Interesting nesting situtation

[tstoikes]

I have a coop in which I have a few different types of nest boxes. And it seems that whichever nest the alpha female chooses they all want that one. One thing I use is milk crates, in particular I have a large one that one of my Turkey hens has decided she likes. After laying several eggs one of my EE's decided to use it as well. This particular hen lays well and will sit tightly on the eggs but is not a very good mother. So I kept taking her eggs out of the nest. But left the turkey eggs in. Well the inevitable happened and the EE went broody.... on the turkey eggs. However the turkey also went broody.... so now I have an EE sitting on turkey eggs with a turkey sitting on her! The EE is determined to sit as is the turkey. I don't know if the eggs are fertile since my Tom seemed to take a while to get the hang of what he needed to do. Just thought I'd throw that out there....

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Wow, surprised you don’t have a squashed EE.

 

[SilverPhoenix]

This sounds even funnier than my guinea fowl sitting on top of my chicken! Pictures, please!

 

[CheerfulHeart2]

tstoikes

Yes, pictures please! As for breaking a broody hen (not sure about turkeys) you might find this helpful: https://www.backyardchickens.com/search-results.php?cx=partner-pub-9473214521653913%3Ay2gvw4jitn2&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=break+broody&sa=Search&siteurl=www.backyardchickens.com%252Fforum%252Fviewtopic.php%253Fpid%253D3946695%2523p3946695#1058

SilverPhoenix - great picture. Thank you for posting.

 

[Tara Rose]

Oh that is too funny

 

[4-H chicken mom]

That makes for a stuffy situation.