Hens have not been broody at all!!!!!!!!!!

[ScoobyRoo]

Good to hear things are looking up. You don't say were you got your birds. The reason I say this is last year I was wondering why mine never went broody and I had a mod tell me that hatchery chicks have the broodiness bred out of them. So I incubatored their eggs and now some of those chickens are broody for me. How old is your little banty?

 

[Murphys2009]

Found the remains of the Bantam today. Put her eggs in the bator.

That's why I have the "game chickens". But the Maran is still on.

 

[briana1975]

You need some Buff Orpingtons or Seramas. Mine are always broody. I just locked them all out of the coop for half a day and broke all but one. I only had one open nest box. You don't need to let eggs sit in the nest. They will go broody on nothing. Extra eggs sitting around just wastes good eggs.

 

[PunkinPeep]

Henry'schickens :

Good to hear things are looking up. You don't say were you got your birds. The reason I say this is last year I was wondering why mine never went broody and I had a mod tell me that hatchery chicks have the broodiness bred out of them. So I incubatored their eggs and now some of those chickens are broody for me. How old is your little banty?

I guess this might be true for some breeds, but all my chickens are from hatchery stock, and i have had 6 broodies hatch since April. Then i had two more broodies i had to break because i didn't have enough eggs for them.​