broody

  1. raisingthelma

    Broody hen with digestive issues? Please help!

    Hi all, one of my hens was broody (showing all signs - plucked chest feathers, laying in the box all day/overnight, squealing when I tried to pick her up, fluffing up real big, etc.), so I tried breaking her in a crate. It worked, she is no longer broody BUT while she was in the crate, her poop...
  2. raisingthelma

    Broody, Impacted Crop, Egg-bound? Help!

    Hello, I am worried about one of my hens... not sure what is going on with her, but behavior is definitely not "normal." Easter Egger mix hen, 7 months old. Yesterday (1/1/25), she was in the nesting box in the morning as usual. I came into the coop to freshen up water and give them a small...
  3. F

    Are these lice eggs? Shredded wing feathers on broody Silkie hen.

    Hi all, I just want to check with you on the wing feathers of my broody Silkie hen. The ends are getting stripped/broken. I have just inspected her, no feather loss elsewhere. It's summer now where we are, with high temps. I do observe her pretty closely and do not know of any bullying going...
  4. Cdbosse

    Broody hen ends year with first hatch!

    My sweet Ayam Cemani hen decided that December was a great month to become a first time mom. I found her sitting on 5 eggs and within a few more days, she was sitting on a total of 9 eggs! I candled them, thinking I would only find 3-4 to be fertilized. However, all 9 had developing chicks...
  5. M

    My favorite hen is wasting away

    My beloved lone survivor from a dead batch of mailed chicks last spring, Admiral Byrd, went broody in Sept-Oct. I'm a noob so I didn't break her right away and she went on for about a month. Already small, she lost half her body weight and made her chest bald. She's been fine after, but the...
  6. H

    Muscovy drake trying to mate with the broody female duck while it is sitting on the eggs?!!

    Hello, I searched a lot about this problem before deciding to post, and I didn't find anyone talking about it. I have two muscovy drakes and two female muscovy ducks, and I know that is a very low ratio, but I couldn't buy more than two at that time because of the price, and I am planning to buy...
    • Hamudazahabi
    • Thread
    • aggressive broody drake duck egg eggs mate mating muscovy
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Ducks
  7. H

    Rooster sitting on eggs?!!

    Hello, I have one of my chickens who is around 5 years old and it stopped laying, except it rarely does lay an egg. This hen always used to come to other hens who are broody and force them to leave then sits instead of them for a few days then also leaves when it was younger. Anyways, now it's...
  8. M

    Mixed batches & Broody Mamas

    I have two sets of chicks being raised by two different mamas currently in the same small coupe. Set number one is a first time mom with three, 3week old chicks. Set number two is a second time Mom (Betty) with seven, 1 week old chicks. Bette seemed to abandon the rest of her clutch of eggs once...
  9. Muser

    Chicken is a freeloader!

    I don't really mind that she's a freeloader, she's beautiful, but when can I expect her to start laying again? A few factors: She's a Brahma x Buff Orpington. We had her at a few months old in Spring. She laid around 15 eggs and became broody. We let her hatch out chicks late July. After the...
  10. B

    New duck mom, is my Muscovy sick?

    Hello, I’m a new duck mom and new to BYC but I have been reading for a while. We inherited four ducks in April from a neighbor.: 3 Muscoveys, one Indian Runner, all females. At the beginning of August, we went on vacation and our parents didn’t collect any eggs… there were 11 when we got home...
    • ByeFelicia
    • Thread
    • broody muscovy sick duck
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Ducks
  11. M

    Duck panting alone

    Hi! My name is Matin, I'm a first time duck owner. I have 5 ducks with varying ages. I have 3 that I hand raised they are around a year old, and 2 that I got from a friend, I believe they are around 2 years old. I live in Australia so the weather is quite volatile, just to give you an idea of...
  12. Lhynes1478

    New laying hen pacing in and out of coop

    Question. My Blue Andalusian hen (far left in pic) is the first to start laying out of all of my 24wk old hens. She has laid about 4 eggs since Wednesday, but all day she goes just in and out of the coop to the run and then lays down in the nest box and repeats it over and over. She lays her...
  13. Chickendaddy33

    Broody chicken gone crazy

    Hey guys I have a chicken that went broody after another one hatched some chicks. I let her sit on the eggs and she hatched 2 yesterday. Clearly she is a bad mom I’m pretty sure she ate one and let the other die. But now she has gone crazy and attacking me. She was very sweet before she went...
  14. Basghettiii

    New to broody hens and silkie mixes

    My Plymouth Rock hen named Jelly (the one in my profile picture actually) has decided to sit on a couple of my barnyard mix’s eggs. Jelly unfortunately has scoliosis, so I will not be allowing her to hatch out her own eggs, just because I don’t want the deformity to be passed down. I am just...
  15. L

    Broody or depressed?

    This is my first time doing this: introducing chicks to a broody mom. I need advice. I had 4 laying hens, all bantam size. 2 of those hens are silkies and they always stuck next to each other. Almost 5 days ago I had one of my silkie’s pass away due to what I assume was a heart attack when...
  16. S

    Broody/Territorial Hen taking over nesting boxes & attacking new layers

    My 1 year old hen typically goes broody every month. She used to be our most docile hen. Ever since we brought home 8 week old chicks, she’s been very territorial. Now that my then chicks are laying, she has grown increasingly aggressive. Some days she even steals or moves their eggs! She’s...
  17. Emrosenagel

    Mother hen not eating, empty crop

    Hello! My Cochin hatched three eggs a week and three days ago, and for the first four/five days she seemed to be eating well and pooping big, broody-like poops. But then she stopped eating as much, giving everything to the little ones. Her crop is empty most of the day and her poops are less...
  18. crazy_chicken99

    I got hatchery chicks and broody hen that is due in two days! should I put them under her tonight? will she sit on other eggs until they hatch?

    Hey! I have a broody hen that will have chicks in two days (on sunday) but i bouht day old chicks today too (friday) should i introduce them today or tommorow? i really want to hatch the eggs also. And i do not want chicks getting too old. will hen sit on the eggs for another 48 hours? what is...
  19. Muser

    Introducing chicks to flock (hatched under Broody Hen)

    I am looking for some advice on what to expect in the next steps of my flock introductions. It's my first time introducing a broody hen's chicks to the rest of the flock. I have introduced new birds before, but always as pullets, never from chicks. All hens were previously together before I...
  20. Pearlescent

    Broody Turkey hen questions

    I have a broody Turkey who has eggs due to hatch any day now, she’s been sitting for 21+ days, the eggs are hers, and I gave them to her at roughly 5-7 days into incubation. One has internally pipped yesterday, but no pip yet. She’s been a great broody, but I have my worries about her still...
    • Pearlescent
    • Thread
    • broody broody behavior nest nesting behavior turkey turkey hen
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Turkeys
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