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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Yes, and some will grab a chunk of your flesh and try to wring a hunk out of you. Especially the Games. Some are mean ol’ heifers. And some of the little Game mamas are sweet as pie and let me pet on them while they set.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Maybe not all lines of Game are created equal then because ours are crazy broody. And very fierce mothers. They are old lines of pit game, mainly Kelsos and one line of Gray.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    That’s how it goes. When you want them to go broody, they don’t. And when you don’t want them to, they all go broody. The chicken code of conduct is to do the opposite of what the humans want them to do. Which is why my Stargazer Lilies perished. The chickens ate them all. 😩
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I was always told if a cockerel can crow he can throw it down. 😆
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    They are acting on a hormonal and instinctual urge, not a psychological desire to have a family. lol But it is an act that seems rather important to them, I agree. 🤣🤣
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Yes, unfortunately some breeds of chickens are not so smart when it comes to hatching and raising chicks, especially when they are young. I let an Olive Egger hen hatch a clutch last year and she did not keep up with her chicks at all on day one. That is usually when they are the most...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Sounds like one heck of a hen. I love a good rugged hen like that. I have some that eat very little while broody because they don’t come off at feeding time but they don’t lose much body condition since they are all very well fed beforehand. They do just fine on what all they find when they...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    There are broody hens galore here! Lots of Game and one Game mix are setting already. We are putting good eggs under a few of them tonight. This is a Game mix and she is sitting in my husband’s old junker S10. She gets in and out through the busted back window. There are several...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    The best Landrace type chickens we own that most certainly can survive well without much human intervention are anything crossed on Game, especially our Game/Legbar crosses. They are VERY flighty and broody chickens and roost way up high in the trees with the Games and Leghorns.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    If you cross the Browns with a broody breed, a percentage of the pullets from the cross may inherit the broody gene. You could keep those birds for your Landrace project and just selectively breed them for broodiness. Allowing only the hens that go broody to reproduce and collecting eggs from...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I purchased a line of Brown Leghorns from Don Schrider and he says his birds go broody, but none of mine have as of yet but they are young. So the jury is out on that. They are more of a Heritage type exhibition Leghorn, not like the commercial ones. My hatchery Brown Leghorns have never went...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Most of my Olive Eggers are heavy girls because of the Marans ancestry. However I do have a few that are lighter like a Legbar, but the ones that are lighter like the Legbars lay lighter eggs than the ones that are heavier with more Marans genetics. So definitely not a good Landrace candidate...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Moral of the story, even some broody breeds make terrible mothers. And some breeds of chickens do not have a lot of survival instinct. lol My Marans and Olive Eggers are terrible mothers like that. We do not allow any of them to hatch anymore, because the chicks suffer from their stupidness...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Trust me, domesticated chickens could not care less whether they possess the instinct to go broody or not. Their brains are tiny and most chicken breeds survive based on what instincts they have left and a lot of direct human management and intervention. They care about food, shelter, water...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Not necessarily true at all. You could keep some Game hens or another broody breed around to hatch the eggs of the non-broody breed in the absense of incubators. Non-broodiness is not a negative trait in a breed like Leghorns, it is a very positive trait, even on a non-industrial scale. They...
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