how to get chicken warm?

[ChickenCanoe]

I have an Ameraucana chicken that is laying on eggs even though i do not have any roosters, i havent been able to find her cause she has been hiding, today i went outside and looked everywhere and found her in the bushes laying on about a dozen eggs, it snowed where i am from last night and she is really wet and shivering! any suggestions on how to get her warm? she is eating and drinking water now. she seems really nervous and keeps looking back to where i took her from, and making a really different noise that i haven't heard before is this normal? Thanks everyone.

There is no need for a rooster to be present in order to get eggs.
The avian egg is the equivalent of a mammalian menstrual cycle.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Double post.

 

[Diana_burns04]

My ammericcana, was broody!! She took in my chicks that year!! It's so cute!!

 

[Diana_burns04]

@ChickenCanoe I had a broody pullet this past summer who would kick the eggs out of the nest. She wanted to brood, but she didn't like having eggs under her lol

Mine too!! It's hard to get them out of it..

 

[featherhead007]

The weird clucking sound is that of a broody hen.
Since the eggs aren't fertile, you need to break her broodiness.
The tried and true method is an elevated wire bottom cage. After 2 days or so of cool air getting to their bottom the hormone cycle will be broken.
For now get her inside and dry. Use a towel or blow dryer.
Then set up a cage in the coop with a bit of food and water but if you let her plunk her belly down on a solid floor/ground, she will keep it warm and that won't break the broodiness.

Quite correct too!

 

[Diana_burns04]

Mine was a good mama

 

[aart]

The avian egg is the equivalent of a mammalian menstrual cycle.

Well...not really(at all) thank goodness.
Birds ovulate daily when conditions are right.
Mammals are much different.

 

[featherhead007]

This one is too!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Well...not really(at all) thank goodness.
Birds ovulate daily when conditions are right.
Mammals are much different.

The frequency of the cycle varies greatly between mammals and avians. Some avians cycle is daily for lengthy periods, some only kick out one or two eggs a year.
Some mammals will produce eggs once a year or less while others like mice rats, rabbits, etc. produce much more frequently.
But it is still the same thing. It is the female of the species way of producing her gametes.

 

[featherhead007]

The frequency of the cycle varies greatly but it is still the same thing.

Thank God!