Broody Hen With Big Plans

[lilliesanchicks]

Finally got my bantam game hen cross off her hidden nest. The eggs are unfertile due to the free ranging Silkie Roster who seams to only want to spar with my caged EE/Silkie cross Roster and had taken no intrest in the 2 free range girls who are now both on eggs.

These are the eggs I took her off of



Way to many for her to even cover.
I moved her and put her on some local hatching eggs I found ,she only gets 10 eggs now.

 

[silkiechicken]

LOL, I swear, broodies get big stars in their eyes when the time comes. LOL!

That said, one grab by the roo can fertilize eggs for a few weeks. I'd candle those eggs just in case.

 

[lilliesanchicks]

I candled everyone of them all duds.
I really don't understand what is wrong with that Rooster. The lady I got him from said he came from a breeder in Texas.

 

[PebbleEggs]

We have a broody one who we've shut out of her house where she was nesting. Now she's charging around at the others and trying to fly, and she jumped over a fence and tried to climb up me. I think she's going mad

 

[lilliesanchicks]

We have a broody one who we've shut out of her house where she was nesting. Now she's charging around at the others and trying to fly, and she jumped over a fence and tried to climb up me. I think she's going mad

Sounds like she wants her eggs back.

 

[PebbleEggs]

She doesn't have any eggs, although she sits on other peoples when they're available

 

[Rich386]

Chickens don't care whose eggs they are sitting on or even if they are eggs. They will set anything that resembles an egg like doorknobs or golf balls.

 

[lilliesanchicks]

She doesn't have any eggs, although she sits on other peoples when they're available

To her they are her eggs ,all the eggs are hers

 

[silkiechicken]

Sometimes I find bird sit on air. LOL

But perhaps that rooster was from a breeder in TX that re homed him for a reason. LOL!

By any chance can the silkie rooster see well? Does he need his head poof trimmed? I find that when I had silkies, their poofs got in the way of sane normal chicken behavior.

 

[lilliesanchicks]

Sometimes I find bird sit on air. LOL

But perhaps that rooster was from a breeder in TX that re homed him for a reason. LOL!

By any chance can the silkie rooster see well? Does he need his head poof trimmed? I find that when I had silkies, their poofs got in the way of sane normal chicken behavior.

It is trimmed ,he sees very well. I have some silkie eggs and silkie cross eggs. I am going to hatch and will make a pen for him and some new girls hopefully. Not counting my eggs before they hatch.