@9a8f090b @8f56b62c — we’ve helped one chick and one duck.  The chick ended up with a super gimpy leg and we culled at about a week old.  The duckling ended up okay, but was super weak at first.

Good on your mamma hen!  

How old is she?  Out oldest are only about 1-1/2 years and we’ve seen very little broodiness so far. 😕 

 She's about 2yrs old. Shoot I've been dealing with broody hens since they started laying. I break one then the next one starts. That's why I just let this one have them. It was too hot to put her in quarantine. I've got another one trying to be broody RN too. It's contagious
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 @9a8f090b — interesting. What breed are they?

We’re not much into the eggs and more want a self-regenerating flock we can occasionally cull for meat. Ours are all Dominiques; apparently broodiness varies wildly depending on the lines.

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 They are Easter eggers/Buff orphington crossed with mix Bantam something and Easter egger so basically my own mixed breed I've created lol 
I will probably start to cull a few a year so I will try to keep the bigger ones going or maybe just do a separate pen for meat birds, not sure yet.
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