Look what I came home to today...
One my my BW pullets has gone broody!
I've never had a broody before! I'm so excited!
Too bad she's penned with my Delaware cockerel, not my BW boy Claude or I would let her sit on her eggs and (hopefully) some would hatch.
I think it's kind of odd that's she's chose to go broody now, in the middle of October when temperatures are the highest they've been all year here in Oakland. It was 92 degrees yesterday! Should I encourage her to try and hatch a clutch, maybe buying some hatching eggs for her, or should I try and break her of it?
She started screaming like crazy when I went to collect the eggs, she did not want to get off of the nest, which by the way isn't in the nesting boxes where she should be, she's taken up nesting under a small table that I put in their run for shade. She wallowed out a shallow hole in the ground and has collected hay and such that's in their run, making a nest. Crazy bird! Why wouldn't she choose to use the nesting box? Anyways, I literally had to roll her off the nest to get her to move, she wouldn't budge. I eventually picked her up and moved her away from her makeshift nest and started to collect the eggs. Well she wasn't having it, she came running back over and tried to hunker back down on the eggs as I was putting them in my basket. I literally had to hold on to her while I collected all the eggs. As soon as I had them all I put her down... and what did she do? Plopped her butt right back down on her nest and started picking at the hay, making cooing noises, as if I had upset her hard work!
Here she is when I pushed her off the nest... not the happiest camper I would assume.
One my my BW pullets has gone broody!
She started screaming like crazy when I went to collect the eggs, she did not want to get off of the nest, which by the way isn't in the nesting boxes where she should be, she's taken up nesting under a small table that I put in their run for shade. She wallowed out a shallow hole in the ground and has collected hay and such that's in their run, making a nest. Crazy bird! Why wouldn't she choose to use the nesting box? Anyways, I literally had to roll her off the nest to get her to move, she wouldn't budge. I eventually picked her up and moved her away from her makeshift nest and started to collect the eggs. Well she wasn't having it, she came running back over and tried to hunker back down on the eggs as I was putting them in my basket. I literally had to hold on to her while I collected all the eggs. As soon as I had them all I put her down... and what did she do? Plopped her butt right back down on her nest and started picking at the hay, making cooing noises, as if I had upset her hard work!
Here she is when I pushed her off the nest... not the happiest camper I would assume.
