Broody Hen or Sick Hen???????????? HELP!

[JordanFamily]

I have never had a broody before so I'm not sure if I am experiancing my first... This week she laid two eggs that were blood streeked when she first decided to start sitting, and now will not get out of her nest... If I get to close she fans her tail out and screeches loudly until I'm out of site again... She just sits in her nest huckered down... She is only sitting on a golf ball, no eggs... I took her off the nest to see if she was ok yesturday and she protested and got right back in the nest and huckered back down again... So Is she broody???? She has been in the nest for 4 days now.... Thanks

 

[aggie9296]

That is a broody! Got one right now myself. Might take the golf ball out. The longer she is in there, the harder it is to break her. Keep taking her out of the nest. May have to put her in another pen for a while. You can serach on here on how to break a broody.

And she probably will peck at you. Don't get your eyeballs too close when you pick her up!

 

[JordanFamily]

Actually I think I can use her to incubate if she is in deed broody... I got a few Sebasotopl eggs and peafowl eggs I can place under her... How long should I give it to make sure she is really broody? Also I would like to move her to a pen so how do I do that and not break her broodiness??? Thanks

 

[scratch'n'peck]

She does sound broody. I have moved a broody hen before by putting the eggs and nesting material in a nest box sized container that could be moved around. Then put her on top of the eggs and placed her in the new pen. She sounds like a pretty determined broody hen.

 

[kano]

She is broody. But if you want to move her, you have to wait a few days (4 to 6) to make her broodiness ""stronger"". When I move a broody , I do that (generally) at the last hour of the afternoon. I place her in the new place, with the eggs already there, and I put a wooden cover in front, and leave her for 24 hrs (more or less.) The place MUST be in total darkness. Then you remove the cover and that is all. (99% of success) .




This is the cover, with a stick.


And here she is , very broody (and furious).

 

[schellie69]

that is a broody if you do mover mover her at night and have the eggs there she should be really broody since she has been on the golf ball for 4 days. I love broody's even if I have had only 1 and am still waiting. Good luck