California - Northern

[debs_flock]

Quote: I've done that too, the ones that look cold, wet & dead get the hairdryer treatment. It seems to speed things along a little.

 

[ronott1]

So Beakface was out with the GP for her stretch water and food and she went back to the nest in the coop, not the Broody area. I screwed up I guess letting her all the way out but do I just stick her back in the Broody pen or do I wait till tonight?? Help!

My SG Dorking Mimi stopped being Broody when I moved her last Fall. This Spring she hatched out a chick but I did not move her. Each day I had to pick out the other hens eggs in her nest.

Beakface may have been broken already. If she is sitting on eggs in the GP nest, wait until tonight and see how it goes.

Good Luck!

 

[liz9910]

Last night I found 3 tiny Serama eggs in one of my succulent planters, so cute. Fried them up for my daughter.

 

[tommysgirl]

My SG Dorking Mimi stopped being Broody when I moved her last Fall. This Spring she hatched out a chick but I did not move her. Each day I had to pick out the other hens eggs in her nest.

Beakface may have been broken already. If she is sitting on eggs in the GP nest, wait until tonight and see how it goes.

Good Luck!

Thanks! I will leave her be until tonight then try again.

 

[tommysgirl]

Last night I found 3 tiny Serama eggs in one of my succulent planters, so cute. Fried them up for my daughter.

Tea party eggs

 

[chiqita]

Is she sitting in the old nest? If so she just does not recognise the new nest as home.

Thanks!  I will leave her be until tonight then try again.

 

[tommysgirl]

Is she sitting in the old nest? If so she just does not recognise the new nest as home.

Yes she is and that makes sense. Anything I can do to make it more homey for her? Hmmmm ...should I decorate the new place with some ...dirty hay perhaps???

Seriously though is there anything I can do besides putting her back and not letting her back out unless she really breaks? she is holding fast at this point.

 

[liz9910]

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I tried to move my broody when she was sitting in the nest box to another area after getting her some eggs to sit on. She wouldn't sit on them, so I put them under her where she was. The next day, I moved her and the eggs to the other area and she stayed there. Whew!

 

[MossyoakLane]

I am thinking, since I have a squater, that I should offer some oyster shell? I will offer it free choice, since we have 2 16 weekers in with the other girls who are at POL.

Everyone is on Freedom Starter. I am not planning on switching to a layer for a few months.

 

[ronott1]

I am thinking, since I have a squater, that I should offer some oyster shell? I will offer it free choice, since we have 2 16 weekers in with the other girls who are at POL.

Everyone is on Freedom Starter. I am not planning on switching to a layer for a few months.

Yes, give them free choice calcium. The calcium will help with laying too--it helps them have the contractions to lay the egg as well as building the shell.