Broody in the winter! UPDATES!

[chicmom]

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Wow, you do get cold winters up there in NY! Wishing you good luck with your broodies! Let me know how it goes, OK? I've only ever had two other broodies. The first broody hen I had at a time when I had no rooster, so no fertile eggs. She was broody in the springtime, a Marans hen. Then, I had a broody LF GLW hen, but she never sat on the same nest! She would go outside once a day to do her business, and then she'd come back inside and sit on different eggs! So we never hatched anything from her.

This broody is very very serious.....So into the basement she will go.....

 

[chicmom]

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Not at all. I clean it out at least once a day, and the pine shavings are pretty deep. If it smelled, I wouldn't keep them in my house.

Thank you! I know I will do the same....I am a freak about stinky smells...The nice thing is that the storage room I brood them in is located in the basement, and it's where the door to go outside is, so I can just clean out the poo and take it right outside. I have 12 month old chicks in a brooder down there, and you never smell a thing.....So I think the broody hen can go down there too....It should be fine.

 

[sonew123]

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Wow, you do get cold winters up there in NY! Wishing you good luck with your broodies! Let me know how it goes, OK? I've only ever had two other broodies. The first broody hen I had at a time when I had no rooster, so no fertile eggs. She was broody in the springtime, a Marans hen. Then, I had a broody LF GLW hen, but she never sat on the same nest! She would go outside once a day to do her business, and then she'd come back inside and sit on different eggs! So we never hatched anything from her.

This broody is very very serious.....So into the basement she will go.....

i'LL KEEP POSTING BACK HERE WITH MY UPDATES IF YOU WANT TO DO THE SAME? ( sorry caps locked) If I had a basement..a huge basement...with great air circulation and such I'd toally do it. I allow most other hens in Spring, Summer, and Fall to hatch eggs. This particular hen went broody last Winter and I gave her eggs 10? She was in with another hen and a very BUSy roo. He would not leave her alone and inturn most of her eggs got broken..I took the last two away from her and eventually she came out of it from being broody Broke my heart as she is my sweetest hen ever!

 

[sonew123]

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Not at all. I clean it out at least once a day, and the pine shavings are pretty deep. If it smelled, I wouldn't keep them in my house.

Thank you! I know I will do the same....I am a freak about stinky smells...The nice thing is that the storage room I brood them in is located in the basement, and it's where the door to go outside is, so I can just clean out the poo and take it right outside. I have 12 month old chicks in a brooder down there, and you never smell a thing.....So I think the broody hen can go down there too....It should be fine.

do you mean 12 weekers?

 

[rungirl]

I just tell the hen, "Silly broody, it's too cold to have babies now. Wait until spring." Then I take the eggs from under her. It's actually kind of nice of her to keep the eggs from freezing in the nestbox before I collect them, so it's all good.

 

[chicmom]

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Thank you! I know I will do the same....I am a freak about stinky smells...The nice thing is that the storage room I brood them in is located in the basement, and it's where the door to go outside is, so I can just clean out the poo and take it right outside. I have 12 month old chicks in a brooder down there, and you never smell a thing.....So I think the broody hen can go down there too....It should be fine.

do you mean 12 weekers?

haha, no I meant 12 chicks that are one month old! haha They're bantams, so they're small.

 

[chicmom]

SONEW123, I would love to keep posting about our broodies! That' would be fun....I'll let you know how "moving the broody" goes tonight...

 

[sonew123]

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Nice...I will move my brooder in her box to another pen with 2 slikie hens in it...It just makes sense when the babies start to hatch as the silkies are gentle and might go broody too..So all 3 can be mother hens together! I can litterally pick this broody hen up and snuggle her and she doesnt make a peep-she's a good girl and I adore her...There's only one bird I don't trust when sitting on eggs normally or due to being broody..and I don't allow her to hatch because of how mean she can be... here's my precious broody momma about 6 weeks ago..just before snow fell

 

[chicmom]

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That's nice to know.....Thanks for sharing!

 

[chicmom]

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Nice...I will move my brooder in her box to another pen with 2 slikie hens in it...It just makes sense when the babies start to hatch as the silkies are gentle and might go broody too..So all 3 can be mother hens together! I can litterally pick this broody hen up and snuggle her and she doesnt make a peep-she's a good girl and I adore her...There's only one bird I don't trust when sitting on eggs normally or due to being broody..and I don't allow her to hatch because of how mean she can be... here's my precious broody momma about 6 weeks ago..just before snow fell https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/25181_cimg5670.jpg

Aww, she's really cute! Here's my little broody hen:

She's the little black frizzle standing at the front of the plastic bin....That's the bin she made her nest in...So I can pick it up and move it with her inside.