with tiny little jockeys bobbing up and down on …
Chicken Breeding Chickens homesteading smallholdingOur Mixed Chicken Flock
We breed Buff Orpington chickens and anyone familiar with our social media accounts will be very familiar with the chickens either running towards us, or after us. Fiona’s accounts on …
Chicken Breeding ChickensAn Unexpected Chick
We breed Buff Orpingtons chickens here on the smallholding and we love this friendly and animated breed. Each year we buy in a small number of hatching eggs. This is …
Chicken Breeding ChickensBroody Hens are like buses….
We breed Buff Orpingtons. These chickens are large, golden and friendly like Cinnamon featured on the right. One of the best features of the Buff Orpington is that they have …