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Follow up info. Separated the broody hen from the others in a small pen with no nesting box for two days. Voila! Back to normal!! Thanks for yalls help.

I'll check her

Hasn't laid any eggs.

Well she's sitting in nesting box 24/7. Puffed up. And pulls all eggs she can find under her. Ive had broody hens but not this young. This is my first Polish Chick if that makes any difference. Has laid any eggs either.

My polish hen only 7 months old has gone broody. Do they go broody that young? Also when one goes broody do the other hens stop laying or lay somewhere else around the yard (1 1/2 acre yard)? Thanks for all y'all's worldly knowledge!!

When we started being a chicken farmer only had 5 strand barb wire around 1 1/2 acre home place. Next our neighbors we're getting rid of 1000 ft of goat wire which went up against our barb wire. All the while loosing hens to the Bob cats. Trapping was only catching possums and coons. Next we put...

Thanks for all the replies regarding our bobcat problem. We went with electrifying the perimeter of our acre and a half homestead. Set up with 1.2 joule charger with wire about 3 feet high and another strand 6 feet high. So far haven't lost another hen. Tractor Supply was most helpful with what...

Hens are put up at dusk and the coop is more than sufficiently predator proof. The problem is while free ranging the blankety blank bobcat(s) are helping themselves to a free lunch. We've hired a trapper in the past with no luck. Have now sat out one live trap and 9 jaw traps with bait.

Has anyone had any success at trapping bobcats? I'm pulling my hair out trying to save my ladies from bobcats' finger licking good lunches!!! Have had good luck for the last six months but now they're back. Seen them on trail cameras. TIA

Ok. We've separated him and will check in the morning. We've started with 10 chicks back in February and I'm afraid six of them are roosters. The two hens that just started laying the first 3 eggs are welsummers I have been told. The alpha is a huge RIR.

We are just beginning chickening. Our first 4 are 2hens 2 roosters. The Alpha rooster was driving our 2 hens crazy along with 4 others that unluckily are roosters too. So we have taken our "tired" two hens out of the equation and now the other roosters are pecking the heck out of our alpha...