broody chicken

  1. Chickens :)

    Is this normal broody behaviour?

    hello everyone. I have a broody hen that has been sitting on her eggs for a week now but I have noticed some strange behaviours. There are two other broody hens that I put eggs under at the same time and they are doing really well. They get off the eggs twice a day and eat and drink, the other...
  2. Chickens :)

    Broody hen scratching her beak

    hello everyone. I have a broody hen that has been sitting on her eggs for a week now but I have noticed some strange behaviours. There are two other broody hens that I put eggs under at the same time and they are doing really well. They get off the eggs twice a day and eat and drink, the other...
  3. KikiDeAnime

    Need Advice (Incubator + Broody Hen)

    I'm just about ready to buy some hatching eggs from a local lady who is selling me them. I just finished my incubator. I need some advice. It looks like our hen went broody on Tuesday so it was the day before I came back from my church's college group summer trip on Wednesday. I was thinking...
  4. Silly Sally and the Quail

    Silly Sally and the Quail

    I have been raising poultry for 48+ years and this has become a first for me... I have a large chicken run with 2 coops in it the smaller red coop is for my older girls who are set in their ways and will only go into the Cluckingham palace to sleep and lay their eggs, the other girls go in to a...
  5. T

    Long time to be Broody or other issue? Help please

    We have a hen that is a year and a half old. For the last few months she has been what some describe as broody and not laying consistently. If she lays an egg it's either shell-less or soft and even less often a good shell. She is missing the feathers on her belly, with the obvious irritation...
  6. ChickenMamaSarah

    Hen is pecking the chicks as they pip through the eggs!!! What do I do?

    Please help! Today is day 19 and 4 of my eggs have started to hatch. The first pip was at about 8 this morning and so far they have only widened the holes a little. We have a Nest cam in my broody box and I’m noticing her standing up a bunch and checking out/moving the eggs. But now she’s...
  7. N

    Broody Hen - Pale Waddles

    Hello, About two weeks ago I noticed my golden laced Wyandotte went broody. She is not hatching any chicks. Every day I force her out of the nesting box to eat, drink and range for a few hours by locking her out. Today I noticed her wattles are turning light pink. She stopped plucking her...
  8. C

    Questions about raising chicks with mama hen

    i have some questions. I’ve had a Brahma go broody on me. I’ve tried to break her for over a week without any success. So, I’m thinking about giving in and letting her hatch out some fertilized eggs (I do not have a rooster and I can’t per landlord). However, I would like her to raise the...
  9. PatinOxford

    Broody (?) hen mystery

    I have a Buff Orpington hen, about 15-16 months old, who has (I think) gone all broody. She sits in the straw in the coop, fluffs herself up, gives out the evil eye when we look at her or touch her, and in general refuses to join the party. We have no rooster. We collect all eggs daily. She is...
  10. chickengirl778

    Broody Chicken help!

    Hello all! I have a broody Ameraucana who REFUSES to leave the nest whatsoever. I am leaving on a trip in a week and I can't have her broody while we're gone because she hardly eats AT ALL and I am very worried about that! It is also hot so she could overheat and I need to break her right away...
  11. |Aphrodite|

    Hen killing hatching chicks

    My hen’s chicks were due yesterday, and two of my favorite hen’s eggs had hatched before the others. Instead of caring for them, she had thrown them out (one fully hatched and one was just about to come out of the shell) I’m scared for her last 4 eggs. Does anyone know why she might be doing...
  12. The_Cat

    Broody, Isolated Hen

    So, I have 4 chickens about 2 years old: 2 Americaunas, an Australorp, and a Buff Orpington. The Australorp has been broody for close to 3 weeks now, and I have been unable to break her of the habit. I've locked her out of the nesting boxes, and I set up a new nesting box for the other chickens...
  13. TattoedChickenLady

    To take the eggs, or not to take the eggs? That is the question.

    I have 4 light brahma chickens that are a little over a year old now. 3 hens and Cluck Norris the rooster. They lay quite a few eggs few week and I have been told that they aren’t a very broody breed. I have a row of laying boxes and all but one are completely empty. Someone has made a nest in...
  14. jlopez12

    Giving fertile eggs to a two week broody hen

    Hello, I have a black Australorp who is very broody and has been for almost two weeks now. I want raise chicks but want to experience a mother hen raising her young. I just received a late order of fertilized eggs in the mail and I’m just questioning now if I should give them to her or not...
  15. goldeaglenest

    Incubating goose eggs under a chicken??

    im not even sure if I have a broody hen, so I’m working on seeing if I do, but let’s say I do. I understand the process but I live in Maine and it’s still frosty out here! We had one bird not make it back to the coop one night and she froze! So sad! So I’m not sure about separating the broody...
  16. |Aphrodite|

    Is my chicken broody or not?

    I have a wonderful chicken named Aphrodite, and I was hoping that she was broody. I saw her in one of the nesting boxes two nights ago, while I as feeding the horses, and I got really excited but then in the morning she was up with the rest of the flock. She didn’t get back in the nesting box...
  17. Hheysunshine

    Blood spots in eggs.

    i have 9 hens and 1 rooster. A variety of breeds buff Orphington speckled Sussex and cinnamon queens. My one buff Orphington has been very broody. I am not sure if the new were rooster is even doing his job but what would cause blood spots in eggs? Does this mean I am getting fertile eggs...
  18. |Aphrodite|

    Is the size of a nesting nox important?

    My dad was remaking my chickens a coop and he made the nesting boxes 2 feet long and 1 foot wide, but he made the top about 2 feet tall. He said that size didn’t matter but I’m pretty sure it matters, he also said it doesn’t matter if it’s dark for them to go broody, so he left the front open...
  19. St1ckyBum

    Adding Keets to Broody Hen with Chicks...?

    Hello all! I have a rather odd question. I have a broody hen who is due March 9th with 8 chicks. I am planning on adding 3 guinea hens to our flock which are available March 21st. Do you think I could slip these under the momma hen with the then-to-be 2-week old chicks? I am not sure if momma...
  20. Liz Birdlover

    No Broodiness in 3 yrs.

    So I've read up on it, have waited for it to happen, but in 3 yrs. I have not seen any signs of my hens going broody...just wondering what's up with that. Even not collecting eggs for a few days, letting them accumulate to about 10 eggs, hasn't inspired anyone to become broody. Any ideas?
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