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chiqita said:
That made the shark in me chuckle.

There is wild broodieness out there! 3 people this week have needed eggs for there girls. I just raided Mario's eating eggs and braved a pi$$ed Marans for a desperate guy with a demanding mf. I saw bite marks on me hand! And I haven't even told mario he's not getting 139°eggs for dinner!
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I have 3 girls who are broody. One has been sitting on eggs for almost a week now. I gave her all blue eggs so any girls that hatch will be green egg layers. I put colored dots all over the eggs so I would know which ones are hers. She has been a great sitter for the past week until today. I just went out to fill feeders and instead of sitting on her eggs in nest box 1, she was sitting on 1 egg in nest box 3. Her 8 eggs and 1 green egg (from my EE who must have driven her off the nest) were cold. I picked her up and stuffed her back into box 1. Do you think the eggs will be okay? Then I have a tiny black mix pullet who is also broody but she plays musical nest boxes so I'm not giving her eggs yet. She is my most timid bird but now that she is a little broody pancake, I can do anything I want with her. She is brood comatose! Finally, my head hen has decided to join the broody ranks. She is a good sitter and good mama so I will probably give her eggs once I am sure that she will stay in the nest box that she has chosen. Crazy birds! I'm convinced that they have gone broody because I have young chicks in outdoor brooders on my patio. I think that the peeping stimulates the broody hormones. It happens in my flock every year. And of course, this year my incubators are loaded and I don't really need a broody hen!
 
chiqita said:
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I have the one raising chicks, 1 Marans about 2 weeks into a clutch and 2 more Marans that have been broody for a week that I have been trying to break. Now it looks like I have more eggs coming that will likely get here before the Genesis, so I will be giving one of them eggs. I have 9 hens and am only getting 4 eggs a day...the 2 reliable girls from @chickee , the BO, the 4th Marans and the red sexlink (whose shelless egs have actually been pretty good lately..)
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chiqita said:
That made the shark in me chuckle.

There is wild broodieness out there! 3 people this week have needed eggs for there girls. I just raided Mario's eating eggs and braved a pi$$ed Marans for a desperate guy with a demanding mf. I saw bite marks on me hand! And I haven't even told mario he's not getting 139°eggs for dinner!
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Well, I'm not usually so sharky. He only paid $10 for 6 quail so he got a deal. I also suggested that he could hatch his own and that he would get free eggs with a purchase of an incubator from GQF. Then I got in my car and said goodbye to my thought of raising quail. I'm going to stick with chickens, at least for now!
 
PetRock said:
:lau   I have 3 girls who are broody.  One has been sitting on eggs for almost a week now.  I gave her all blue eggs so any girls that hatch will be green egg layers.  I put colored dots all over the eggs so I would know which ones are hers.  She has been a great sitter for the past week until today.  I just went out to fill feeders and instead of sitting on her eggs in nest box 1, she was sitting on 1 egg in nest box 3.  Her 8 eggs and 1 green egg (from my EE who must have driven her off the nest) were cold.  I picked her up and stuffed her back into box 1.  Do you think the eggs will be okay?  Then I have a tiny black mix pullet who is also broody but she plays musical nest boxes so I'm not giving her eggs yet.  She is my most timid bird but now that she is a little broody pancake, I can do anything I want with her.  She is brood comatose!  Finally, my head hen has decided to join the broody ranks.  She is a good sitter and good mama so I will probably give her eggs once I am sure that she will stay in the nest box that she has chosen.  Crazy birds!  I'm convinced that they have gone broody because I have young chicks in outdoor brooders on my patio.  I think that the peeping stimulates the broody hormones.  It happens in my flock every year.  And of course, this year my incubators are loaded and I don't really need a broody hen!
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I had to take away the other feed buckets out of silkie land because the broodies were trying to go down and sit in them in the mornings. Not only do they insist in sitting in feed buckets they insist in sitting on the wrong ones!

They should be ok as long as they are not like overnight or something.
I am collecting eggs constantly to make sure no one goes broody. Its a daily fight with the turkeys who are plucked all the way down and waiting for a pile to sit on. If only the darn ducks would go broody!
 

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