Betcha that cools her butt! GAVE HER FOUR CHICKS TONIGHT! - Abandoned

[joebryant]

I "thought" it worked, but she's right back on the nest again and has been resisting me for two days. Today I placed the water and feed in the run and locked her out of the coop until tonight. I just went out to check. She's back on the nest, not on the roost with the splash rooster and the third black hen. Eu weh!

I incubated 24 eggs for a couple of people who wanted some bbs Orpingtons. 18 hatched today, all blue, 12 for one person and six for another. Three more have hatched this evening; maybe I'll stick them under her tonight after the fourth one that's pipped has hatched; maybe four chicks will get her OFF MY CASE. BTW, one chick died, and I don't think one egg's ever going to hatch.
I'll lecha no if it works.

 

[joebryant]

It's 12:40 A.M. now, and Anne and I just went out with the four newly hatched chicks and placed them under her. Hope all goes well. I'm not going to disturb her until late tomorrow afternoon; then I'll remove her and the chicks from the nest and put her down on the floor/wood chips with feed and water for them. Hope it works and she doesn't kill them.

 

[joebryant]

She stayed on the floor with them, and I thought everything was fine. I went out about an hour ago to close everything up, and she was up in the nest again sitting on a wooden, white egg. I brought them in, put them back in the incubator, and a BYC member whom I gave 12 of 22 chicks that hatched is coming for them. I gave the other six to another BYC member, so they're all gone. They have not had any food or water, so they'll be glad to join with and learn from their twelve brothers and sisters.
As for the black hen... I GIVE UP! I do, however, wish her the best of luck hatching that white, wooden egg, even it it takes her a year to do it. She'll get no interference from me. I QUIT!

 

[greathorse]

Give her some real eggs the one's most important to you. I have discovered that to be the only sure fire way to break up a broody. It hasn't missed for me yet.

 

[joebryant]

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I getcher drift. LOL
Underground chickenman's idea of "...I think I might just eat her this time." sounds more and more reasonable.

 

[panner123]

2 is nothing, a few years ago my grand daughter and I had 500 go broody all at the same time. After I posted the story, I man from the Central Valley bought all the chicks. Put a nice little piece of change in her college fund.

 

[joebryant]

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500? I'm trying my best to comprehend that, but the headache won't let the picture focus. OMG!

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

I had great success recently with a small wire dog crate. Put a hardware cloth bottom in it and placed in on top of a small pallet. I have them in a large coop and was able to put the crate/pallet inside the coop. Put in food and water and that is where they resided for 4-5 days. Broke every one of them. It took them about 2 weeks to start laying again, but they had been broody for 2 weeks before I intervened.