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    broody hen is weak and pale, will she starve herself?

    Just to follow up--my hen is doing better. Starting to act back to normal, scratching around, begging for treats. She never returned to the eggs though, sadly. My best guess is that because she had been broody for a while before I got her the fertilized eggs, she had been "sitting" so long that...
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    broody hen is weak and pale, will she starve herself?

    My broody hen is still looking pretty bad. Now she wont sit on the eggs.She wont eat or drink. Her comb is almost white. She has bright green diarrhea. Just stands and stares, wont even lay down. I just put her in a big bucket of warm water, to wash her off, and in case she was egg bound, but no...
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    broody hen is weak and pale, will she starve herself?

    thank you! I just put her back on the nest and pushed her down. she's staying put. I will try to feed her again in a few hours. Maybe some gatorade or coconut water.
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    broody hen is weak and pale, will she starve herself?

    My 15 month old buff Orpington was stubborn broody for 10 days. Couldn't convince her to stop "sitting" so I bought her some fertilized eggs, and gave her a broody box, separate from my other hens. She sat on the eggs for a week, didn't leave the broody box even to eat or poop, so I brought food...
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