- Jul 20, 2012
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Hi:
I am a new member who has had chickens in my backyard for over a year. One "problem" lady is Buffy, my Buff Orpington. Instead of using the laying box she occasionally wanders to the "dewberry" patch to lay. Then, she will become broody and try to hatch the "varmits". We have no rooster as we are in city limits. Both times this year she eventually "snapped" out of it after many days of owner distress. Our ladies have free run of our fenced backyard which has lots of cover for the heat, several fruit trees, and a veggie garden (also fenced). Our other two ladies are a Rhode Island Red and an Ameraucana. We tried to break the broodiness by keeping Buffy locked up in the coop for a day and when she was out and reverted we would pick her up and mover her to the water where she would flop for awhile and then get up to drink or eat. Anyway, what else can we do to help correct or contain this behavior?
I am a new member who has had chickens in my backyard for over a year. One "problem" lady is Buffy, my Buff Orpington. Instead of using the laying box she occasionally wanders to the "dewberry" patch to lay. Then, she will become broody and try to hatch the "varmits". We have no rooster as we are in city limits. Both times this year she eventually "snapped" out of it after many days of owner distress. Our ladies have free run of our fenced backyard which has lots of cover for the heat, several fruit trees, and a veggie garden (also fenced). Our other two ladies are a Rhode Island Red and an Ameraucana. We tried to break the broodiness by keeping Buffy locked up in the coop for a day and when she was out and reverted we would pick her up and mover her to the water where she would flop for awhile and then get up to drink or eat. Anyway, what else can we do to help correct or contain this behavior?
