Something we've done separate her chicks from her and put them with the incubated babies to get to know each other. Then return chicks to her starting with the incubated ones. She's so determined to get to her chicks back, she believes they are all hers and takes them all back.
I just stuffed 5 hatchery day olds under my first time broody Orp. It was afternoon not night because I didn’t have a brooder and they would have been chilled if I had waited. She was very surprised a little nippy at first but within half an hour she loved them! Neither of us knew what to do !! So good to see she did normal hen things.
Congrats, I’m glad it was successful. It’s a risky business but pays off when it works. The majority of the time it works for us, but you can see in some of our videos the hen did not accept them. Glad you had a good outcome.
She is a good mama. The best way to introduce baby chicks to a hen is that you put all babies under her in the darkness. The next day when she wakes up with those chicks, she thinks that those are her babies just coming out the shells with her smell. It is not a good idea to do that during the daytime, because hens might get angry and attack chicks.
Do it at night time,please don't throw chicks at the hen . Believe it or not the hen will kill them ,I have seen it with my own hens and the chick she killed was hatched underneath her for the 21 days. I would consider yourself lucky that the hen did not really lose her temper. A tip for the future if you can't reach the hen either find another broody hen or just crawl comando style. Keep up and keep going nothing better than raising chicks to adult chickens .
I'm surprised at how scared you are of a broody hen.. The most she can do is break the skin on your hand. I've stuck my hands under quite a few broody hens in my 72 yrs and have never had to use a bottle for defense. If you're going to live a farm life you gotta get a little tougher.
@@hatchingchicks1014 it wasn't meant to be mean I assure you, I said to you what I would say to my son or grandson. You will get tougher because you have to, God bless you 😊
@@marysurbanchickengarden It's true. I'm a first time chicken keeper and last year one of my wyandottes became broody. There's no rooster (yet) so I had to break her broodiness. At first she screeched every time I opened the nestbox. I wore gloves to reach under her to remove the eggs. That didn't work. She's still broody. The gloves made my grab slippery so I took them off and tried to grab her. She screeched and pecked but it's not that bad. Like a poke from a dull pencil. After that, each time I had to remove her from the nesting box, I slid my hand slowly but surely under her. She might peck but only once and the rest she just screeched madly. A few months later, my cockerels matured. One of them, King Edward, a black copper maran, was a stalker and he attacked me and my husband every time we came near the flock. I got pecked and spurred by him multiple times. Esp. in summer when I wore short. His spurs were blunt but I still got scratches and bruises all over my shins. But it's the peck that hurt because unlike the broody hen's, King Edward's peck was also a pinch, as if to tear up flesh. When I pinned him down, the other roosters took advantage of that and pecked on King Edward, except they just got my hand instead. Hahaha! But still their beaks are not like parrots/cockatoo or birds of prey. They're not sharp.
I had to collect the eggs when I was 4. We had broody hens and they would peck at my hands. I was scared at first but got used to it. It was the running across the pasture with my shirt full of eggs, trying avoid getting knocked down by our butting sheep that scared me most....that and the spanking I would get if I came in wearing the eggs 😂
That poor baby chick. Hens peck hard, and it hurts. Just wondering if you lifted her wings and they went under if she would have accepted them earlier/ easier
You got lucky this time. I did this a few months ago and everything was fine for two days but on day three she scalped two of the new chicks. No rhyme or reason just had them to bury.
Wow, that’s a great hen to have. She isn’t a pure buff Orpington, because she has some brown spots, but she is mostly buff Orpington. We hatched her in a previous batch.
I do mine At might also always worried to come out first in morning that you might fine dead one, but hasn’t happened. Had one hen refuse 2 chicks but I took in to garage and they passed away 3 days later so Guess they were sick
When possible it is best to let mother hens hatch their own eggs. The chicks and mother hen start bonding even before hatching, and incubated chicks have difficulty becoming mothers when they grow up, they need the voice, comfort and movement that a mother hen provides to develop to their full potential.
I never let my hens raise their own babies. I keep two Wyandotte sisters that go broody constantly, and I put hybrid, heavy, egg production breeds under them to raise.. those hybrids never go broody but I get 300 to 320 eggs a year from them so they are a profitable breed to have. My Wyatt dots are incredibly content mothers. They don’t care if the babies are not theirs.
@@donnastormer9652 yes, hens raise each others eggs to chicks very well, I meant that was chicks are better off raised by a mother hen than an incubator/human. As long as a hen lays on them and raises them they will develop to their best potential.
I'm wondering, where are the eggs that the broody hen was sitting on? you removed them? she looks like sitting on eggs when you throw chicks at her. And, what do you do with those eggs? hatching in incubator then throw back to her again? would she notice the differences? I mean chicks are born of different days. (sorry new to chicken, got lots of questions) For the moment I'm confused about adding chicks in day time or night time, both have reasons. lol.
I had a mother hen that would disappear for a few weeks and show up with ten new chicks. I put her in a dog house outside my back door and something killed her last night. I found all the babies but dammit i should have just left her to raise them. Now i have to
Do it at night when it’s dark, and try not chucking babies at her 😂
If we put them at night sometimes we wake up to dead chicks
Exactly. I am glad she accepted them finally. Put one or 2 in every 2-3 hours to get her mother instinct starts slowly.
can you do this to a broody hen that has never had chicks? or a chick that isnt very broody even?
Mama is like, how am I gonna support these kids?!
Something we've done separate her chicks from her and put them with the incubated babies to get to know each other. Then return chicks to her starting with the incubated ones. She's so determined to get to her chicks back, she believes they are all hers and takes them all back.
Never heard of that method, but I can see it’s potential! Nice!
Thank you very much for this idea. I'm definitely gonna try it out
@@tonnyabok4875 Your welcome! You won't have to separate them long. Maybe a minute. Mom wont tolerate being apart for too long.
Absolutely. Its what my mother told me to do once we Got baby chicken. Always works. Love it
Omg I LOVE how puffy they get!!!
I just stuffed 5 hatchery day olds under my first time broody Orp. It was afternoon not night because I didn’t have a brooder and they would have been chilled if I had waited. She was very surprised a little nippy at first but within half an hour she loved them!
Neither of us knew what to do !! So good to see she did normal hen things.
Congrats, I’m glad it was successful. It’s a risky business but pays off when it works. The majority of the time it works for us, but you can see in some of our videos the hen did not accept them. Glad you had a good outcome.
I put baby chicks UNDER the hen and she doesn't peck babies.
She is a good mama.
The best way to introduce baby chicks to a hen is that you put all babies under her in the darkness. The next day when she wakes up with those chicks, she thinks that those are her babies just coming out the shells with her smell.
It is not a good idea to do that during the daytime, because hens might get angry and attack chicks.
Yeah that’s right
Hmm. This seems to have been successful...
5:55 i think thats when she excepted them. Hear her sound change
Do it at night time,please don't throw chicks at the hen . Believe it or not the hen will kill them ,I have seen it with my own hens and the chick she killed was hatched underneath her for the 21 days. I would consider yourself lucky that the hen did not really lose her temper. A tip for the future if you can't reach the hen either find another broody hen or just crawl comando style. Keep up and keep going nothing better than raising chicks to adult chickens .
Your nest-side manner could use a little work.
I'm surprised at how scared you are of a broody hen.. The most she can do is break the skin on your hand. I've stuck my hands under quite a few broody hens in my 72 yrs and have never had to use a bottle for defense. If you're going to live a farm life you gotta get a little tougher.
Guess we aren't all as tough as you. Thanks for the comment.
@@hatchingchicks1014 it wasn't meant to be mean I assure you, I said to you what I would say to my son or grandson. You will get tougher because you have to, God bless you 😊
@@marysurbanchickengarden It's true. I'm a first time chicken keeper and last year one of my wyandottes became broody. There's no rooster (yet) so I had to break her broodiness. At first she screeched every time I opened the nestbox. I wore gloves to reach under her to remove the eggs. That didn't work. She's still broody. The gloves made my grab slippery so I took them off and tried to grab her. She screeched and pecked but it's not that bad. Like a poke from a dull pencil. After that, each time I had to remove her from the nesting box, I slid my hand slowly but surely under her. She might peck but only once and the rest she just screeched madly.
A few months later, my cockerels matured. One of them, King Edward, a black copper maran, was a stalker and he attacked me and my husband every time we came near the flock. I got pecked and spurred by him multiple times. Esp. in summer when I wore short. His spurs were blunt but I still got scratches and bruises all over my shins. But it's the peck that hurt because unlike the broody hen's, King Edward's peck was also a pinch, as if to tear up flesh. When I pinned him down, the other roosters took advantage of that and pecked on King Edward, except they just got my hand instead. Hahaha! But still their beaks are not like parrots/cockatoo or birds of prey. They're not sharp.
I had to collect the eggs when I was 4. We had broody hens and they would peck at my hands. I was scared at first but got used to it. It was the running across the pasture with my shirt full of eggs, trying avoid getting knocked down by our butting sheep that scared me most....that and the spanking I would get if I came in wearing the eggs 😂
@@greaterthanme876 🤣
That poor baby chick. Hens peck hard, and it hurts.
Just wondering if you lifted her wings and they went under if she would have accepted them earlier/ easier
You got lucky this time. I did this a few months ago and everything was fine for two days but on day three she scalped two of the new chicks. No rhyme or reason just had them to bury.
Thank you for sharing
Did she successfully raise all 12?
Good mommy
Is mom a Buff Orpington? Mine hatches a batch every year at least sometimes twice If let her
Wow, that’s a great hen to have. She isn’t a pure buff Orpington, because she has some brown spots, but she is mostly buff Orpington. We hatched her in a previous batch.
You just made 12 little babies and mum VERY HAPPY.
WELL DONE,
Lol 😂 I just put 20 day olds under my first time broody hen and snuck away in the dark, worked like a charm.
God bless you sir. even the song is a gospel song. right? il subscribe your channel. very calm and experience the goodness of God. amen.
Thank you for sharing, it was very entertaining and I especially enjoyed the music selection near the end.
How ridiculously adorable!
Do they still need the heat lamp if she adopts them? Won't that make her hot?
Thank you. Your videos are the best! I am in the same place, learning as I go.
Thank you! It’s a learning process
It was really hard to watch her peck the chicks. Seems like all the sites suggest integrating chicks at night or in the dark so she cant see them.
This was quite possibly the cutest video I have seen ❤ What a good Mama
How long was she broody before you added the chicks?
About 2 weeks. You need to wait atleast a week I think.
I was told at least 2 by an expert. I tried after 1 and it did not go well.
She’s so cute 🥰
So adorable. ❤
I do mine At might also always worried to come out first in morning that you might fine dead one, but hasn’t happened. Had one hen refuse 2 chicks but I took in to garage and they passed away 3 days later so Guess they were sick
WOW who knew you could do this.
Turn off the light...
When possible it is best to let mother hens hatch their own eggs. The chicks and mother hen start bonding even before hatching, and incubated chicks have difficulty becoming mothers when they grow up, they need the voice, comfort and movement that a mother hen provides to develop to their full potential.
I never let my hens raise their own babies. I keep two Wyandotte sisters that go broody constantly, and I put hybrid, heavy, egg production breeds under them to raise.. those hybrids never go broody but I get 300 to 320 eggs a year from them so they are a profitable breed to have. My Wyatt dots are incredibly content mothers. They don’t care if the babies are not theirs.
@@donnastormer9652 yes, hens raise each others eggs to chicks very well, I meant that was chicks are better off raised by a mother hen than an incubator/human. As long as a hen lays on them and raises them they will develop to their best potential.
I'm wondering, where are the eggs that the broody hen was sitting on? you removed them? she looks like sitting on eggs when you throw chicks at her.
And, what do you do with those eggs? hatching in incubator then throw back to her again? would she notice the differences? I mean chicks are born of different days. (sorry new to chicken, got lots of questions)
For the moment I'm confused about adding chicks in day time or night time, both have reasons. lol.
We had a couple fake eggs under her, until we switched them out with chicks.
We did add one chicks a couple days later and she accepted it.
what breed is the momma?
Buff Orpington
I had a mother hen that would disappear for a few weeks and show up with ten new chicks. I put her in a dog house outside my back door and something killed her last night. I found all the babies but dammit i should have just left her to raise them. Now i have to
I race game birds trust me put them in at night when the hen and chicks are asleep or at rest you have a better outcome