breaking broodiness

  1. PancakesMom

    When should I break my broody Muscovy?

    New to this community! I have a 10 month old Muscovy named Pancake who is on her first egg laying/ broody cycle. We have a lot of Muscovys in the area and we found Pancake as an abandoned hatchling and could not bear to leave her behind so we took her in. She is mainly an indoor bird but we do...
  2. analyticalblonde

    Can I put two Broody Hens together in my brooder breaker?

    Yesterday, after 3 days of my Ameraucana sitting in the nesting box, I knew she had gone broody. Took her off the nest and put her in my brooder breaker downstairs. Man! She was MAD! Meanwhile, yesterday I noticed my barred rock also not moving off one of the other nesting box...Today, she is...
  3. andreamunroe

    Breaking a broody in freezing weather?

    One of my Buff Orpingtons has gone broody, again (she went broody in the fall too). I have a seedling heater mat in the nest box to prevent frozen eggs- which is obviously not helping cool her down haha. I’ve been reading about the wire-bottom cage method- but it goes down to -15 or -20’C here...
  4. F

    Ideas please-Very determined Broody still brooding/sitting on wire cage bottom

    Our second hen went broody a copper Maran, about 1 year old. For a few days we kept throwing her out of nest box, then trying to confine her in backyard away from the others during the day so she could not return to box until she figured out she could fly back over quite a high gate.. so chicken...
  5. CanadaEh

    Broodiness affect on other chickens

    Can blocking nest for the night (by hanging empty feed bag over the entrance) for 2 nights in a row to break one broody hen can cause stress in other chickens - enough to drop egg production from 6-7 to 3-4 out of 7 hens? Alternatively, can one hen's broodiness by itself cause slowing in egg...
  6. S

    What Is Going On With My Hen??

    **Edited the chaos of the repeating post** So I got a 12 week old Buff Orphington pullet back in April. It only took her a couple weeks to start laying and quickly became the head hen of the flock. About a month ago, we went broody. But it started while my husband a I were away on vacation for...
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    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  7. Aspen Anderson

    Help! Extremely Broody Silkie!

    (I hope I'm posting this in the right location.) I always wanted a silkie. They're so cute and fluffy and cuddly and sweet and TOO GOSH DARN BROODY!!!! :thI have already searched up articles on how to stop broody behavior, but none of them are seeming to work for several reasons: 1) Remove...
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