Is she broody?

[therandomhatcher]

It's been a pretty interesting day today. I went out to check on everybody, and may 30 week old chukars were all dead, and I looked in a chicken nesting box and found a hen not wanting to get out of it. I went to get all the eggs I had been saving to either try to get a hen to go broody, or incubate, and put them in the nesting box. she pulled them under her as a broody would, but isn't screaming or anything when I get close and lift her though. she has been there for 30 minutes about and won't move. This is the first time I ever had a chicken seem to want to go broody so I don't know the behaviours very well.

 

[sourland]

It all depends upon how long she has been in the nesting box. If she stays there overnight, she is probably broody.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

... may 30 week old chukars were all dead, ...

Chukar partridge?
What killed them?

 

[therandomhatcher]

@ChickenCanoe I believe a raccon ripped through their flight pen netting. Something bigg than a cat but smaller than a coyote, all it left was a piece of crap, literally.

 

[therandomhatcher]

By the way, it might have came out wrong, there is not 30, week old chukars, but there was 8 30 week olds