Nicky S
Songster
Our white Austra, Clover, has been in the nesting box all morning. She's pancaked down, and when I tried to stroke her she stuck her tail up and made a very strange trilling noise which I interpreted as BACK OFF! She's super friendly usually, though I normally leave them alone when they are in the nesting box. She did it again a couple of hours later. Could she be broody? When would I know for sure? We just had a couple of warm days after bitter cold, but there's a lot more cold to come (we are in southern CT). I was checking on her as yesterday we had an egg with no shell on it at all, so I've been keeping a closer eye on the girls to see if anything is up. If she is broody I have so many questions - we were planning on getting more chicks in the spring, but if she wants to sit I don't have the heart to stop her. Dad would be a Buff Brahma so I have no clue what the outcome would be . Many thanks!