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My brahma is excellent layer she also tried brooding and was a mean broody but is so sweet otherwise. Never had a feathered foot problem with either brahmas ive owned and now i have some Black Copper Marans eith feathered feet and no issues yet. And they dont care a bit about confinement. I cant...

Mine did the same went broody at the end of August, finished her molt 2 weeks ago. And now is apparently done laying for the year, like all my chickens.

If she just started laying expect a little bit of off behavior she will come around.

Yes. Most backyard bred birds are higher quality and closer standard than ones bred in a hatchery, so opposite of dogs. For my preference, i will not be buying from a hatchery again if not needed. There is so much difference and i like the ones that arent from a hatchery more. Pictures below of...

Aggressive behavior is she did pick on the little ones when i put them in (normal pecking order, but she wouldnt back down till she was boss). This only arose after her being broody. She is coming back around being super sweet to the chicks and let me pick her up again!

My buff orpington was really sweet until she went broody. She is coming around again to being nice. None of her eggs hatched so i do think thats why she got more aggressive. She was fairly easy to break when she tried to go back to brooding after no eggs hatched. Generally she was the boss after...