Broody Hen Thread!

[Lady of McCamley]

One more stupid question.How long after the hatching chicks are dry?

It's just a few hours until dry, but it takes them about 24 to 48 hours to get steady on their legs. Hatching is exhausting.

Lady of McCamley

 

[elsfieldchickens]

my broody pekin and her chicks

 

[luvmypets]

Our new additions

 

[luvmypets]

 

[sonderah]

Our new additions

So cute!!!!!!
I want wittle duckies!!!!!!!

 

[luvmypets]

my favorite is the first one! Also we have another internal pip on a silkie egg!

 

[griggy]

We are on Day 21 if you go by 24 hour periods and Day 22 if you go by actual days. Nothing is going on. My broody did not leave her nest yesterday to eat or drink, but when I lifted her I just saw eggs. Couldn't see any pips.

 

[Alaskan]

We are on Day 21 if you go by 24 hour periods and Day 22 if you go by actual days. Nothing is going on. My broody did not leave her nest yesterday to eat or drink, but when I lifted her I just saw eggs. Couldn't see any pips.

I dunno...... I would try to sneak out eggs and candle.... But that us just me.



Right now I am considering playing musical chickens.

I have a broody with 13 chicks, about a month old.... I have a very large chicken complex... I am wondering if I could move her with her chicks over to the adult section..... But I am not sure how I would move them, and how I would set up a place for them to sleep..etc. etc.

Now I wish I had kept them all with a dog crate as their nest....would have made everything easier.

Also, they still need a heat lamp since we are still often dropping to 40.

 

[fisherlady]

I dunno...... I would try to sneak out eggs and candle.... But that us just me.



Right now I am considering playing musical chickens.

I have a broody with 13 chicks, about a month old.... I have a very large chicken complex... I am wondering if I could move her with her chicks over to the adult section..... But I am not sure how I would move them, and how I would set up a place for them to sleep..etc. etc.

Now I wish I had kept them all with a dog crate as their nest....would have made everything easier.

Also, they still need a heat lamp since we are still often dropping to 40.

You can use a frame with chicken wire stapled on it in a corner to create a 'wall' which the broody can nest behind on the floor. I just made our 'broody corner' a couple of feet deep by about 1.5 ft wide, I hung a pillow case over it to floor level for the first few nights to allow the hen a modified sense of privacy while she gets used to being back in the main coop. the way we set it up we left the end of the broody area open, so basically the wire frame partition just helps create a 3 sided area. Other birds do go in and out of it during the day, but by evening all of the other birds head up to the roosts and the broody heads into her corner with the chicks. Find if you have a corner your can partition off with a similar frame set up and hopefully you can put a ceramic heat lamp or red heat lamp over the area to help the youngsters who mama isn't covering.

 

[jammyjammy2112]

my silkie has gone broody and is sitting on 5 of her own eggs 20 more days to go