Just found my missing broody in a birdsnest IN A TREE- update page 6

[joebryant]

If it were I, I'd leave her alone and let the chicks jump to the ground. She might even carry them down in her wings. It isn't likely that they'd be hurt by jumping; wood duck ducklings do it all the time from WAY up in trees.

 

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[mikeksfarmer]

Hey just for the record baby wood ducks have jumped from trees for thousands of years. And for sure not all nests are above water they hit the ground just fine. If you need more proof baby "Giant Canada Geese" nest on the Missouri river bluffs and jump to their mothers call and are just fine. In short Babies bounce. Heck she has worked hard and had to think to find this spot let her keep it to the end if you can. Good luck and cute story

 

[frogsong]

I would definitely move her, nest and all. The chicks could easily fall out of the nest before mama is ready to leave the nest and die.

I had a chicken go broody and hide her eggs this year too. I found her eggs in a planter on my back patio. At the time I didn't know she was broody, just thought she was laying her eggs in the planter, and since I had an incubator already going I took them and stuck them in the incubator.

Later, I noticed she was acting strangely, running around like she was looking for something and trying to get into the aviary where the little button quail are. I guess she thought they were babies.

So I ended up putting her eggs back and putting her on them and she settled right down. The problem was, I lock my chickens up at night so the critters can't get them and with her sitting on the eggs outside the coop, I was worried, so I moved her, planter and all into one of the aviaries that was empty. She didn't mind the move at all, as long as she knew her eggs went with her. So I don't think you have to worry about her abandoning the nest if you move her. She seems pretty determined.

 

[austinhart123]

i think you should bring the whole nest down when you move her that way it looks familiar to her

 

[PortageGirl]

I've been searching for a video of a hen and chicks 'poofing' out of a nest 10+ feet off the ground, they all were fine, but your nest is quite a bit higher it seems. I dunno what to advise, but they'll be super tough chickies, that's for sure!!

 

[tomato lady]

It occurs to me that it might be safer for the people involved to let nature take its course. I just have this vision of someone at the top of a very tall ladder trying to remove a nest with a chicken flapping him in the face. Just a thought.

 

[joebryant]

My cousin and I used to throw my grandmother's hens out of the door in the barn loft near the ceiling to watch them fly, about thirty feet high. We were darling little boys, and the hens loved us.

 

[ChicknJ]

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NOT!!!!

Grandpa never made you go get a twitch to tan your behinds with?

 

[Happy Chooks]

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And a really mad, puffed up, growling chicken.