Just too funny🤣

[preciouschick]

So I go out to get my eggs and my black hen has been on them all day. I go to move her. She wont budge. I stick my hand under her to get the eggs and she puffs up really big. She starts making this noise I never hear before. Kinda like a nasty cooing rumble. Basically telling me to mind my own business and get out of there.I took 4 and left the rest to get later. I had to laugh

 

[BlueBaby]

I bet she's broody and want's to hatch those egg's. This seems to be the time of year that they want to sit on egg's and become a momma. I currently have a broody hen that this is the second time this year that I'm trying to break her of it.

 

[PippinTheChicken]

You got a broody.
They can be so stubborn!

 

[preciouschick]

I bet she's broody and want's to hatch those egg's. This seems to be the time of year that they want to sit on egg's and become a momma. I currently have a broody hen that this is the second time this year that I'm trying to break her of it.

yeah I believe so. I dont mind though. if she wants to try and hatch unfertilized eggs I dont see the harm.

 

[BlueBaby]

Unfertilized egg's will turn rotten and could burst under her, then you would have a stinky mess to clean up, along with having to clean the stinky hen.

 

[Chicalina]

If you catch it early you can break her broodiness in a couple of days. Leave her to sit (pointlessly, not to hatch) then you'll spend weeks trying to get her off the brood, because her hormones will be sky-high.

 

[3KillerBs]

You've got a broody.

If you don't have fertile eggs for her to hatch and aren't intending to buy chicks for her to foster it's kinder to break her broodiness early before long sitting has a negative effect on her health.



The most recommended means of breaking her broodiness is to put her into a broody breaker cage -- a wire cage elevated off the ground so that cool air can flow underneath her.

This is my Outdoor Broody Breaker, which worked very well on a hen who had been sitting over 2 weeks while I worked overtime and tried to come up with either fertile eggs or a wire dog crate.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/outdoor-broody-breaker.76592/

 

[BantammChick]

I bet she's broody and want's to hatch those egg's. This seems to be the time of year that they want to sit on egg's and become a momma. I currently have a broody hen that this is the second time this year that I'm trying to break her of it.

How do you break them? I have a Golden laced cochin, I wanted her for a show chicken, but she is broody. I also have a little grey chicken that is broody and pecks me every time I try to collect the eggs.

 

[3KillerBs]

How do you break them? I have a Golden laced cochin, I wanted her for a show chicken, but she is broody. I also have a little grey chicken that is broody and pecks me every time I try to collect the eggs.

You have to prevent her from nesting.

Putting her in a broody breaker cage like I showed above is one of the most common ways. My Australorp took 4 days to break.

 

[BantammChick]

You have to prevent her from nesting.

Putting her in a broody breaker cage like I showed above is one of the most common ways. My Australorp took 4 days to break.

Thanks! I could put her in the run with the babies. she's a little chicken, so she's basically the same size as my 6 - week old chicks.