Broody or Bust: Can You Handle a Sitting Hen?

[Bruthabuz]

I just released a broody Easter Egger today after 4 days of incarceration. It seems to have worked. I haven't seen her on the nest at all today.
Keeping my fingers crossed because the only jail I have is filled again!

BTW, I got 9 correct (but I had to make my best guess on a couple of them).

 

[McChooky]

On day 2 I moved my broody hen because I was afraid the other hens would break her eggs.(I gave her 8) When she got up to eat and poop I unscrewed the nest box from the wall and moved it with the eggs to the other side of the divided coop where I raise the pullets. By the time I'd added water and feeder for her she was back so I got her and put her on the nest but she got off.She squawked a couple minutes but settled down after I darkened the room with a tarp.That was a couple days ago and she's still sitting on them

 

[McChooky]

Funny timing! One of my hens is broody now. This is her first time so I wasn’t sure how she would behave. But she is just as sweet as all my others!! I’m getting pretty confused why everyone says their broodies are so mean

We never knew when dads hens went broody.They liked to surprise us