I am frustrated.

[dave_Cash69]

I have had chickens for about a year, and never had anyone go broody.

I have only had pigeons go broody.

Please keep your fingers crossed, even PRAY for me to get a broody hen, I have the hatching fever so bad and I beleive mixes of my roos and hens would make beautiful offspring!!

I am looking so foward to getting one.

Anyone have reasons why NONE of my flock have went broody? Any reasons that could effect a hen going broody?

 

[Kelly G]

Good luck! I'll keep an eye out for updates...I understand Silkies often go broody - so maybe it's just a matter of time. Again, good luck!

 

[jvls1942]

find somebody in your neighborhood with Buff Orpingtons

I would give you a broody if you want to come to wisc and pick her up. I have 55 hens and usually have at least 6 broody all the time.

the 3 year olds are the best..

I can't keep them from going broody..

 

[dave_Cash69]

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haha cant do that,
im in kentucky
although it seems tempting

 

[ThePolishPrincess]

I'm sorry. I have a Silkie who I've raised from chickhood and has been in my flock for two years. Not once has she gone successfully broody and stayed that way until I have had to break her. So, now I have no first-hand proof that Silkies are the fierce protectors that others claim them to be.

I'm rooting for you!

Leave gold balls in the nests to tempt them.

 

[jlmann]

Your game hen might be your best bet for a broody. I had one years ago that was the best mother hen I have ever seen- she raised eggs from most of my other chickens and would even take in small chicks that the other hens abandoned. I guess she would have hatched snake eggs if someone would have put them under her. She always seemed to get broody in the spring too so good luck!

 

[hooksetz]

In our larger pen we have 2 nest boxes that are secluded from the rest, one is strapped up high, the other is in a corner. We have a bantam RIW who lays in the high nest and every afternoon we swap her fresh egg with a RIRs egg until she has 7 up there, she usually lays about 5 more then she's sitting. She hatches 7 every set. It's the same in the other box, our hens won't go broody until they've layed what they think is a nest full of eggs. Maybe try a couple of golf balls in each nest box, and skip a few days on gathering eggs to see if something doesn't trigger. Good luck.

sorry about the other duplicate posts, I didn't think it was going through, then POW, there they were.

 

[hooksetz]

In our larger pen we have 2 nest boxes that are secluded from the rest, one is strapped up high, the other is in a corner. We have a bantam RIW who lays in the high nest and every afternoon we swap her fresh egg with a RIRs egg until she has 7 up there, she usually lays about 5 more then she's sitting. She hatches 7 every set. It's the same in the other box, our hens won't go broody until they've layed what they think is a nest full of eggs. Maybe try a couple of golf balls in each nest box, and skip a few days on gathering eggs to see if something doesn't trigger. Good luck.

 

[hooksetz]

In our larger pen we have 2 nest boxes that are secluded from the rest, one is strapped up high, the other is in a corner. We have a bantam RIW who lays in the high nest and every afternoon we swap her fresh egg with a RIRs egg until she has 7 up there, she usually lays about 5 more then she's sitting. She hatches 7 every set. It's the same in the other box, our hens won't go broody until they've layed what they think is a nest full of eggs. Maybe try a couple of golf balls in each nest box, and skip a few days on gathering eggs to see if something doesn't trigger. Good luck.

 

[dave_Cash69]

alright, I might try that
Hopefully it works