broody hen

  1. Winchikn

    Broody Hen with Roundworm

    Hi, I have a hen who has been on a nest for 23 days now - we think the eggs are not viable. I have chicks on order to pick up and give her on July 29 (5 days from now). Broody has had watery poops and only been leaving the nest every couple of days and not been eating much (though still keen...
  2. M

    Help design broody hen coop & run

    Hi! I need inspiration/pictures to build a coop & run for my broody hens and baby chicks. We have serious hawks and free range our girls on a half acre. Our coop is high off the ground and not ideal for the babies because it can get trafficky and busy in there. Has anyone built anything like...
  3. faithsbrood

    My mother hen has abandoned her chick at only a little over two weeks old. What can I do?

    Up until the last few days my hen has been acting a little more aloof with her chick as it’s growing more independent, but today she set the mark by leaving the nursery coop and roosting with all the adult chickens, (which the chick cannot get to because it is up a ladder) and left it by itself...
  4. K

    Emergency! Should I assist or leave alone?

    I had 10 eggs under a broody hen. She crushed 3 fertilized and 2 non fertilized along the way, so 5 remained. I let her go to day 25 and no signs of pipping so I decided to throw in the towel. We removed all the eggs and my daughter wanted to investigate them, only to crack one and find that...
  5. MOyoChicks

    Hen left eggs at day 16. Will she mother them?

    I have a five-year-old Buff Orpington that has hatched and raised several broods in past years. This year, I started her sitting on a clutch 12-14 days AFTER she started showing signs of being broody. (I won't be vacationing this time of year again!) She sat fine for 15-16 days. And then started...
  6. slaychul

    Broody hen

    Hey everyone, I've lurked the site A LOT over the last year of having chickens for the first time. Now I have a question that I have not found the answer for yet. I've got two laying girls (silver phoenix) and just got two chicks (mystic onyx) two weeks ago. Now one of my girls has gone broody...
  7. K

    Top hen is suddenly skittish?

    Hey! New to BYC, not really sure how to work this but I’m figuring it out! My top hen is suddenly super skittish and she’s running from the other chickens (they’re not doing anything to her). She’s a little Serama, we have a Serama rooster and before she started acting like this she would even...
  8. PrettyBirdRocky

    Woohoo! Mama is going broody again! Yay!

    Yay!! Exciting news! Mama is starting to go broody again! Yay! She has hatched two clutches. And after the second one, she hasn't gone broody since last Feb/March. I have an incubator full set to hatch this Sunday, and planned on gathering eggs this week to put in more. So, if she's gonna...
  9. Katieskerlong

    Broody silkies sharing nest

    A few weeks ago one of my silkie hens went broody so I gave her a couple eggs and left her to it. After a day or two she abandoned the nest and went back to ranging with the rest of the flock. I noticed about a day or so later and went to collect the eggs I gave her just to find that another...
  10. R

    Have i got a broody silkie?

    Guys what should i do she has laid 5 eggs and is now in the nest sitting on the eggs. Its an old oil drum cut open that she has laid in is this enough room for her? She was lifting straw with her beak all morning and now has went in and sat on her 5 eggs i really want baby silkies😭
  11. H

    My year old silkie hen has been broody for 5-6 weeks

    As the title suggests, my silkie has been broody for around five weeks, maybe more, I’ve lost track of time in the midst of my war against nature. I have tried everything, I’ve taken her out of the coop every morning for three weeks and locked her out, as a result she hopped up onto the coop...
  12. Muser

    Broody hen - when will she start laying again?

    I have a currently Brooding Orpington x Brahma hen. It's her first time looking after chicks and she's done an amazing job. The chicks are 8 weeks old and she's still protecting them/sitting over them in the coop (there's 7 of them and they can't all fit under her, despite trying!) but she's...
  13. Emrosenagel

    Is this egg dead?

    Hello! This little guy was moving a few days ago and I went to do one last check (day 18) and he’s not looking too alive anymore. I can’t see any veins, only bloody looking spots; no movement (today, the other three eggs all moved into position and he hasn’t). Now I’m noticing the air sac is...
  14. Emrosenagel

    Is this egg dead?

    Hello! This little guy was moving a few days ago and I went to do one last check (day 18) and he’s not looking too alive anymore. I can’t see any veins, only bloody looking spots; no movement (today, the other three eggs all moved into position and he hasn’t). Now I’m noticing the air sac is...
  15. PrettyBirdRocky

    Goldie gets to try to hatch

    Just a journal of how -Goldie- our monthly broody 6 day jailer, gets to try hatching her own eggs. We only gave her four. And maybe it will help her demeanor. We are at wits end with her so hubby thought we could try. Put them under her today (was waiting for another egg from Beardie, as her...
  16. Emrosenagel

    Broody hen stopped eating

    Hello! I have a Cochin that went broody 4 weeks ago, give or take. I tried my hardest to break it, but no matter what I did she stayed vigilant. I decided to let her ride it out and hope she would come out of it by herself. Since the start, she ate very well and drank regularly, with normal...
  17. S

    HI!!! I bought my first coop, last winter, and purchased my first chickens this spring. I have a pair each, of silkie bantams, and American Bresse.

    I was looking for info on my broody silkie hen. Came across this site. So much good information. Thank you soo much. I started following the advice today....by putting a baggie of frozen vegies in the nest she lays in. It did NOT deter her. She was sitting halfway out, of the nest. Now...
  18. Emrosenagel

    Broody hen panting, hot crop

    Hello! I have a very stubborn broody hen. She went broody a little over a week ago and is not responding to any breaking techniques. I have her in a cage in the AC with no bedding; she just sits on the bottom, brooding. I put ice under her, she just melted it. A few days ago she started...
  19. G

    Broody, Bullied, or Both?

    One of my hens, Plum, has been broody on and off for the past few months. Each time I've taken her off the nest and taken all the eggs away and that has "broken" the broodiness for a few weeks. My other hen, Peach, was recently broody for the first time a few weeks ago, but she appeared to have...
  20. Basghettiii

    Hen acting broody without eggs or babies

    My buff Orpington named Biscuit is pulling out her belly and breast feathers. She was sitting on eggs not that long ago, but we took her off of them and she hasn’t tried to start a brood since. However, she still growls and puffs up at my other chickens (and sometimes me) when they approach her...
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