any way you can make your chicken go broody?

[kasey08]

or do you just have to wait on her?

 

[tammyd57]

You have Silkies? You probably won't have long to wait. Then it will be a question of how to break them from being broody all the time.

I made my hen go broody by building an incubator and starting to hatch her eggs myself. Halfway through the second batch she decided to glue herself to a pile of eggs and now she won't even get up to eat or drink.

 

[kasey08]

lol ok well it will make me happy

atleast untill its like no more no more! umm do chickens just lay one egg then hatch it or do they lay one the next day also?

 

[crazyaboutchickens]

chickens lay an egg a day until their instincts tell them its enough .

 

[goldenchic]

if you want broody get some partridge bantams mine are on the second brood & their only ten months last brood lasted three weeks didnt think it was ever going to break, this brood seems to heading the same way, i have to physically move them out of the coop into the run or they would happily sit & brood all day,i have 2 hens when daisy went broody we would keep the coop door shut, but my second hen hetty would jump at it she was trying to tell us she wanted to lay so we would let her in & sure enough she would lay, we had to keep daisy out or she would push hetty off the egg & sit on it LOL. but they are both locked out the coop now, as hetty was jumping at the door so we let her in thinking she was gonna lay but she gone broody now, after 2 hours she was still just sat their, so shes also ban from the coop now LOL

 

[La_TomboyGirl]

My 2 year old Black Austrolorp hen has been broody for one week now. It may be a coincinence, but it started when I moved some chicks from the brooder & into an enclosure inside the big pen. They could see them & hear them, but not get to them for safety. Well, right after that, she started making this odd clucking that she'd never done before. Like a deep calm "cluck..cluck..cluck." while walking around. She started pulling feathers out of her breast & left them in the nesting box, & would sit on the wooden egg for periods, so it'd be warm, but not all day or anything. I still collected eggs as usual. Well, I SWEAR, the VERY DAY I let the chicks out into the main enclosure, she just couldn't take it anymore & started setting on the 4 eggs that were in the nest! I mean, all day & night, swollen & puffed & growling...She's so docile usually. When I make her get up once a day, she walks around still all puffed out, making the deep cluck the whole time. She's totally bald on her underparts. I've got her some hatching eggs coming (hopefully)today, because many of our eggs don't look to be fertile judging by the tips I've read on here. And I'd just bought some silkies this year thinking I'd never get a broody unless I did, & they were the peeps she was doting on. Anyway, maybe that could work for someone else...Not sure cuz this is my first broody.

 

[kasey08]

i have silkies. i also have babies (about 7-8 weeks)all kinds TSC got me hooked then i just had to have hens hehe anyways i put out side during the day in a pen should i put the pen in the chicken run? its already bare and ive just had the silkies for a week so i just put the babies on the grass beside them think thats fine? i'm only keeping the females so i'm trying to make sure which is which

 

[kasey08]

i also left the eggs today (added one in each spot so they would lay in different spots) so maybe that will get them to. how many eggs can you add under them?once they do go broody and since i have bantams can i add bigger eggs?

 

[gritsar]

Just MHO, but I wouldn't leave real eggs. Too much of a chance that they will get broken, the chickens will discover that they are tasty and then you end up with egg eaters which is next to impossible to stop.
Better to use golfballs or really any egg shaped item. If a hen decides to get seriously broody, she's gonna be broody whether there's something in the nest or not.
There's really no reliable way to cause a hen to go broody, but you have silkies so it's only a matter of time.