HELP! i dont know whats wrong with my chicken

[Aunt Angus]

Still might be a good idea to make sure she's good and healthy. Check for parasites, check for crop issues, etc. Just in case.

 

[A.M. Eggs]

I also have a broody BO. Her chicks are due on April 9th! Only a few days left!!!

 

[Keziah]

I don't have a roo, either. Maybe take her out and see what she does?

i did take her out, but she would throw stuff on her then just beck in the box

 

[equine chick]

Order some cheap hatching eggs. Let her be a mama. I still say broody due to the feather throwing thing.

 

[Fishkeeper]

She's broody, but I wouldn't say that she wants to be a mother. She's going off of instinct- she doesn't know what she's doing, or why. Broody hens don't know that if they sit on eggs, chicks happen- at least not the first time. They might remember the later times. They just have instinct telling them to do this. She's not going to be sad or pine if you get her to stop being broody. You can sure get her some eggs, though I'd be prepared for the possibility that she'll abandon them. If you don't want to worry about that, get fake eggs, and if she sits on them for long enough, slide some chicks under her like the fake eggs hatched.

 

[aart]

You'll need to decide if you want her to hatch out some chicks, and how you will 'manage' it.
Do you have, or can you get, some fertile eggs?
Do you have the space needed? Both for more chickens and she may need to be separated by wire from the rest of the flock.
Do you have a plan on what to do with the inevitable males? Rehome, butcher, keep in separate 'bachelor pad'?
If you decide to let her hatch out some fertile eggs, this is a great thread for reference and to ask questions.
It's a long one but just start reading the first few pages, then browse thru some more at random.
http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/496101/broody-hen-thread


If you don't want her to hatch out chicks, best to break her broodiness promptly.
My experience goes about like this: After her setting for 3 days and nights in the nest, I put her in a wire dog crate with smaller wire on the bottom but no bedding, set up on a couple of 4x4's right in the coop or run with feed and water.

I used to let them out a couple times a day, but now just once a day in the evening(you don't have to) and she would go out into the run, drop a huge turd, race around running, take a vigorous dust bath then head back to the nest... at which point I put her back in the crate. Each time her outings would lengthen a bit, eating, drinking and scratching more and on the 3rd afternoon she stayed out of the nest and went to roost that evening...event over, back to normal tho she didn't lay for another week or two. Or take her out of crate daily very near roosting time(30-60 mins) if she goes to roost great, if she goes to nest put her back in crate.
Chunk of 2x4 for a 'roost' was added to crate floor after pic was taken.

 

[Ms Clucky]

I think she wants babies. She sounds broody. Put an egg next to her. If she pulls it under her, she wants babies. I have one right now that it broody and goes into a nest without eggs. She cries and whines when I take her out. She won't let the rooster cover her either. We can't let her set cause we only have one rooster out for 23 hens. The other two can't get along anymore so we have to put them in cages every day. I hate it. They are pretty and sweet, to me. My little Red can't handle them all so the eggs are not all fertile. I can't bare to get rid of the other two. Looks like we are going to have to make the chicken house/run bigger. $$ we really don't have, but we have to do it. Rusty is the main brat who don't like the other roosters touching the hens. He thinks they are all his.

Pepper is are youngest

He claimed Nilla

But Rusty don't like that at all, so Pepper and Nilla have to sneak off. It's really cute actually.

 

[MROO]

aww now i want a roo, she wants to be a mama!!!!

You don't need a roo, just some fertile eggs ... or some fakes and a pullet chick or two when the time comes. If you decide to let her hatch, make sure you have a solid plan for cockerels. Not a "Well, I'll rehome them," plan, but a "This is the actual place where they will go" plan!