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New to chickens
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Hello there and welcome to BYC!
You have been give some great advice from above posters. Broodiness is hormone driven. Seeing eggs in the nest boxes will not gear them up for setting on them. And fall is not the best time for broodiness, although some birds will go broody at any time of year. But spring and summer are the best times for those broodies.
So keep collecting those eggs and when you know one of them is definitely broody, you can start to leave them under her. Broodies will growl at you, puff themselves up at you and other birds, cluck cluck cluck all over the place and refuse to come out of the nest box.
Good luck with your flock and welcome to our roost!
You have been give some great advice from above posters. Broodiness is hormone driven. Seeing eggs in the nest boxes will not gear them up for setting on them. And fall is not the best time for broodiness, although some birds will go broody at any time of year. But spring and summer are the best times for those broodies.
So keep collecting those eggs and when you know one of them is definitely broody, you can start to leave them under her. Broodies will growl at you, puff themselves up at you and other birds, cluck cluck cluck all over the place and refuse to come out of the nest box.
Good luck with your flock and welcome to our roost!
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