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How do I get my hen to go broody?

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gckiddhouse

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Dec 9, 2008
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I love that all you people are chick hatching obsessed. I think you are all wonderful. However, I don't share that obsession. I thought that having chicks was fun, but a LOT of work!!! I don't have time for that again. I love my full grown, self feeding, egg giving, lovelies. I do want more chickens, though.
How do i get more chickens? Well, I do have a rooster, but he isn't of a breed that I want. He and the hen that matches him are not nice. He is a good roo. He can stay, i just don't want his offspring.
I don't like the idea of buying full grown chickens. I don't know where they've been, ya know?
I could get older pullets, like 6-8 weeks. But I don't know about the whole quarantine process. I don't have the facilities for that.
What I really want to do is get fertile eggs and have one of my hens do all that work in raising the little darlings.
I have a BO who was spending about half the day in her box, screeching at anyone who dared open the door while she was there. But now she isn't really doing that. I was really hopeful. I tried putting all the eggs under her to see if she would set, but she left them.

How do I get a half broody hen to go all the way?? Can it be done?? Help!
 
Well good morning, from what I have been reading I don't think you can make them. I'm sure when someone else gets on here that knows more than me they can help you out. I think if you do a search you could find a lot of answers there.
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Nope... I've never heard of anyone making a hen go broody. You just kind of have to wait for them to do it on their own. Having silkies and millies, I usually don't have to wait too long for one or another to go broody on me...
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Do they go broody on one egg? I collect eggs every day. Should i leave her eggs out there or put dummy eggs in for her to feel like there is a whole clutch?

Don't they go broody only when there is a clutch to start incubating. I know that they don't incubate until they have a clutch, right?
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i dont think you can make a hen go broody.
i have heard some say you can though by isolating the hen in a dark box with a nest, leave her alone for a week or so.

make sure she has food and water and a little room to strech. like i said i dont know if this will work but i have heard others say it will work
 
how long do you have to leave them?
(you the one with the red white blue, game roo?)
will it work on all breeds?
 
It all depends on the breed and the hen, some take a day or 2 and some can take a week or so. If you have a silkie, they will sit at the drop of a hat, some breeds are not sitters. I keep mutt banties just for sitting on eggs.

Not me with the roo.
 
what about plymouth rocks both barred and white? i heard both ways? some say they will never brood others say they cant stop em?
 
From my past exp. most of your heavier breeds are not good setters, you will find a few that will, but they are not as good as the banty are. Just my exp...............
 

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