Broody Hen Help

[chickens really]

Thanks, I didn't mean to sound harsh... It works for me...

Cheers!

I didn't take it that way - I thought it was great.

And we all have different experiences and what works for one isn't necessarily going to work for someone else.

True.....It could also be timing of the move?......I could not have Broody Hens setting in my nest boxes.....They wanted to hatch out eggs and were driving me nuts......way too many times I broke them from brooding only to have them right back at it about a week or so later....Now happy Mother Hens....


Thanks and Cheers to you!

 

[rebrascora]

If you do move her, make sure she cannot get back to the old nest site as she may well return there and sit on nothing. She is imprinted to that nest location and after you move her, the first few times she gets off for a broody break she will probably head back to it, a little like we find our way to work on autopilot on a morning.
I agree with the others as far as reducing the number of eggs. She will be unable to maintain all of those eggs at the correct temperature to incubate them and as she moves the eggs underneath her, some will get pushed to the outside and get cold whilst others will get pulled under her and warmed up. Some will get too chilled and die but still get rotated under her causing others to get chilled and die. You could be left with few or none that hatch, so thinning them down to 10 of a similar development will give you the best chance of success.

Good luck with the hatch whichever way you decide to do it.

Best wishes

Barbara

 

[elenas farm]

You don't need to see the spider Webb in the eggs, all you need to see at the bottom of the egg is a darker little circle, if is there the egg is fertile. This is the old method that is used in Europe.

 

[elenas farm]

You need to move her in a little cage but big enough to put water and food in it. Also big enough to raise her little chicks for up to a week. Otherwise, the other hens will bother her.
Make the nest only with 3 walls because the first hatched chickens will get out of it in a few days. Or you can only put same straws in the corner of the cage.

 

[elenas farm]

When I find such a nest, I throw out all the eggs, they are too old and will attract snakes.

 

[elenas farm]

To be sure that one is broody check her chest, the chest should be hit and no feathers on it. Hens take one after another, they fool you, they learn the broody sound from others. Even if they lay eggs hey act like they are broody. Watch which of them sleeps in the night on the nest and check the chest to be sure she is broody.

 

[chickens really]

To be sure that one is broody check her chest, the chest should be hit and no feathers on it. Hens take one after another, they fool you, they learn the broody sound from others. Even if they lay eggs hey act like they are broody. Watch which of them sleeps in the night on the nest and check the chest to be sure she is broody.

Not all Broody Hens pull out chest feathers......My one Hen with Chicks never did.....Alice only pulled out a few.....Still Fluffy Hens and have Chicks.......


Cheers!