LMBO! It could only happen to ME!!!!!!!!!

[CMV]

That's funny! Isn't it always the one you'd never suspect? My chronic broody is my toughest hen. She's a bully and a brute, but wants to hatch some babies really badly. I'd be terrified to leave her with babies.

Congratulations on your new silkies and your new broody.

 

[wegotchickens]

I wouldn't give her the chicks you get in the mail.

But I would leave her 3 eggs to hatch and see if she's serious. She may break herself or she may be good at it. Give her a chance, because the Silkie chicks have a LOT of growing to do before they'll be brood-ready.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Maybe I should order some chicks.

You can't break her! Just give her a few eggs and see how she does. A couple more chicks won't hurt.

 

[bethandjoeync]

I have a chicken that has decided to go broody for the second time. the first time (in november) she hatched two out of 4 eggs (then my dh and I got incubator fever!). and now that her little ones are older she has decided she wants more eggs to sit on. she has occupied everyone's favorite nest and they are not happy. she has been sitting on plastic golf balls for about a month now, I think. we ordered chicks from cackle and bought bantams during chick days at TSC so I have enough little ones to deal with, and really don't need anymore. but she was a pretty good mom even though she was picked on, and gets picked on by all the others. we tried to put her in with the other chicks to see if she would just pick up on the mothering and forget about her nest....but she ate some food and didn't even want to deal with all those babies lol I was hoping she would teach them all (all 39 of them lol) how to be a chicken. I raised her up the other day to make sure no one laid in her nest while she was gone for a walk around the coop...and she has two eggs under her and two golf balls. I am tempted to just leave them. I dont' have a clue how far they are....I think this weekend we are going to have to candle them.

good luck trying to break your broody. you can always try and sneak in at night and put some chicks under her. I have heard that works. or heck just give her a small clutch to hatch and enjoy!

 

[LittleFeat]

You'll have to name a chick she hatches Murphy......as in Murphy's Law!

I keep reading things on here and wondering what it is like....When I first started with my chicks last summer I kept reading about the Egg Song. People would describe it but yet I still wasn't quite sure what it would sound like....until I heard it!! Now I keep wondering what it will be like if one of mine, and which one, goes broody. Guess I'll just have to wait and see.

 

[cthrash1]

Glad I'm not the only one to have a "less likely to be broody" hen. I was just looking for encouragement through my own thread that my Andalusian was taking longer than usual to lay an egg and the folks won't even lie to me... They are brutally honest that she could be broody. And even used examples... sheesh!!!

 

[ChooksChick]

I have a cuckoo EE, a Serama, a Houdan and a BR all broody right now. I thought I had too many nestboxes for the 20 girls in my Beak House coop (there are 8 nests) and that I was spoiling them, but now I'm delighted to have the room, because these girls are taking up all the space!

I no longer listen to breed predictability on broodiness...it's never made a dent in reality for me! I have peafowl eggs under 4 Light Sussex at a friend's place because her hens are all wonky!

 

[gritsar]

Well Bluey will get two eggs MAX, if she sticks. I'm giving it another day or two.
I do have a hen I plan to introduce to the new chicks, under CLOSE supervision.
Lilith has never been accepted as part of my original flock. She's a very gentle soul. I'm kinda hoping that she will take to the chicks and them to her, so that she can finally have a place to belong; though I'm not hopeful it'll work.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Brahma babies!

 

[Kittymomma]

Why not just give her some of the chicks that you ordered? I did that with my BO and it has been great, she takes really good care of them and she'll only be out of production for 5-6 weeks instead of 10-12 weeks.