You cant make a Hen Broody.....They either get the hormones to brood or they don't... nothing you do will bring it on....
Keep waiting ....
Keep waiting ....
letting a hen go broody
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do I have to buy eggs 
If you have a roosterNO.do I have to buy eggs
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so how do I let them lay a egg and then go broody do I just keep the eggs in there box
they all lay in one box
they all lay in one box
What do you mean?so how do I let them lay a egg and then go broody do I just keep the eggs in there box
they all lay in one box
How many birds and how many nest boxes?If the broody is in the box, the other birds will stay away from her.
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they all like to lay in one laying box
do i just keep there eggs in there and one will go broody i have 11 hens and one rooster
do i just keep there eggs in there and one will go broody i have 11 hens and one rooster
Leaving eggs in a nest will not cause a hen to go broody. You cannot make a hen go broody. I've tried leaving real eggs (marked) and fake eggs (golf balls) in nests to cause a hen to go broody. I added one a day until I have a dozen or more and left them for weeks. It has never worked and I have a flock where hens will go broody. They go broody on their own time, not yours.
Any hen can possibly go broody but with some like the leghorns it is extremely unlikely. Most Barred Rock don't either. That leaves the bantam and the other one as maybe's. You don't have hens either, you have pullets. That makes it even more unlikely one will go broody any time soon, but I have had a very few go broody before they are a year old.
A broody hen will try to hatch her eggs, any other hen's eggs, turkey, duck, or pheasant eggs, golf balls, or anything else that remotely resembles an egg. If she doesn't have something like that she will use her imagination. What I do is collect the eggs every day. When a hen goes broody she will stop laying so I collect the other hen's eggs and store them until I have all I want her to hatch. Then I give them all to her so they start at the same time so they will hatch together.
I let my hens hatch eggs and raise chicks with the flock, others isolate their broody hens. We do things differently for our own reasons. I'll let those that isolate their broody hens tell you their techniques, but I mark the eggs with a black Sharpie so I can tell which eggs belong and check under the broody hen once a day after all the others have laid and remove the new eggs. When the chicks hatch I make sure there is food and water on the coop floor that the chicks can get to when the broody hen decides to bring them off the nest. That's all I do. Others handle all this differently.
Hens and eggs come in different sizes. Some bantams can barely cover 4 to 6 eggs from full sized hens. I've had full sized hens that could barely cover 10 eggs the size she lays, I've had broody hens easily cover over 15 of the size she lays. Hens need to be able to easily cover all the eggs you give her, otherwise bad things happen.
The only way you can control when eggs hatch is to get an incubator. With your breeds that might be a good way to go. Otherwise you could be waiting for years.
Any hen can possibly go broody but with some like the leghorns it is extremely unlikely. Most Barred Rock don't either. That leaves the bantam and the other one as maybe's. You don't have hens either, you have pullets. That makes it even more unlikely one will go broody any time soon, but I have had a very few go broody before they are a year old.
A broody hen will try to hatch her eggs, any other hen's eggs, turkey, duck, or pheasant eggs, golf balls, or anything else that remotely resembles an egg. If she doesn't have something like that she will use her imagination. What I do is collect the eggs every day. When a hen goes broody she will stop laying so I collect the other hen's eggs and store them until I have all I want her to hatch. Then I give them all to her so they start at the same time so they will hatch together.
I let my hens hatch eggs and raise chicks with the flock, others isolate their broody hens. We do things differently for our own reasons. I'll let those that isolate their broody hens tell you their techniques, but I mark the eggs with a black Sharpie so I can tell which eggs belong and check under the broody hen once a day after all the others have laid and remove the new eggs. When the chicks hatch I make sure there is food and water on the coop floor that the chicks can get to when the broody hen decides to bring them off the nest. That's all I do. Others handle all this differently.
Hens and eggs come in different sizes. Some bantams can barely cover 4 to 6 eggs from full sized hens. I've had full sized hens that could barely cover 10 eggs the size she lays, I've had broody hens easily cover over 15 of the size she lays. Hens need to be able to easily cover all the eggs you give her, otherwise bad things happen.
The only way you can control when eggs hatch is to get an incubator. With your breeds that might be a good way to go. Otherwise you could be waiting for years.
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