Anyone have experience with broodies going crazy?
Our broody silkie has spent the past few days standing in the yard squawking her head off as loud as she can. I have no idea why, she's not hurt or threatened, there's plenty of food and water, the most I can figure is the other chickens leave her sight and she freaks out. She had adopted our BCM chicks but they are now as big as she is and have turned pretty independent, ignoring her almost completely.
We can't have her making all this noise. You can hear it in the house, and without a doubt our neighbors can hear it and don't appreciate a noisy chicken at 6 am.
Is there any way of correcting this behavior or would I be better off sending her to our friend where his neighbors don't mind loud chicken noises?