Thankfully broodies can't tell time. Wouldn't it be funny if they mentally thought "Day 21! I'm outta here! Tata eggs!" Lol. On a serious note, my broodies have sat well beyond 21 days when it took me some time to track down eggs. Try not to have her sit there too long while not productive though. Your broody will be cutting back on food and water intake because she wont want to leave the nest. Although they are made to handle that, it isn't good for them to go too long.
I feed the goats before letting the chickens out to free range and they can hear me feeding the goats and I can hear them going nuts inside the henhouse from hearing me so that when I arrive to open the door they just pour out the front door with all the gawwwk flapping of wings and a full on chicken riot. They are very keen on decoding and taking meaning from hearing-wise information. I even have a blind chicken probably 90% blind or worse and has made it to four months old simply by following the others it's age and mimics them by sound alone. Chicken's use of sound is impressive.
They are! They ARE! That is what I refer to them as too. (Great minds...Every time I look at my Buff Orpingtons (which my son affectionately labeled as "bird dogs"), I can't help thinking they're the Golden Retriever of chickendom.
When I started my flock and moved them into their coop, I had one Buff who would greet me each morning when I came out to have my cup of coffee. She'd jump up on my leg and settle in and talk to me the whole time. Now that she's fully grown, she comes all the way up my stairs in the morning to my front door and knocks to wake me up to come out.
This is her at 8 weeks.
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