![]() A hen might start to set on eggs, but grow disinterested before the 21-day hatching period was up. We tried Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds and finally Buff Orphingtons but not with much luck. So we started experimenting with old fashioned breeds that still carry the mothering instinct. Egg factories do not want hens that quit laying every year to hatch out a clutch of eggs as nature intended hens to do. But the commercial breeds of chickens we were raising have had the hatching instinct all but bred out of them. With the cost of chicks from hatcheries getting higher, we decided to try to get one of our hens to hatch the few chicks we needed every year to replenish our little flock. The odds were against Uno ever coming into existence.
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