I guess broodiness is contagious

[Desert Rooster]

Yes it is, i posted a tread asking this same question.

 

[emjay]

sigh, it never ends.
thankfully my EE pullet snapped out of it..................however , to make up for her, I have 2 ducks broody, they are sitting on 22 eggs between them.

they look awfully cozy. teamwork, as they say.


and now today, one of wyandottes has gone broody. My Princess has got the bug. She looks so pleased with herself sitting in the nest box.

so, that makes it 5 broodys this month. THAT'S IT, NO MORE, STOP THE MADNESS. I won't be collecting eggs for the wyandotte, she can have what she is on now, and we shall see what kind of a mom she is.

My first broody this year, was on duck eggs, only 4 made it, and what a good mom she is being, I think she prefers ducklings over the usual chicks, they don't peck at her eyes. haha.

next broody hens babies due first week of May.

ducks broodys batch due May 21, give or take.

 

[emjay]

just moved the wyandotte to her new broody space, man, she was on alot of eggs, only because the other girls think they need to sit with her to lay their eggs, rather then use the two empty nest boxes

so I gave her 13 or 14 of the ones she was on, she was on about 18, no way do I need that many more.

This is it though, no more being nice, any broody from here on in, shall be broke of the spell. I'm tapping out , ding ding ding.

 

[Bluerock]

Update on my broody hens. A few days after I first posted, a snake got in the brooder pen where I had the broody hens set and ate all six eggs that one of the hens was on. I found her the next morning pacing the pen and all of her eggs gone. So, I reset her on some eggs. About a week later, the first broody of the three in the pen was due to hatch her eggs out. I came home at lunch to check on her, and who do I find in her box? The hen that had the eggs eaten by the snake. Guess she decided that she wasn't going through that again and stole the other hen's eggs just as they were hatching. Now I have two hens raising six chicks, but the chicks mainly respond to the hen that was on the nest when they hatched. I feel bad for the hen that sat there for 20.5 days hatching them out only to have them "stolen" at the last minute.