broody help

  1. Wonderling

    Helping Broody Hen?

    I've got two broody hens, one went into mama mode once the eggs started to hatch and the other is all about the eggs and doesn't care about the chicks. I have moved Coco (the mama hen) and chicks into a separate section of the coop so they can be together. Gucci the other hen is still on the...
    • Wonderling
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  2. |Aphrodite|

    Scared hen out of broodyness??

    So my welsummer hen had been sitting for about 4-5 days, but she wasn't eating or drinking, so I took her off the nest and plopped her on the floor. After a couple of minutes I realized her eggs were getting a bit chili, and she was still happily on the ground. I tried to place her back on the...
  3. Smuvers Farm

    Mouse in Brooder Coop

    DH went to do a last check in on our emo chick, Xena, tonight and said their was a little mouse that scurried across the floor, fairly close to our girl. Now, I'm freaked out. She is the only one in the BHC (Brooder Hospital Coop). It's pretty small with only 2 nests and no roost bars, plus...
  4. S

    Please, help me... trying get broody hen to adopt chicks

    Hi, my name is Sarah and I'm a new member (long time BYC reader/researcher, first time question). Yesterday, I received day old chicks in the mail for a broody buff orpington named Buffy. Buffy has been broody for over 3 weeks and 3 days ago I successfully moved her to the broody box. She...
    • Sarah_2017
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    • adopt adopting adoption broody help broody hen chick chick help introducing
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  5. JavelinaFarms

    Duck Eggs Under Broody Hen

    Hey all, have been having a lot of broody hens and have hatched several successful clutches. We decided to try our hand at hatching ducklings and are having a lot of trouble. On the 1st clutch of ducklings, only 1 hatched and it died about 24 hours later. We thought that maybe the duckling...
    • JavelinaFarms
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    • broody help broody hen broody hen help duckling duckling under hen ducklings dying ducks being raised by hen hatch problems hatching ducks hatching eggs
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  6. ChickonLand

    Two Broody Hens

    I have two broody hens. One Barred Rock and one Partridge Rock. In May the BR went broody and I gave her five chicks to hatch which are growing up fine. After two weeks she kinda ditched them... that bad momma... and is now broody again. She must have encouraged the other hen to go broody...
  7. IrishGardener

    Broody hen upset with new home

    I have 5 hens and one is broody. Everything I read says to separate her but let her see the others for an easier reintroduction later. I bought one of those little coops with the runs that say for 4-5 chickens (Super small, but I figured ok for 1). I moved her, inside her nest box, last night. I...
  8. Laurel Marie

    Another goes broody days before hatch...

    My head girl has decide to go broody just 6 days before my lowest hens are due! What should I do??? Do I split the eggs between them? We have no rooster in the coop. I bought these eggs for my low, broody girl because the poor things was so dedicated ( she sat for two whole months before I got...
  9. NicolleJean

    Broody Hen NOT Accepting Chick...*Help*

    Hi Everyone, My Blue Sumatra has been broody for give or a take a month. I gave her a fake egg because she was "stealing" my other two hen's eggs. I brought home a chick tonight for her to foster and it did not go so well. The chick is less than a week old (only a few little wing feathers on...
    • NicolleJean
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    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: New Member Introductions
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