Are they ALL going to go broody !?

[kinsey228]

I have yet ANOTHER broody.

First my banty Wyandotte went broody, and now my Marans. Should I put her to use and throw some eggs under her or just let her be ? Both of the broodies arearound 7 months old. I thought they had to be older.

 

[crossgirl]

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I bought four banty chicks in April. One turned out to be a rooster, and the other three have gone broody three times. I finally gave up and have let two sit on their eggs. I have three chicks that were born on Christmas day and the rest due on Jan. 5. and now I have a MF d'uccle that has gone AWOL and I suspect she's sitting on a nest under the shed. She shows herself every other day or so and then disappears again. That makes out of a flock of 11, two roosters, four broodys and five good girls who give me no trouble!

I don't know what to do but raise chicks!!

 

[kinsey228]

My other girls, all 16 of them, give me 12-14 eggs a day. I have 4 eggs under my banty right now, and I'm not sure if I am going to put any under my BCM yet.

 

[Tracydr]

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I have several going broody, too. I'm down from a dozen eggs to eight in just the past week. Mostly it's my EEs, they always seem to do everything together.
I keep kicking them out of the nests, don't have the heart to give them cold water dunks although it's really not that cold.

 

[JakRat]

You should put her to use! You can stop nature, but why! Think of the cute babies you will have

. They may also get tired of it in a week and get up.