That was the best way I can put my post. I have a chicken that went broody. We do not have a mature rooster, so I removed her little clutch and my fake egg from the box, but she continues to sit.
I live in California, so I have a very open area for the chickens. I have their nesting boxes on the outside, raised off the ground. The problem is I have a fox that has taken about 7 chickens from me over the past 2.5 months. We have tried trapping the fox, set up a snare, everything; but the fox lives on. At night I lock up everyone in the coop so I know they are safe. We have 3 month old chickens who I still have to move to the coop, and with the broody in the box they have taken up residence next to her. I shift her in every night, but she is not happy with me, and the first thing she does in the morning is return to her box.
Does anyone have advice? Or am I just shifting her every night for the next whatever number of days until she has decided she is done?
I live in California, so I have a very open area for the chickens. I have their nesting boxes on the outside, raised off the ground. The problem is I have a fox that has taken about 7 chickens from me over the past 2.5 months. We have tried trapping the fox, set up a snare, everything; but the fox lives on. At night I lock up everyone in the coop so I know they are safe. We have 3 month old chickens who I still have to move to the coop, and with the broody in the box they have taken up residence next to her. I shift her in every night, but she is not happy with me, and the first thing she does in the morning is return to her box.
Does anyone have advice? Or am I just shifting her every night for the next whatever number of days until she has decided she is done?