Recent content by meira

  1. M

    Broody Chicken

    We definitely would give her some chicks but this timing wasn't so good. At the time she started sitting, we recently let another hen hatch out some babies, and we just wouldn't like to add any more to our flock right now. If she was to sit next year, it would've been different. But if this does...
  2. M

    Broody Chicken

    We have tried repeatedly removing her from the nesting boxes, closing them off, removing the hay we have inside of them, putting her in a broody cage for two days, and even placing something cold under her to possibly make her discouraged (we removed it not long after when we noticed it didn’t...
  3. M

    Broody Chicken

    A month into her being in this behavior we tried a broody cage. We kept her in there for the day and at night we let her out to hopefully go back into the coop with our others. She clucked and paced all day in the cage, and the second we let her out she went straight to the nesting boxes. We...
  4. M

    Broody Chicken

    Hi there! I currently have a broody chicken, I used to have 3 but the other two gave up since we don't want them hatching eggs. But, this one hen has not given up and it has been 3 months now. I am very worried that she will hurt herself constantly sitting, the only way I can get her to come out...
See more
Back
Top Bottom