broody hen advice

  1. Athenaeum

    Advice? How to Keep a Hen Broody

    Okay, so, hi. While I wait to get rid of my MiL's aggressive rooster, Roo, which should be happening tomorrow (he's going to be someone else's problem), I'm kinda taking advantage of him still mating my ladies; he makes pretty babies, even if they don't always have "enough brain cells" for their...
  2. Lucashens

    First time broody hen

    Hi there, We are new to hen keeping and seem to have our first broody hen. She is around 8 months old. I guess I'm just wondering the best way to manage her. She is in the nest nearly all day unless we move her out, she will then eat and drink for a bit but then go back in. She even started body...
  3. Ashcole

    Help broody hen & hatching

    Can someone please help. I have a broody hen who was determined to sit so we let her. I tried to make sure all eggs were from the same day so they’d hatch at the same time I even marked them with an X. I go to check a few days later and found 6 extra eggs. My daughter apparently added a few...
  4. Yorkshire_Hobbit

    Broody hens, nothing is working

    Two of my pekin bantams have gone broody, there is no cockerel so nothing is being fertilised. One of them has been broody for over a month, just after one of my hens died. I have tried "chicken jail", locking them out of the coop, making the coop uncomfortable and placing frozen water bottles...
  5. Backyardhomestead921

    Moving a broody hen...

    So i have a silkie that went broody and i have to move her her out of the weather. It did rain yesterday and don't know if they are gonna grow anymore.. but to be safe i am moving her to a coop where there are no other chickens in there and she will have a big run to be in. And the reason i...
  6. GarufaGirl

    My first flock - and my first 'broody' hen?

    Hi Everyone! I'm a first-time chicken 'mom'. My girls started laying at the first of this month (August) and I appear to have my first broody hen already (a Barred Rock). I don't have a rooster, so there's nothing for her to hatch. Is it okay to just leave her be? Is there anything I should...
  7. Neuroscigirl

    Opinions on a broody hen

    I have three very persistent broody hens and it got me wondering... What does everyone do when they have broody hens? I'm curious to hear people's creative solutions. Do you let them hatch? Give away the babies? Get them chicks to adopt? Try to break them? Not sure what I'm going to do. Had...
  8. S

    Eggs left alone for 12 hours without a broody hen, can they survive?

    Hello everyone! This morning when I went to see my chickens, I found that my broody hen had traversed to the other section of the coop and couldn't go back to her eggs. :( She has her own section in the coop for brooding as she's the smallest of the hens by far (a Silkie) and tends to get...
  9. Pufna

    2 broody hens, 2 different hatch dates, same place?

    I have a broody hen which is hatching her eggs today, and the other which went broody yesterday. I plan to move the one that just went broody to the same place with the one that's hatching today, but I'm not sure if that's good. I also plan to separate them with some sort of fabric so they...
  10. Pufna

    Can incubator hatched chicks be good broody moms?

    I searched around on the Web and can't seem to find a discussion about this. Can hens hatched and raised from incubators make good broody hen moms? A few years ago I had a very bad experience with one broody hen that was an incubator chick, she has broken many eggs before they hatched, and...
  11. The_Chicken_Tender

    Can I put chicks from the store under my broody when her eggs hatch???

    I have a broody and her eggs should hatch in about eleven days (hopefully they are fertilized!) A farm supply store nearby is getting chicks a day before our eggs hatch, and I wanted to get a few new breeds. Can I put the chicks under my hen at night when the other ones start hatching? Would she...
  12. A

    Broody Hen, weird question/situation

    One of our hens turned broody, and although it’s fall we decided to let her lay on them (I’m pregnant and just couldn’t imagine taking her babies, probably the hormones lol). She was in the FOURTH nesting box. I felt under her slightly as not to disturb her too much, and I felt 3 eggs. I don’t...
  13. H

    Picking up chicks tomorrow, Preferred mom just went broody. Too early?

    So I pick up chicks tomorrow. The only hen (a little over one) that has reared a chick *just* went broody. She wasn’t yesterday, but now she’s hissing at me and tucked an egg I have under her. She did a great job rearing the chick (she was 8 months at the time) There are a few other broody...
  14. Harmoni

    Floppy comb

    My recently broody RIR's (day 6 of broodiness) comb has gone floppy. I know that can be a sign of health issues. She also has/had a pretty heavy roundworm load which was not seen until after she went broody. She was treeated with safeguard paste 2 days ago. Should I be overly concerned or is...
  15. SpeckledHen35

    How long to leave eggs under broody, after one has hatched?

    Hello! This is only my second attempt at hatching eggs under a broody hen - with the first attempt resulting in a disappointing 0% hatch rate..! So this time, early early on day 21 I was thrilled to discover a little Old Cotswold Legbar emerging from it's shell. Day 22 now - and nothing...
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