Using small game hens to set pheasant eggs

[countrytweety2001]

I made a bid on some ruffed pheasant eggs. I havent perfected my use of the incubator yet. I had an old timer tell me, that he would use small game hens to hatch out pheasant eggs with and had almost a 100% hatch rate. The incubator I bought to hatch coturnix quail with and I still need to work on my skills. So who else has used small chickens to hatch eggs?

[DoubleL911]

If i were going to have chickens on the some ground with my game birds they would be Silkies those girls will hatch a golf ball.
Have old timer neighbor using them.
Good luck
Larry Lain
www.doublelquailfarms.com

[TENNESSERED]

I also have some silkies.  Every year I let them sit and hatch a clutch of pheasant eggs.  They also make great mothers for their adoptive chicks.  I have had others tell me they use bb red hens and also sebrights, but I 've not tried them.

[kingwolf]

i have use regular sized fowl to hatch chukar eggs and of course some of the eggs got crushed because of their larger size but the eggs that did survive all hatched and i still have them to this day