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I have a friend who wants to have a sustainable flock. She is looking for what she is calling “heirloom” hens “that haven’t had the broodiness bred out of them”. I have always discouraged broodiness when it happens in my flock because I don’t like butchering chickens and don’t need that much meet. I support my flock and garden projects with selling the eggs at a buy local stores and restaurants as well as others who regularly take things to the farmers markets in the cities so I really want eggs. I have found a few broody hens over the years and most of them are red stars and Rhodies because they are my best layers. I wasn’t aware that broodiness was bred out and wonder if she is just reciting a myth.