breaking broody story (weird?? anyone else have this?)

[raimnel]

ok so long story short, silkie, broody, in a box in my basment, sat on eggs, egg piped, chick peeped, hen slammed egg with her beak like 2-3 times HARD, chick bleeding, I took eggs out and put them in the 'bator with the other eggs (same hatch date), all eggs hatched including the one she tried killing.

. NOW I have a broody silkie that I put outside and she went to the coop and sat in a nest. she's been in there 2 days so we hung her

In a cage people in a cage. so this is what it looks like in my coop...... open the door and to ur right is our roosting poles and from the 2nd to the top pole near the middle of it is hanging this wire cage with the silkie and her food/water. I go to close up the coop after dark and 11 of my 14 chickens (that are ALWAYS on the top 2 poles) are all squished on the left sides of the 4 poles ???? 1 is in the nest and then the silkie who is in the brooderbreaker box. Yes I count my chickens. It's a good thing to cause my favorite hen was no where to be found in the coop. I search high and low for he, walk r hole yard........ only to find her hideing in plain open sight ???? all squished as flat as she could get in the loose grass around our property. I checked her over and have no clue why she didn't get to the coop. was she to afraid of the cage in there? I am not knowing! anyways she is fine. but still confused as to WHY they were afraid of the cage and why she didn't make it in the coop??

see what I mean, to weird!

Thanks for reading

 

[WriterofWords]

Well if you walked into your bedroom and one of your friends was hanging from the ceiling in a strange box would you be worried?

 

[FabulousMandy]

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LOL that's funny!

 

[NoseyChickens]

WriterofWords you crack me up!!!

 

[Young Sauterelle]

I had this same problem when I was breaking my sussex, Aunt Bee, who went broody. Her coopmate, a BO named Clara, was horrified by the cage and would have nothing to do with it, including changing where she roosted at night so she could be as far away from poor Bee as possible. Luckily, it only took 40 hours in the cage, and Aunt Bee was back to normal, whistling for treats and ranging with Clara during the day, spending almost no time on the nests. Yesterday, day 8 after going broody and day 5 out of the cage, she laid an egg much to my delight, with a second egg laid this morning. The girls are back to roosting side by side, with that mean cage in the garage out of sight, out of mind.

 

[raimnel]

yep that is what I'm talking about. I just didn't think about it being any problem.

and writer that is too funny

 

[MamaJohnson]

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