Do the Lavender and Black/Lavender splits tend to be broodier than most of the other colors? I\'d always heard that Ameraucanas aren\'t a very broody breed.
This picture was taken about a week and a half ago.
Since then, 2 more broodies have joined in, so I now have
4 broody Ameraucanas! ...4 out of the 6 I have in the breeding pen, so I\'m only getting about three or four eggs a week now.
Both of the 2 new girls are on the top shelf squashed up next to the other one. When you walk up to them they puff up so big that it looks like one giant hen with three angry growling heads! I need to get a new photo to show you, it\'s pretty scary looking!
By the way, these girls aren\'t even a year old yet.
There are 14 eggs total. There were 16 but 2 got cracked early on. The other two girls laid a few more eggs but I took them and put them in the incubator since they were laid several days later. These should hatch very soon, but I didn\'t record the date because I really didn\'t take these girls seriously, lol! Do you think they\'ll be good moms?