How long does it take a hen to realize she doesn't have chicks

[jay873]

Had a hen go broody and hatched out chicks and she became super aggressive toward the other chickens but they were big enough that it scared them.more than hurt them so I just moved her into a newly built pen that I had 2 month old chicks in they were in a cage and there were 4 see hens in there and a.rooster but she just circled the cage trying to peck them through the cage and she pecked a chicks eye out and it's blind in one eye so yesterday while i.was feeding them a chick slipped out of the door and she ran to it and was attacking it wouldn't give it a chance to run away or anything and that did it I snatched her up and put her in the pen with the layers and the chicks she had with the older chicks but she is.still clucking and trying to call them to food and stuff today and I removed the yesterday morning. So how long until she snaps out of it and starts laying again ?

 

[Welshies]

I'm confused. What happened? She attacked her own chicks? The other birds did?

 

[jay873]

No I had an incubated batch then after they hatched she went broody so I let her still hatch eggs .so right now her chicks are a month old and the others are 2 months old that were hatched I'm an incubator and I also have full grown hens . So some full grown hens were in the pen with her and her chicks but they stayed away. And the 2 month old chicks were in a dog cage so they were protected from the rest of the flock

 

[Welshies]

No I had an incubated batch then after they hatched she went broody so I let her still hatch eggs .so right now her chicks are a month old and the others are 2 months old that were hatched I'm an incubator and I also have full grown hens . So some full grown hens were in the pen with her and her chicks but they stayed away. And the 2 month old chicks were in a dog cage so they were protected from the rest of the flock

So then what. Who's picking on who here?
I will go ahead and say your hen was not broody, unless you incubated those eggs in a true incubator and not under her. Then she won't recognizr them as hers. But if she hatched them, she wasn't broody. She was sitting down fluffed up to keep them warm.

 

[AlleysChicks]

Some snap out of it but I have a broody that is still mothering chicks that hatched in October. She knows she hatched some, so she’s probably been distressed since you took them away. Some moms can get really fierce! Mine attacked her siblings when they were checking out the chicks.

 

[Harmony Fowl]

I think OP had a hen that was so aggressively defending her chicks that he separated her from them. The chicks were added to a bunch of incubated chicks, apparently without incident, and the hen returned, also without incident, to her flock. The hen is still displaying mothering behavior, though, and OP wonders how long that takes to go away. I don’t have the answer, just trying to make the question clearer.

 

[AlleysChicks]

I think OP had a hen that was so aggressively defending her chicks that he separated her from them. The chicks were added to a bunch of incubated chicks, apparently without incident, and the hen returned, also without incident, to her flock. The hen is still displaying mothering behavior, though, and OP wonders how long that takes to go away. I don’t have the answer, just trying to make the question clearer.

 

[jay873]

I think OP had a hen that was so aggressively defending her chicks that he separated her from them. The chicks were added to a bunch of incubated chicks, apparently without incident, and the hen returned, also without incident, to her flock. The hen is still displaying mothering behavior, though, and OP wonders how long that takes to go away. I don’t have the answer, just trying to make the question clearer.

Yes that's exactly what's happening she attacked any chicken that see saw and yes I would like to know how long she is going to be showing motherly signs

 

[AlleysChicks]

Yes that's exactly what's happening she attacked any chicken that see saw and yes I would like to know how long she is going to be showing motherly signs

It can last awhile. Mine hatched in October and is still mothering. She’s even went back to laying a few eggs.

 

[Feathers4Fun2]

I had a similar experience in that I got impatient waiting for one of my hens to go broody so I collected the eggs and set them in an incubator. The following week my hen went broody so now I had two sets of eggs going. Mama took care of her brood but was not accepting of the incubator hatched chicks. They were within a week of each other in age but she told me "What's mine is mine and what's yours is yours and the twain shant mix".