brood hen

  1. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    she's very broody and the designated egg watcher tm and i steal her eggs every morning and she nips at me and fluffs up real big. These aren't just warning pecks either!!! she goes in for the kill. I want to try and find a way to get on better terms with her. We tried letting her hatch her own...
  2. LadyGG

    Brooding- Not brooding

    So I had a hen that was brooding for several weeks. I had been trying to get chicks for her but for some reason everyone and their mother was buying every single chick within hours of arriving at the store! Today, I finally got my hands on 4 chicks, unfortunately my hen is no longer brooding...
  3. N

    Broody Hen Wont Drink Water But is eating.

    About 3 times a day i have been helping her get the food and water she needs to survive whilst incubating her eggs. It's currently only day 3 and I'm stressing as she won't drink any water. She was drinking alot yesterday but today I haven't seen her drink at all. I've tried to show her, she...
  4. PantherWaltz

    Is humidity a worry when using a broody?

    Hi, there! One of my hens went broody, it's her first time, and we decided to give her some fertile eggs to hatch. The eggs are do late next week to early the week after. We've never used a broody, and I've never successfully hatched on my own to begin with. So my question is do I have to worry...
  5. C

    I Hatched New Chicks; Now What?

    One of my Orpingtons went broody at the beginning of May & all my girls decided they wanted baby chicks. So we let her sit on the eggs & now... They are hatching!!!! What's next? I'm new to chickens & have raised chicks only in a brooder. Should I move some food & water in with mama & the...
  6. TheCountryBoy

    An angry broody hen pecked me in the eye

    Earlier today one of my Old English Game Bantams wasn’t happy with me and pecked me in the eye. I’m not sure if I closed my eye when it did hit me but it hurts a lot. Me and my family are closely monitoring my eye for infection and we have eye drops on standby if one is spotted. Mainly what I...
  7. Cheetah Chicks

    Broody hen sit on machine incubating eggs ?

    Hi All Its an urgent situation. Since several weeks one of my.hen was getting puffy like puffer fish if any rooster comes near or behaving touch me not types. I realise that this is a precursor behaviour of being broody. Now she is broody since yesterday,and i am already incubating the eggs...
  8. Little Tala Bug

    One of our girls was missing for over two weeks...

    One evening over two weeks ago, one of our girls, Henrietta, vanished into thin air. We searched everywhere for days to no avail, and eventually resigned ourself to preparing for the worst. Yesterday morning we got a fresh batch of pullets in from a nearby farm and were in the garden...
  9. E

    hen brooding on ceramic egg - should I kick her off the nest?

    My turkey hen got really broody the last couple of days. She only turns out about two or three eggs a week but she’ll sit on the empty nest and wait for the next one to come out. I gave her a ceramic egg to make her happy and she’s been very protective of it - this is promising to me because...
  10. Chickensrule69

    Hey I have a question on my silkies eggs

    So I don’t know how long my silkie (lemon is her name) has been broody but I have been candling her eggs and to me they look fine but idk they’re are some what different she has been broody before but the difference in these eggs is that I can candle them from both sides idk if that’s normal...
  11. Agwhite

    Broody Duck In The Winter!?

    It is the middle of winter here in Alabama and I have a Muscovy hen going broody. We're in the middle of January! I don't understand what’s going through her mind, other than she's a Muscovy duck and they just love the process of hiding and sitting on eggs. I don’t think this is a good idea...
    • Agwhite
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    • brood hen broody duck ducks eggs & duck muscovy behavior nesting behavior waterfowl winter 2022
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    • Forum: Ducks
  12. J

    Broody hen in winter

    Live in south Louisiana, We have a hen and this Is her second time going broody, She hatched 3/5 last time. We have moved her into a quite darker area alone from the others. She is very dedicated, seems she doesn’t want to move. When we check her food and water it seems untouched? We have temps...
  13. Agwhite

    Duck nesting in the fall??

    I have a large flock of mallards and 4 successful mothers that raised ducklings this past spring. It is now the end of September, and my dog has recently been sniffing around the back porch. Little did I know another hen had a nest of 10 eggs hidden under my staircase! I saw her sitting on them...
    • Agwhite
    • Thread
    • brood hen duck ducklings mallard nesting behavior
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Ducks
  14. B

    Broody hen hatched baby chick ... now what?!

    I decided to give my broody hen some hatching eggs and then a second hen started to sit right along with her. They only successfully hatched 1 egg yesterday. I was hoping for mother nature to take its course and it seemed like one of the hens was going to take care of her, but now it seems...
  15. K

    Please help

    Ok, I recently found that one of my dang brood hens laid several eggs in an old feed tub in the barn. Flash forward a few days and my hubby comes inside saying he found a bunch of eggs and the “missing” hen and he moved them back to the coop. BUT when he was moving them he dropped the tub.. a...
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