What's the Best Breed of Chicken

to get broody hens?

Bantams

The Speckled Sussex would be a excellent choice.

Heritage breed bantams. Because they never gained traction for egg or meat production they were never "improved" to reduce broodiness. Nankins are most notable for this and at one time we're kept just for brooding eggs of all types.

The egg breeds, mediterranean, are the least likely to go broody. The dual purpose hit or miss. But when you get one hen that goes broody she most likely will go broody each laying season.

Colonel Sanders.

J Stratton I just got my Stromberg catalogue in. Every year they remind me that there are far more breeds than any of us realize. Lots of information on each.

You can go to their website and browse and or request a catalogue.

We've had a few Silkies through the years.

They were super broody.

I bred a Cornish hen to a centipede trying to get more legs but that wasn’t the answer. I couldn’t catch them.

Another one known for that.

Silkies are probably better than Nankins. Nankins will hit the trees if left to free range, silkies not so much.

I like my Orpington’s

In no particular order…Hardee’s, Bojangles, and even get a craving for KFC.

Traditional Malaysian Seramas are what I use to hatch expensive eggs, that I don't artificially incubate. I only keep breeders in Seramas from stock that was naturally hatched. I've used Seramas to hatch chicken, pheasant, peafowl, turkey, duck and pigeon eggs.

Silkies, gamefowl and bantam cochins generally do a good job too.

Keith

American gamefowl

I have had a couple of buff Orpingtons go broody.

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calmest hens I have ever had. You could pick them up. Big brown eggs

barr rock always for us

the buff rocks i had years ago would get broody at the drop of a hat

I have a Colombian Wyandotte that is near always broody.

Rhode Island Reds, we averaged close to 250 eggs a year out of them. They get very broody. Very mild manner birds and easy keepers.

I like the Rhode Island red and barr rocks

silkies

Probably bantams in whatever form, for the larger egg layers, Buff Orpingtons . They are also easy to graft new chicks to, put them under a broody hen at night.

Silkies

Yes, sir. Smart, broody warriors.

Some of the hatchery sites list how broody different breeds are. Broody chickens are not the best layers. I got Buff Orpingtons in hopes they will hatch some chicks snd I won't have to buy more. I got ISA browns and have Buff roosters. I got the ISA for the eggs, and Buff's for broody. Both are real tame chickens.

Banquet….or Churches

Have 17 Rhode Island hens, not a single one broody. Unless I want to incubate I need to find a broody breed that fits well with Rhode Island chickens.

My father favored game hens. Once they hatched out if anything messed with the chicks they payed the price. His favorite egg layers were Rhode Island reds. He would get 100 straight run every spring. When the cockerels started to feel their oats they went in the freezer. Having said that we almost never ate any chicken,,,,go figure.

Egyptian fayoumi has always been a a favorite of mine, including being broody. They're also an interesting and overall great breed to have. Read about them sometime. I free range my flock quite a bit, and of course I lose birds to predators, but out of all of the different breeds I've had over the years, the Fayoumi are almost always the last ones to be taken. They're alert, broody, quick, flighty, and supposedly disease resistant.