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    Is it common for a young hen to go broody?

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    Is it common for a young hen to go broody?

    It's great it's not a problem for you, but we don't have a Cockerel so no chance of hatching babies. This is the first time I've had a broody, she's a light Sussex and apparently that breed is prone to broodiness, wish I'd done more research before I bought her, but I wouldn't part with her now...
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    Is it common for a young hen to go broody?

    Thank goodness she finished brooding on 2nd May, when she willingly went out of the coop as soon as we opened it and stayed out free ranging all day. In addition to locking her out of the coop each day and placing her on a roosting bar each night, we twice sat her in cool water. The water method...
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    Is it common for a young hen to go broody?

    Thank you for your help
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    Is it common for a young hen to go broody?

    OMG, BlindLemonChicken and Auntiejessi3, thank you so much for setting me straight. For info, a local farmer recommended the sitting on fake eggs method. As I don't have a suitable cage, and to be honest can't afford to buy a dog cage or similar, I'll just have to shut her out of the coop...
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    Is it common for a young hen to go broody?

    It's official, she's definitely broody. I didn't have the heart (or a suitable cage) to break the broodiness, so I got a couple of China eggs that she's sitting on. Hopefully she'll realise that they're not going to hatch and abandon then at some point, I read it takes about 2 weeks. We shoo her...
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    Is it common for a young hen to go broody?

    Beautiful feathers, thanks for the photo
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    Is it common for a young hen to go broody?

    Lovely photo, thanks very much
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    Is it common for a young hen to go broody?

    Thanks ridgerunner, she spent last night on the nest as well, but after a lot of squawking she accepted being shooed out of the coop, she had already laid, as had the others and was sitting on all the eggs. We have 3 nest boxes (and 3 chickens) but they all like to use the same one🙄
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    Is it common for a young hen to go broody?

    Thanks very much for the link to the article, good to know if things get out of hand
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    Is it common for a young hen to go broody?

    Thanks Hillbilly Hen, is there any way to stop the broodiness would you know
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    Is it common for a young hen to go broody?

    hi, I have 10 month old light Sussex, last night she didn't sleep on the perch with the others but instead slept in one of the nesting boxes. Today she sat in the nesting box for hours, we honestly thought she was having trouble laying. She is normally quite timid and docile, but pecked...
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    New chicken having trouble laying.

    I bought 3 new pallets in September, 2 started laying late October, lovely firm brown shells, small, but getting bigger. However, the 3rd one, a red rock, laid her first egg in mid November, seemingly without issue. She's only laid 9 or 10 eggs since then and recently seemed to be having trouble...
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    Need help with introducing new pullets

    Thanks a lot azygous, the older ones are trained to the call "chop chop" (nothing to do with butchering, honest):D It just sounds like the noise they make when calling to each other. The new ones not so much, but will re-enforce with them over the next day or so - fingers crossed
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    Need help with introducing new pullets

    Thank you Ridgerunner for your great advice and reassurance, I've had a word with farmer, we can put up temporary fencing (40' x 20') so they don't wander to far until the pecking order is sorted. We always herd the older ones in before sunset so it's no issue to do the same with all of them.
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    Need help with introducing new pullets

    Thanks very much for the suggestion Yardmom, it's a good idea. The only difficulty I face with doing this is the older ones free range in the next door farmers field. There's only one entrance into it via a chicken sized tunnel the farmer allowed us to dig. For the new chickens to get there, the...
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    Need help with introducing new pullets

    Thanks for your advice ruffled feathers. There are roosting bars at various heights in both runs, there is also a kennel with a sand box in it attached to the new chickens run which has space to hide in. They have separate feeders and water containers. I can put in a couple of apple crates for...
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    Need help with introducing new pullets

    Many thanks azygous. I thought I had done the wrong thing, but it's very difficult to watch normally friendly and passive chickens become so quickly nasty, especially as they have been only separated by a piece of chicken wire since late September, and make noises at each all the time. It's...
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    Need help with introducing new pullets

    Hi, Ridgerunner, many thanks for this reassurance. The pullets are around 21 weeks old now and are all laying, they are almost the same size as the older flock. You are right about the sweetest hen being a brute. Ginger who always seemed to be the most submissive in the older flock was the one...
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    Need help with introducing new pullets

    Hi all, I recently added to my tiny flock of 3 birds (only 2 laying) with 3 lovely pullets. They have been in a separate coop and run, but can see each other through chicken wire. This has been the case since end of September. Yesterday we removed the wire separating them and all it was like a...
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