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[Chickengirl1304]

shes in her box for the last 2 days and didnt lay yesterday but did today. could she just be laying the last egg today and now she wont lay?

figures my most important egg layer goes broody

 

[ronott1]

she laid an egg today. so she hasnt stopped yet. should i just lock her out of the coop during the day? i just worry if shes still laying she wont have a place to lay it.

If she is still laying eggs, she may not be Completely broody--Hormonally like Kelly said. You might be able to break her by moving the nest box. Once she stops laying eggs it is a done deal though.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

If she is still laying eggs, she may not be Completely broody--Hormonally like Kelly said. You might be able to break her by moving the nest box. Once she stops laying eggs it is a done deal though.

ok should i take the box out?

 

[ronott1]

shes in her box for the last 2 days and didnt lay yesterday but did today. could she just be laying the last egg today and now she wont lay?

figures my most important egg layer goes broody

Yep!

If you wait a week, give her a couple of chicks over night and take them away she will stop being broody. It will still take weeks to get her back laying though. They will sometimes molt too.

 

[ronott1]

ok should i take the box out?

I would try it. It is often the "box" or nest that they become obsessed with.

 

[chrissyr]

Ok, seriously?? WHAT THE THING YOU CANNOT SAY ON FAMILY FRIENDLY WEBSITES SILKIES????

AAARGGGG.. Just spent another 1/2 hr is the downpour rescuing chickens RUNNING fro me in the rain. Danny Boy refused to go in the coop I had to bring him inside. The shy new hens at least ran TO me to get picked up this time. Pick up wet silkie.. carry to coop.. See her shocked and happily suprised it is warm, dry and has food! how exciting!
Pick up the next sopping silkie.... At least my little frizzle showgirl pullet has made friends! she has adopted to 2 new shy ones and was very upset when her friends were warm and dry and came running after me.

It is times like today crawling around in the mud and rain I regret having so much hawk covering in rose bushes,

who says turkeys are the stupid ones??

Oh my gosh! I have an invention for you… Instead of chicken saddles, you should make chicken RAINCOATS! YES! Forget about this chicken thing making any $$ , you could get rich off the raincoats in the Silkie Forums

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it depends on the chickens. If they are sitting ON eggs together happily, you can give them 1 batch of chicks. If you want to give them chicks at different times, I move the one you give chicks into a seperate area. Last year Pumpkins ( RP turkey) decided to co brood with Lucy 1 ( now all chcickens that vaugly look like this are called Lucy by mario, so it gets confusing. I have 4 lucys in the yard right now, including the boy luck, lol) and fairly small icelandic. Pupkins just sat on her AND the eggs. I had to put the eggs in the incubator and give them chicks. They were fine together until I relocated all the icelandics to someone who wanted to breed icelandics. They were sitting on the floor of the coop under a pallet I turned into a roost. No extra room required.

When a more agressive hen broods, I make sure she has her own sleeping place to retreat to. They seem less territorial if they have their own place to retreat to. When the weatehr cooperates, I leave the broodies in the main coop or silkieland, and don't move them unless I want to watch the chicks. Right now roxi is on the porch since her chicks were all dying and I want to keep an eye on them, plus the ground is too wet to sit on chicks in silkieland.

ok, that makes sense. Thank you Shantih

 

[Chickengirl1304]

ok my husband is out there right now with the drill taking out her box and she is very angry, neck feathers spiked out and all lol

 

[chiqita]

shes in her box for the last 2 days and didnt lay yesterday but did today. could she just be laying the last egg today and now she wont lay?   figures my most important egg layer goes broody 

Orphs I'm guessing? Try the dunking mebby? You better get good at it with all those girls!!!

 

[chiqita]

Oh my gosh! I have an invention for you… Instead of chicken saddles, you should make chicken RAINCOATS! YES! Forget about this chicken thing making any $$ , you could get rich off the raincoats in the Silkie Forums   . 

ok, that makes sense. Thank you Shantih 

Where we will really make our bucks is hats for bald quails.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Orphs I'm guessing? Try the dunking mebby? You better get good at it with all those girls!!!

YES my Isabel Cuckoo what is the dunking mebby???