How can I FIND OUT INFORMATION ON SITTIN CHICKENS?
Your question depends on the chickens that you own. Broodyness is hormonal and all chickens are different. Some birds such as the Leghorn and Rhode Island Red hardly ever hatch their own chicks because doing so was breed out of them. If you have a bird that is of a breed that goes broody it is still possible that she never will. Some hens will only sit on a nest of eggs when the whole clutch is there, while others will stay on the nest constantly after they lay their first egg. One of my hens sat on her nest after she laid her first egg (of that clutch) and stayed on there till they hatched. In the end she only had three eggs and two of them hatched. This year she became broody again and stole most of her eggs from the younger birds. (She is six years old so her egg production is poor). On her first day brooding she had 7 eggs. Now she has 10 eggs and I moved the rest of the birds so that she stops thieving. If you only have one hen and you want to see if she is broody put a few golf b
