Is there any tips for getting a hen to go broody?

[KiwiandPeachthePigeons]

I have a silkie hen that has never layed a single egg, nor gone broody. But I want her to incubate some eggs for me. Is there any tips I can try to make her go broody? I’ve tryed giving her some eggs to check out but she just pecks at them.

 

[Silkielove102]

mark some eggs and put them in a clutch and wait a few days...

 

[365username]

I have a silkie hen that has never layed a single egg, nor gone broody. But I want her to incubate some eggs for me. Is there any tips I can try to make her go broody? I’ve tryed giving her some eggs to check out but she just pecks at them.

Sorry to say, but I don’t think there’s a way you can get a hen to go broody they kind of just go broody if they want to. And I don’t think she’s gonna want to go broody any time soon sense she hasn’t even laid her first egg yet

 

[Silkielove102]

Sorry to say, but I don’t think there’s a way you can get a hen to go broody they kind of just go broody if they want to. And I don’t think she’s gonna want to go broody any time soon sense she hasn’t even laid her first egg yet

Thats true

 

[Silkielove102]

Thats true

I didnt even think about that.

 

[365username]

I tried so many times last year over and over again to get one of my hens to go broody but none of them ever did. I tried all my ducks hens and even the roosters but they just didn’t like it

 

[KiwiandPeachthePigeons]

I’m going to mark some eggs and leave them in the nest boxes.

 

[Vantic]

Usually, the question goes the other way, how do I stop. Chickens with broody potential are attracted to a collection of eggs. Let them collect in the nest for a bit and see if she takes the bait.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Usually, the question goes the other way, how do I stop. Chickens with broody potential are attracted to a collection of eggs. Let them collect in the nest for a bit and see if she takes the bait.

Yes! I've got the opposite problem. My little 6 month old silkie pullet stays on the nest most of the time, but she'll get off a few times a day and she's still laying, so not completely broody, I guess. I keep fake eggs in the nesting boxes and she'll sit on those or any others that I haven't collected. Maybe that is my problem. Maybe the fake eggs do help lure them in.

 

[365username]

I’m going to mark some eggs and leave them in the nest boxes.

That’s a good idea I wasn’t saying there’s no way she’ll want to go broody, I was more tryin to say it’s not too likely. Good luck