Going broody? Or just protective of egg?

[Top Rooster]

I thought you were not going to let her hatch.

 

[The Golden Egg5]

I thought you were not going to let her hatch.

I decided I would. I am going to try to move her to a different location and if it works, I will let her hatch. I really hope she takes to the new spot because I am really starting to look forwards to her and some chicks. How is your broody? Are things running smoothly over there?

 

[The Golden Egg5]

She is 100% broody! Sleeping in the new nest box I made for her! I'm so excited! She is on 5 eggs.

 

[The Golden Egg5]

I came up with some potential names for the chicks that hatch. I'm so excited!
Henrietta *favorite
Gertrude *favorite as well
Martha
Adeline
Harriet
Do you have any other suggestions?

 

[Top Rooster]

I decided I would. I am going to try to move her to a different location and if it works, I will let her hatch. I really hope she takes to the new spot because I am really starting to look forwards to her and some chicks. How is your broody? Are things running smoothly over there?

yes everything is running smoothly she's sitting on 3 eggs two EE eggs and one unknown egg. The funny thing about this hen is she's a leghorn and she goes broody every fall last year she went broody in October of all times and to be a leghorn just shocked me. Then she went broody again in May and hatched 3 chicks, sadly none made it she had a friend who brooded with her but they weren't to much of friends they didn't get along at all. Around when the chicks were four weeks old the leghorn had already lost her chicks while her brooding mate still had hers, anyway she ended up getting caught in her nest and killed by a raccoon leaving her chicks abandoned but now they've grown up and are doing better.

Well now she's broody again twice in one year as a leghorn carrying on her tradition as a fall broody. She is quite the shocking hen.

 

[The Golden Egg5]

yes everything is running smoothly she's sitting on 3 eggs two EE eggs and one unknown egg. The funny thing about this hen is she's a leghorn and she goes broody every fall last year she went broody in October of all times and to be a leghorn just shocked me. Then she went broody again in May and hatched 3 chicks, sadly none made it she had a friend who brooded with her but they weren't to much of friends they didn't get along at all. Around when the chicks were four weeks old the leghorn had already lost her chicks while her brooding mate still had hers, anyway she ended up getting caught in her nest and killed by a raccoon leaving her chicks abandoned but now they've grown up and are doing better.

Well now she's broody again twice in one year as a leghorn carrying on her tradition as a fall broody. She is quite the shocking hen.

Wow!! I'm sorry for your losses, that must have been hard. That's crazy that a leghorn is that broody! I have never heard of a broody leghorn before! Well, I hope all goes well with your fall hatch. I'm pretty shocked with my girl who is broody because she is only 6 months old. I have always heard that they won't go broody until 1 year! I guess chickens don't know how to read, so she doesn't know she isn't supposed to be broody.

 

[The Golden Egg5]

She is definitely broody because she walks around fluffed up and making broody clucks ( I looked it up and she is 100% making broody noises) but she won't sit on her nest. She sat all day yesterday and all night last night, but now refuses. To make matters worse, she (or someone else) kicked one of her eggs off the nest and with it being nearly pitch black in the coop, I stepped on it. And guess what? The little embryo was forming. It was about 3x the size that it is before starting incubation. It nearly broke my heart seeing the little baby that wasnt going to have a chance at life because my girl is temperamental.
Mabye she will decide if she wants to brood or not while I'm over here picking up her giant broody poops.

 

[Top Rooster]

Have you not separated her? If you separate her she'll have to sit on her only available nest that you give her that will tell her. It is a bad idea to keep her nest vulnerable to other hens, I have a hen who hates broodies (Oreo) she'll kick them out of their nest, then get in their nest break one of the broodies eggs and leave without laying an egg. I have a love hate relationship with her.

 

[The Golden Egg5]

Have you not separated her? If you separate her she'll have to sit on her only available nest that you give her that will tell her. It is a bad idea to keep her nest vulnerable to other hens, I have a hen who hates broodies (Oreo) she'll kick them out of their nest, then get in their nest break one of the broodies eggs and leave without laying an egg. I have a love hate relationship with her.

She is kept in the corner of the coop in a cage and is let out after work to go wherever she wants to then the cage is left open. The others didn't really mess with it that I saw, besides at the end of the day when I stepped on the egg

 

[The Golden Egg5]

Now she is looking completely committed. In another box that is.