Hen acting weirdly

KranK

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Jul 13, 2020
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Sup, yesterday evening i saw that my hen wasn't roosting but sitting in the nesting box. I let her sit in there but today she was doing this too. She doesn't make broody sound and doesn't puff up when i approach her. When i took her out she went to eat something and was trying to "sand"bath on concrete (yeah, she started scratching, pecking concrete and then laid on it and started doing bathing moves). She ate some wheat and got back to nest. When i took her out she just sat on the ground. In the evening i checked her for an egg-bound with disposable glove and petrollum jelly but there was no egg. She was making some sound (normal chicke n sound, not broody) and when i put her on the ground she jumped on the roost. What's with her? It may sound stupid, but could something be wrong with her head? She run under a piece of ice and got hit in head a month ago (long and stupid story :/). Or is she starting becoming broody?
P.S. Its late autumn
 
How old is she?
Could she be going broody for the first time and because of this she has now idea what she is suppose to do to be broody?
She started laying in juni so about 8 months i guess. I was thinking about it but animals have instinct so idk
 
She started laying in juni so about 8 months i guess. I was thinking about it but animals have instinct so idk
I'm thinking her body wants to go broody but she has no idea what it is all about. You could block the nesting boxes off after you get home to help break her. I know some people put the broody into a crate with her own food and water to break the broody. With my broody hens, I do what you are doing, I keep taking her out of the nesting box. It takes longer to break this way but it worked.
 
I'm thinking her body wants to go broody but she has no idea what it is all about. You could block the nesting boxes off after you get home to help break her. I know some people put the broody into a crate with her own food and water to break the broody. With my broody hens, I do what you are doing, I keep taking her out of the nesting box. It takes longer to break this way but it worked.
My previous broody has been kept in rabbit hutch and broke broodiness in about a week. I'll see how this one is doing and if she starts going really crazy then i'll put her in the hutch.
 

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