Cold hens sleeping in nest boxes?

[EggSighted4Life]

Silly chickens.

Silkies?

 

[chick-habit]

Silly chickens. 

Silkies?

Frizzle Cochins!!!
Our super broody girl is getting chicks to foster in 2 weeks!
Our other frizzle follows me into the studio in the yard because she remembers the fake eggs I had her sitting on when we thought about having her foster. Broody or not she's obsessed with those plastic eggs. Except for 1, she kept kicking 1 out. That's the bad plastic egg.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

One of my frizzled cochins was broody last winter. It was -20 and she wanted to hatch. They are a broody breed. I've had the whole flock be broody at one time and fighting over nestboxes. I should have inquired about the breed of chickens you had. Broody would have been one of my reasons had I known.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Wow...

 

[duluthralphie]

I agree, had you said Cochins, we would all say "broody". Cochins are always broody. 50 out of 52 weeks a year.

 

[Teila]

Granted we are in our summer but yep, singing my song, I have just finished breaking two rather determined bantam Cochins.

One of them lays 9-10 eggs and goes broody, regular as clockwork

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Granted we are in our summer but yep, singing my song, I have just finished breaking two rather determined bantam Cochins.

One of them lays 9-10 eggs and goes broody, regular as clockwork

Is that even though you collect everyday? My buff hasn't gone broody at all. But I have a silkie right now who I would let hatch eggs but she keeps going back to the wrong box. I have to go get a wire bottom cage to break her. She doesn't have any eggs, I keep taking them. And if she isn't quite smart enough to make it back to her eggs, I'm afraid it would be me raising chicks if I gave her some. She is still young, 6 almost 7 months old. Been broody since the 19th.

 

[duluthralphie]

Granted we are in our summer but yep, singing my song, I have just finished breaking two rather determined bantam Cochins.

One of them lays 9-10 eggs and goes broody, regular as clockwork

It appears you are rubbing it in and not planning to return the sun to us anytime soon,,,

 

[Teila]

Is that even though you collect everyday? My buff hasn't gone broody at all. But I have a silkie right now who I would let hatch eggs but she keeps going back to the wrong box. I have to go get a wire bottom cage to break her. She doesn't have any eggs, I keep taking them. And if she isn't quite smart enough to make it back to her eggs, I'm afraid it would be me raising chicks if I gave her some. She is still young, 6 almost 7 months old. Been broody since the 19th.

Yep!

I work from home and only have 5 little girls so I actually collect the eggs as soon as they are laid; doesn't stop the bantam Cochins going broody and they would try and hatch straw! This is a broody Blondie planking after I blocked off the nest boxes:



This is her in Blondzilla mode .. she walks around the garden like this for days when she is broody:

It appears you are rubbing it in and not planning to return the sun to us anytime soon,,,

You can have it on Sunday!

Predicted maximum is 93F

 

[ckelley]

Yep!

I work from home and only have 5 little girls so I actually collect the eggs as soon as they are laid; doesn't stop the bantam Cochins going broody and they would try and hatch straw! This is a broody Blondie planking after I blocked off the nest boxes:



This is her in Blondzilla mode .. she walks around the garden like this for days when she is broody:

You can have it on Sunday!

Predicted maximum is 93F

Literally made me laugh! Believe it or not, that's the same stubborn look my 2 year old daughter gets when she doesn't get her way (2nd pic). If your hen could cross her arms, she would!