Re: best breed banties for setting

enigma wrote:
Janet Baraclough <janet.and.john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:31303030393032394404350352@xxxxxxxxxxxx:

The message
<1141123542.500756.70330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from
"Frank Thompson" <gno52@xxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:

Late in spring I want to attempt to have some bantam hens
set quail eggs. What are the preferred breeds for this and
are there any I should avoid,
I wouldn't bother getting a specific breed. Anyone who
keeps bantams will be only too glad to give away one of their many
mongrel-bantam hens that go broody at the drop of a hat
and sit tight for weeks on end. It's good fun using them to hatch other eggs. I had a
little black bantam with a mohican hairdo, who hatched all sorts of
ducks, pheasants and other chickens. Bantam cockerels will
also spend a lot of time teaching new chicks to scratch
food, calling them to worms he's found etc. Both sexes are
good parents.

one of my Silkie hens just got over a broody phase. so last night when i went to check the nest boxes for eggs i was surprised there was a Silkie in one. i was even more surprised it was one of the roosters... setting on 5 eggs (none of them Silkie). he wasn't as annoyed as the hen gets when i took them away though :)
lee <who has a dozen chicks arriving today & it's -13F windchills. ack!>


Silkies will sit on any type of eggs! Some people use them to hatch peafowl eggs as they do a better job than an incubator when they go broody. They also tend to go broody more frequently than some of the other breeds so I suggest you get some of them.
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