We breed Scots Grey chickens and the literature will tell you they don't usually go broody and, if they do, they wander off after a couple of days.
However, our smallest Scots Grey went broody nine days ago and when she stayed that way after a couple of days, I moved her into the broody coop with her eggs. She's still there and sitting well, so it will be interesting to see how she goes.
She has a mixed bag of eggs as I didn't want to chance too many valuable pure-bred eggs. She has a couple of spare Scots Grey eggs, plus four from the Isa Browns (running with an SG cockerel).
If she does stay on the eggs all the way through, it will be interesting to see how many live hatches there are as SGs don't perform too well in the incubator.
I have nine SH eggs in the incubator at the moment and am still hoping for hens - our last batch of six resulted in two dead chicks and four cockerels. So far, our live hatches have resulted in 14 cockerels and four hens!
Scots Greys do get broody
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The quote is from John Berger - artist, thinker, novelist, farmer, scriptwriter, marxist, art critic, and general renaissance man (IMO!). Read his trilogy Into Their Labours - it mixes prose and poetry to portray the daily life of a small farming village in the Alps and how modernisation impcts upon it. It could be about village and peasant life anywhere, and is very thought provoking.Luath wrote:Will be interested to follow your progress with the eggs; Scots Greys and/or Dumpies are to be my next acquisition I hope.
Like your quote too. 8)
