Broody Hen how long? For eggsgalore

[Barnyard Dawg]

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That was good feedback to hear. And, that it took four days. Let us know if she goes back to being broody soon and/or when she lays her first egg (if you are able to tell).

Thanks.

Since my Delaware went though her broody behavior she had a molting where she lost quite a few feathers, she has been eating well and has layed her first egg that I know of, so the technique as far as I am concern works, it was around two weeks.

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

eggsgalore here were the original suggestion from one of my previous post, I used Chirpy's suggestion and had great results.

 

[Jashdon]

We recently had a young hen go broody and we had just had another hen hatch some eggs so we didn't want her to sit on any. We didn't have a wire cage so we just kicked her out of the nesting box whenever were in the vicinity of the coop. I would put her outside of the coop/run in the morning before I left for work and we would block up the nesting boxes at night with buckets so that she couldn't sit in them. After about a week she finally stopped trying and is roaming and eating with the others.