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    Help with a chronic broody hen

    Good to know, maybe we will get a couple more 🤷🏻‍♂️
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    Help with a chronic broody hen

    We may do that but I’m fairly certain I’ve read you want to keep the chicks separated from the flock for a while and currently I’m just not sure where we would put them. When we got these chicks last Mother’s Day we just kept them in an empty water trough with a screen on the top in our garage...
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    Help with a chronic broody hen

    She will sit in there if there’s eggs under her or not and I suppose she could be too heavy but the other jersey has no problem getting to it. It’s only slightly higher than their heads so it’s not a crazy jump by any means.
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    Help with a chronic broody hen

    We definitely have we definitely have considered selling her, trading her, or like you mentioned, giving her fertile eggs or day old chicks. We would ideally like to keep her as she is a good lawyer when she is laying and is a sweet girl. Maybe I could loan her out? Haha
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    Help with a chronic broody hen

    They free range from sunrise to sunset then get locked up at night. We only have 6 hens (2 jersey giants, 1 leghorn, 2 red sex links?, and 1 amberlink?) we generally get 3-5 eggs per day except for when the one is broody and then there for a while we were short and found 10eggs under a pricker...
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    Help with a chronic broody hen

    Ya we will just keep on breaking her and hope it sticks one of these times. We currently use the “premium pine shavings” sold by our local feed store. I haven’t seen any of those plastic pads before I’ll have to look those up
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    Help with a chronic broody hen

    We don’t have a rooster so it’s doin her nor the eggs any good to sit on them and she can get aggressive with the other hens when they come in to lay.
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    Help with a chronic broody hen

    Yes, not a ton buts a good 3 inches or so off the ground
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    Help with a chronic broody hen

    Hello everyone, first I’d like th thank thurs community as I’ve learned so much on this site. so, I have a roughly 1 year old jersey giant that has been going broody off and on since late February. At first I wasn’t sure what she was doing but thanks to this site I’ve learned it’s definitely...
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