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Yahoo! Baby's back! Six days after she finally gave up the broodiness, she laid a little tiny 1-3/4 oz. egg this morning -- looks so minute along with the other girls' Large and X-Large eggs -- all 4 piled into the 3 nesting boxes together this morning pretty much at once, and looks like we're...

Quote: Hey, don't we all like a nice cold pack on our tummies from time to time, especially when it's HOT! Just once I've found two hens in one small nesting box, one lying on top of the other -- they looked so offended when I looked in and saw them that I left them alone -- they both...

Quote: Again, I haven't much experience having just gone through this for the first time, but Baby did much the same as your Cochin a month or so BEFORE she really became broody. She continued to lay eggs but did spend a lot of time sitting on them if I didn't get them taken out, she also...

From another pretty inexperienced voice....have you tried the ice packs? They probably won't melt quite as fast as ice cubes, tho in your heat might not last all that much longer either, but maybe worth a try. Another thought, if you do want to put them in cages.....do you have a cool room in...

Quote: If you're talking to me about the trials and tribulations of Broody Baby -- yeah, it was a lot of work, but I got used to the routine, and then I didn't really know what I was doing for the first few weeks. If I'd taken the advice about the cage more seriously in the beginning, it...

Quote: Yahoo! Mission accomplished! Very normal day today and Baby didn't even look at the nesting box but hung out with the girls all day and tonight she went right in and up on the roost with no assist from me! Normal life resumes.... Huge sigh of relief! Thanks to all of you who gave...

Quote: That's something I hadn't heard of doing but does make sense -- sure would have tried it 4 weeks ago and might well have helped nip it in the bud! If you've read thru all the posts, you'll see that the cage seems to have worked a small miracle this week...whew!

I like that ranging around too -- she's been out all morning, close to 5 hours, and is sticking with the other girls. They are all lying down in the shade right now preening a bit, Baby is scrunched up next to her best buddy and looks most content. No one has gone in to lay anything yet, usually...

Quote: Thanks -- wish I could say I was responsible but that's sort of a wild back area -- ivy, azaleas, rhodies, redwoods, maples and lots of big and small shrubby things -- yes, I had a lot of it planted over the years, but I let someone else deal with it most of the time. We hacked an area...

Hey listen, I just appreciate all the help you've been giving me and I don't care if you got her breed wrong or couldn't decipher that not very clear or well-detailed photo -- heck who could tell if the newspaper was over or under all that wire?! The lines make your eyes cross! No apologies...

Quote: Since you reminded me about it, I just checked Henderson's and - sigh - it says about Brahmas: Good or frequent brooder! Glad I got that cage, hope it works! One of these days I just may get her a chick to take care of -- something suggested to me at the feed store -- but still not a...

Glad to know the cage is fine. She's not on newspaper -- there's a slide out drawer below the cage for stuff that drops through the wire bottom and that's where the newspaper is. She doesn't like walking on the wire bottom at all but is up on the two thin perches which I put together to fit her...

Well, the almost normal behavior lasted about 30 minutes and she was right back into the coop -- oddly, since there were no wooden eggs in the nesting boxes, she just lay out on the floor of the coop next to the boxes and another of the girls was in there with her and she laid her egg there...

Hi DDawn and Jena! Thanks -- it's always nice to know others are suffering along with you! I appreciate all the good advice too! I'm off to buy a wire crate of some sort this morning having just had the roost removed from the outer cage leading into the coop to make room to put a crate in...

Quote: OK -- I think you've convinced me!! I'm going to give it a whirl with eggs removed and putting her on roost at night, then continue removing her during the day -- give it a few more days and if it doesn't finally do the trick, I'm going to go get that big dog cage you describe...

Quote: Hey, thanks, you give me some hope! I'm hoping after finding no wooden eggs and being moved to the roost for a few nights maybe she'll give it up -- we'll see. As it is, I've been bringing her out mid-day till bedtime every day but that alone hasn't helped much -- except perhaps broke...

Quote: Funny you should mention that.......the thought went through my mind about fifteen minutes ago and I was thinking maybe I should find out what I need to know and do and if there would be any interest at the feed store in chicks. I haven't a clue but think I'll see what it might entail...

Quote: Wow! Not as hot here as for you guys, but in low hundreds on and off past couple of weeks and some days just do me in -- I work on keeping all the girls cool and watered, myself included! Sounds like we're in a similar situation with our broody girls, right down to the others not...

Quote: Oh gosh, 3 months!!!! Yikes! I haven't been sure about the wire cage for various reasons like you and haven't pursued it since I got home, but maybe I should if much more time goes by. But broodiness is not healthy for them, especially over 3 weeks, and when those wooden eggs don't...

Quote: Sounds much like my girl -- being annoyed and the rather interesting vocalizations. No, I won't put any eggs under her -- sorry we can't compare notes on that, but I simply don't want chicks, only have a very small coop that accommodates the 4 girls, and got older pullets on purpose --...