is it normal?

[lambs.are.cute]

Is is it normal for a hen to hatch two broods a year? I have a hen that just hatched out a batch this spring, raised them untill they were able to fend for themselves and is now started another nest and brooding eggs.

[MDKatie]

Yes. My hen Wanda is now brooding her second batch. She lives to brood. Not the best mother, but LOVES hatching eggs.

[whodunit]

If they are bantys (sp?) they will sit on anything.

[KSALguy]

game hens, bantams, cochins and silkies all are known to be very broody, also Muscovys can and normally do between two and three clutches a year, maybe more in the south,

[lambs.are.cute]

She sure does live to sit on eggs (she started this nest on wooden eggs). She is a bantam cochin.

[JanO]

I've got a couple that would brood all year long if they could. Don't know why, but they love to sit on a nest.

[KSALguy]

they are worth their weight in Gold as far as i am concerned, free incubation and brooding, nothing better

[ladycat]

Some hens will brood more than twice a year! My standard cochin hen starts setting again right away after she boots a clutch (as soon as they're fully feathered). She's raising several broods a year!

[lambs.are.cute]

Oh good. I would like that. I kept her because she went broody and I would like her to do more than one batch a year. I don't think that she will get more than two this year though because of the crazy weather this year.

[barnyardgal]

I have one that is sitting on her second hatch which i put guinea eggs under her-

got another one is sitting i put quail eggs under--both hens are bantys-they are sitting fools-