Broody Hen Thread!

[JacksHomestead]

Yes i was thinking this but not sure how i will do this i have one nesting box because that's what was possible but this makes sense that i will need two!

 

[CHICKENFARMER22]

My hen is broody but she keeps moving nest boxes and breaking eggs. Can anyone help me on what I need to do?

 

[casey197530]

I'd just pull them when I got home, or get someone to come get them over the weekend if I really didn't want chicks, but that's me.  Can you block her off from the roos or the other birds so that she at least won't have fertile eggs?  She probably isn't laying if she's already broody, right?  I have such an insistent Silkie that I'm tempted to give her some #$%@ eggs even though I really have no room for chicks either.

I have a silkie with the same problem she gets up to eat and during and poo but goes right back in we r on week 6 now I might cave and give her some eggs

 

[the poppster]

I finally gave in and gave her a trio of eggs...my little white Silkie hen....she won...didn't want her to starve herself to death..and what's three more...? Good old chicken math at work there...again!!!

 

[the poppster]

My hen is broody but she keeps moving nest boxes and breaking eggs. Can anyone help me on what I need to do?

Isolate her with a few eggs of her own....and give your girls some free choice oyster shell....unless she is a big girl and especially clumsy...the eggs shouldn't get broken.

 

[CanaDawn]

I have a silkie with the same problem she gets up to eat and during and poo but goes right back in we r on week 6 now I might cave and give her some eggs

OH! That's a long time. No, she gets up sooner than that, seems to be up the last two days now (I expect the rather cold weather here finished her resolve) and it seems to me its been about 2 weeks this time, although I should check......yes...Aug 27 I have noted that she is broody, so it may have been a day earlier, but not much more. I think it was three weeks in the summer when it was warm, but I would start trying to break her if it had gone on much longer. 6 wks is a long time.

 

[casey197530]

I've tried breaking her the only way to get her to stop is to give her some eggs and I don't need anymore chicks right now. I do have a friend that is getting ready to hatch some polish frizzles and when she does I am going to give her a few

 

[carousel86]

I gave my hen 3 duck eggs to sit on, that aren't any good. She is very happy about it. You can go to Michael's and buy some wooded eggs for her.

 

[CHICKENFARMER22]

I separated my broody hen into a different pen. She isn't sitting in them right now. Does it take a while?

 

[selenaw]

We had one of our hens go broody and decided to let her go. It's been a game of wait and see. These are our first chickens and have only had them for about a year. Yesterday I noticed we had a new chick, today there are 3. She has a couple more unhatched so I am still watching close.

I was going to separate her from the rest of the chickens but she is keeping everyone in check, including me