broodiness

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Good day folks, I am Biko from the Philippines. I just want to ask for advices and tips on how to encourage again my hen to become broody. To give you guys a background, her name is Ulikbars, an Ayam Cemani x Chinese silkie hen. I bought her for about 8 dollars, she is 1 year old at that time...

I have a small flock of six chickens and several of them have started laying outside of the coop in the flower garden under one of my windows this week. One of the chickens had been broody until about a week ago (she has not started laying yet after being broody) and I'm wondering if her...

I was just listening to the Huberman podcast with guest Dr. Kyle Gillette and they were discussing hormones. At one point they were talking about “broodiness” in humans being caused by increased prolactin and mentioned that there were various supplements and medications given to humans to...

This is the first time I’ve encountered a broody hen. Her name is FooFoo and she’s a Cochin. About 14 months old. Right now, she’s sitting on golf balls. We don’t have any fertilized eggs. I’ve read about it being important to “break” broodiness, but as a natural process in the chicken’s...

Hi everyone! What’s your ‘go-to’ chicken when you want a broody hen in your flock? Yes incubators are great but mama hen is my preference when I have a choice!! I know silkies are renowned broodies but I’m just wondering what your favourite breeds or particular cross breeds are to use as...

I was wondering since quail lost their broodiness, can I bring it back with selective breeding?

If I hatch eggs in an incubator is there any likelihood that a female could grow up to brood her own? Are there any particular types that are more likely to do this? Thanks!

Hey! I’d love to hear from people who own Silkies and about your experience with them! Laying abilities? Behaviour/temperament? How often do they go broody? Winter laying? Etc

A month ago I bought a pair of Ringnecks. The shopkeeper told me that it's a pair. But as I've observed I think both are males because both of them do bow cooing in front of eachother and both of them try to get on top of the other as they do during mating. Yesterday I left 2 quail eggs in their...

I purchased some Muscovy Ducks about two or three weeks ago and I have some questions about them. Ive read that they like to perch and have things to roost on so I found some scrap wood and made a place for them to perch. (They have wooden fence beam 4in x 4in x 8ft to perch on outside and a 2x8...

So I have 4 hens currently. I was planning on getting fertilized eggs from a friend of mine and having my own hens raise them. Problem is my hens could care less. Not a single one of them will sit on eggs. Is there any way to induce broodiness? Or are my hens just really not interested in being...

Is it normal for a hen/pullet to sit on her egg for 5-10 minutes after laying? It’s not that I don’t want her to go broody, I just want to know if she is.

I have three chickens, which I've had for about a year now and they have always laid in one of two nesting boxes. They always lay in just one box, never laid in the other box. All three generally lay every day so after hearing a lot of squawking today from my brown leghorn I went to check for an...

I’ve been having a major problem with my birds going broody. I may have found a solution, based on the theory that after laying about fifteen eggs my chooks tend to always go broody. However, if they loose the nest site before they start incubating they go to a new nest site and start the egg...

Hi all, I have a 16 weeks old white young hen; she has laid 11 eggs since she started laying. This early morning when I wanted to get the new laid egg in the nesting box, she pecked at me many times and seemed really angry and aggressive. Is it possible to such a young hen to go broody so soon...

I have a quail hen I am pretty sure is broody. She even rolled another hen's underneath herself. What makes this particularly funny is I don't actually have a rooster at all! The thing is is ever since she went into this state, she's been chasing around her sister and pecking her pretty...

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...

I am considering getting some D’Uccles in my next lot of chicks, But I was just wondering how broody they go. Some websites tell me they go broody all the time, But some say they are average. Which do I believe? So basically I am just asking (As in the title), How often do D’Uccles go broody?

I always hear about how to break broody hens, but sometimes i find a pile of wild eggs, (from my peacocks or turkeys ) or like now i want to hatch more coturnix quails out, not in an incubator though, i didnt have too good of success incubating quail eggs. So is there any way you can cause...