Broody sebright

[loulusea]

I'm a new chicken mama. I have a broody silver sebright. We are thinking of putting a fertilized egg under her.

How do I know if she's broody enough to put an egg under? Also, are sebrights typically good moms? I'm a little surprised that she's gone broody given what I found online. I've read that sebrights typically don't go broody.

And if you have any experience or would like to share your experience with broody hens I'd love to hear it because I don't really know what to ask.

 

[Ecarroll]

I'm a new chicken mama. I have a broody silver sebright. We are thinking of putting a fertilized egg under her.

How do I know if she's broody enough to put an egg under? Also, are sebrights typically good moms? I'm a little surprised that she's gone broody given what I found online. I've read that sebrights typically don't go broody.

And if you have any experience or would like to share your experience with broody hens I'd love to hear it because I don't really know what to ask.

I’m not experienced with Brodie’s and I don’t have any answers to your other questions, but please don’t put just one egg under her, IF it does hatch it will be lonely.

 

[SilverBirds]

If she has been sitting consistently for about 3-4 days it should be safe to give her an egg or eggs. Is she brooding in the coop or in her own space?

 

[SilverBirds]

I’m not experienced with Brodie’s and I don’t have any answers to your other questions, but please don’t put just one egg under her, IF it does hatch it will be lonely.

A single chick will not be lonely if it's being raised with the mother. Mama will teach it how to be a chicken and she will eventually integrate it into the flock.

 

[loulusea]

If she has been sitting consistently for about 3-4 days it should be safe to give her an egg or eggs. Is she brooding in the coop or in her own space?

She's brooding in a nesting spot outside of the coop ... Was thinking it wouldn't be safe there

 

[SilverBirds]

She's brooding in a nesting spot outside of the coop ... Was thinking it wouldn't be safe there

I would try and move her to a safer location if you can. It's easiest to try and move a broody at night and hope she stays there in the morning. There is always a chance you accidentally break her, so if possible, you can try securing the nest site she has chosen. \

Do you plan on giving her standard sized or bantam eggs?

 

[aart]

She's brooding in a nesting spot outside of the coop ... Was thinking it wouldn't be safe there

No, it probably wouldn't.

Is she on nest most the day and all night?
When you pull her out of nest and put her on the ground, does she flatten right back out into a fluffy screeching pancake?
Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) sound on her way back to the nest?

If so, then she is probably broody and you'll have to decide how to manage it.

 

[loulusea]

No, it probably wouldn't.

Is she on nest most the day and all night?
When you pull her out of nest and put her on the ground, does she flatten right back out into a fluffy screeching pancake?
Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) sound on her way back to the nest?

If so, then she is probably broody and you'll have to decide how to manage it.

Yes! We moved her to the nesting box inside the coop last night and we go out there this morning and she's puffed up like a pancake when we go to try and touch her and she was still in the nesting box.

 

[loulusea]

I would try and move her to a safer location if you can. It's easiest to try and move a broody at night and hope she stays there in the morning. There is always a chance you accidentally break her, so if possible, you can try securing the nest site she has chosen. \

Do you plan on giving her standard sized or bantam eggs?

Oh that's a good question I was initially wanting to give her a bantam egg but I don't know of anyone who has fertilized bantam eggs near me so I was thinking of just giving her a normal size egg. Is that okay?

 

[SilverBirds]

Oh that's a good question I was initially wanting to give her a bantam egg but I don't know of anyone who has fertilized bantam eggs near me so I was thinking of just giving her a normal size egg. Is that okay?

Yes, that will be fine. My Seramas were able to comfortably cover about 2 large eggs. Sebrights are a bit bigger than Seramas so she should have no trouble at all covering one standard egg.