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[Mendin Fences]

The best time to eat the egg is right after the chicken lays it! My best record was getting an egg from chicken to plate in less than 5 mins

Yum!!!
I was worried when mine first started laying that they would be mad at me for taking the eggs, but they just stare at me curiously, like "oh, did I make that?"

 

[ozark_chickies]

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If hens are aloud to free range all the time and they are broody, yes they will move there nest, I have it happen to me all the time.
If the hens is penned up at night or if the hens aren't broody then no they wont move her nest.

Chris

Same thing here. I have a few that like to hide thier nests in the garden and flower beds. When all of the eggs are removed, they abandon the nest site. If I leave a 'nest egg' they will come back and lay more eggs.

 

[wolftracks]

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If hens are aloud to free range all the time and they are broody, yes they will move there nest, I have it happen to me all the time.
If the hens is penned up at night or if the hens aren't broody then no they wont move her nest.

Chris

Same thing here. I have a few that like to hide thier nests in the garden and flower beds. When all of the eggs are removed, they abandon the nest site. If I leave a 'nest egg' they will come back and lay more eggs.

I had 3 that disappeared this summer. Then one came back with chicks, then a week later the other two came back. Broodies are a whole different bird. More like Raptors when you touch their eggs. My sweetest girl turned into Chickzilla when she was broodie. She actually bit and held on to my arm. Best little momma though.

 

[johnsons-r-us]

I asked my "linebacker" size hubby to go see if there were eggs in the coop. He came back blushing and said "thanks honey, I caught one of the BR's on a nest", so he quietly shut the door.

Left the egg with her. No, she's not even broody!

 

[ozark_chickies]

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Same thing here. I have a few that like to hide thier nests in the garden and flower beds. When all of the eggs are removed, they abandon the nest site. If I leave a 'nest egg' they will come back and lay more eggs.

I had 3 that disappeared this summer. Then one came back with chicks, then a week later the other two came back. Broodies are a whole different bird. More like Raptors when you touch their eggs. My sweetest girl turned into Chickzilla when she was broodie. She actually bit and held on to my arm. Best little momma though.

I love broodies with little biddies

. I have the 'Chickzill' type that will flog if you get to close , but I've had a few that would lead the chicks up to eat out of my hand. What puzzles me are the old hidden nests full of eggs that get abandoned . Did she change her mind or get scared away?

 

[wolftracks]

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I had 3 that disappeared this summer. Then one came back with chicks, then a week later the other two came back. Broodies are a whole different bird. More like Raptors when you touch their eggs. My sweetest girl turned into Chickzilla when she was broodie. She actually bit and held on to my arm. Best little momma though.

I love broodies with little biddies

. I have the 'Chickzill' type that will flog if you get to close , but I've had a few that would lead the chicks up to eat out of my hand. What puzzles me are the old hidden nests full of eggs that get abandoned . Did she change her mind or get scared away?

Probably one or the other. I had a hen on a hidden nest, but my daughter came by, Mind you she hates my chickens. She saw the hen out in the yard and panicked and chased her for 20 minutes, before letting me know she couldn't catch her to put her on the nest. I told her she was just out to eat and drink. The hen never went back so I ended up hatching the eggs from the incubator, but a month later she was one of the hens that disappeared and came back with chicks.

 

[Fierlin1182]

I wish we could have a rooster, you guys have the most awesome broody stories

 

[silky_3699]

ray's two cents :

I wish we could have a rooster, you guys have the most awesome broody stories

move out of town

 

[LindenLiving]

I have five nests for my girls and they lay in every and all of them. I use two golf balls and three table tennis balls to "encourage" them to lay in the nests. Well, some of them have realized that the table tennis balls can be kicked out and I do believe they are having a kicking contest to see who can kick them the furthest across the coop!!!!

 

[wolftracks]

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I had 5 for 12 -14 this summer in one area. I literally had to untwist and remove 6 fat hens who all decided it was theirs. All you saw what tails, feet and heads. I have no idea how they all did it, but it took me a while to figure out how to get the first bird out without hurting the others. Parts would look like they went together and they didn't. I was crying I was so worried. Now I wish I had grabbed my phone and taken pictures, but at the time it scared the heck out of me. Five boxes and they pile into one. I only have an EE laying right now. Figures none of my purebred flocks are laying, but they have all used one or two boxes. If those 2 are being used though the EE is smart enough to used a different one.