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Post by couttleberry on Mar 2, 2005 9:59:33 GMT
One of my layers is acting broody... I think. From about 10:30 she'll go into the henhouse and sit on the nest. If I try to move her to see if there are eggs under her, she either gets angry and pecks me, screeches the henhouse down, or as yesterday, does nothing! She continues like this for a couple of hours but then in the afternoon she's back to normal even if there are eggs in the nest.
Is she broody or is she not? I was wanting to put some fertile eggs under her but think she may leave them.
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Post by Ash on Mar 2, 2005 10:58:44 GMT
hiya ,
when a chook goes broody they generaly want to lay a clutch of there own first , then they go broody .
Id wait and see if she sits tight on a nest first .
Ash
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Post by duckmad on Mar 3, 2005 19:32:40 GMT
try and get her settled somewhere on her own in a small run/pen/hutch. Then when she does eventually sit tight you wont have to move her to somewhere to sit. She may start laying her own eggs to hatch as well. You will also get to see if she is laying as if she isnt she is probably not going broody
duckmad
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Post by madcat on Mar 3, 2005 20:05:35 GMT
hiya well i have two hens like that the one has never yet actually gone broody , my mum saise must be hormones lol ;D. the other goes broody alot and tends to be like that for a month before she sits lol , madcat  |
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Post by couttleberry on Apr 18, 2005 14:30:33 GMT
This hen never went broody lol. She just seems to like to sit for about 3 hours when she is laying.
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Post by littlefeathers on Apr 18, 2005 16:19:43 GMT
maybe she was just being a lazy madam then  |
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