NY chicken lover!!!!

[Lapeerian]

Just keep pulling any egg she gets on.  I have an Ee broody I think.  

I've two marans on eggs, a Del and a C.Rock.  

If I had more marans and Dels I'd not let them sit, but I need to bring their numbers up.  I panicked when DW got sick and Now I need to replace the ones I sold. 

So just pull her eggs and take her out of the nest box each time your out there. 

I've never had effective broody breaking with the pull eggs toss hen method. They just run around a bit, then right back in. By putting them in the Eglu they are away from the main flock and can't free range, so they think about that instead and pace. I add the roo to keep her moving too. I'll leave her there at least a week.
Love my two Eglus, got both used for a fraction of the cost of a new one. Use them for transitioning chicks outside, broody hens (slightly different method used than breaking), grow out pen for bachelor boys and use the wire run in the coop to integrate pullets.

 

[BakerzDozen]

here.

 

[rancher hicks]

I've never had effective broody breaking with the pull eggs toss hen method. They just run around a bit, then right back in. By putting them in the Eglu they are away from the main flock and can't free range, so they think about that instead and pace. I add the roo to keep her moving too. I'll leave her there at least a week.
Love my two Eglus, got both used for a fraction of the cost of a new one. Use them for transitioning chicks outside, broody hens (slightly different method used than breaking), grow out pen for bachelor boys and use the wire run in the coop to integrate pullets.

There are all kinds of methods and Ideas. I just try, but honestly not too hard. I'm just too soft.

Last time I put empty milk jugs in the two empty nest boxes. I think it worked. THINK. I can't be sure.

Now in the newest situation the nest boxes are buckets, so I will tip them up at night so the hens can't get in.

Females have always confused me.

Males are easier. You just shorten his career and he'll do pretty much whatever you want.

 

[Anuthatch]

HI!

I had a Speckled Sussex get broody. I used the advise of the Chicken Chick and put her in a wire cage without bedding and up off the floor so the air circulated under her. I gave her a roost, too. The idea is so she can't easily nest and keep that breast all warm and toasty. She was sitting on 9 infertile eggs in my hosta plants! I caught her within 2 day of sitting and it only took 2.5 days in the broody jail to get her broken. Maybe I'm just lucky but I was happy. She was not so happy in the broody jail.

Next year I'm hoping to have Speckled Sussex chicks and fertile eggs. 2 young roosters in my flock now.

 

[Deckgirls]

my cream legbar finally started laying!!!! i am DONE getting new chickens for a while! i see people so excited to get new chickens and i understand the excitement but man my girls are SO MEAN it takes MONTHS for them to accept the new birds. we added the marans and legbar in april and just now they are "ok" with eachother still fighting here and there. it drives me insane! anyway...my new egg is beautiful

 

[akaruby]

Well my neighbor has had the town code officer write me again about my chickens. Apparently he would like for us to move our coop/run to have more of a "buffer zone" so its further away from his windows on the back of his house. I guess his bedroom window is close to the coop. My oldest chickens are silkies and they haven't started laying yet. The others are still fairly young. The silkies only chat with me when I go back there, they are very quiet.

I am all about trying to work things out, but my coop/run is stationary and I have no clue about how I would be able to make it a tractor or move it. Here is a picture of the coop, if you have ideas please share.

I really have compromised with this guy, not sure what else I can do.

 

[boskelli1571]

Well my neighbor has had the town code officer write me again about my chickens. Apparently he would like for us to move our coop/run to have more of a "buffer zone" so its further away from his windows on the back of his house. I guess his bedroom window is close to the coop. My oldest chickens are silkies and they haven't started laying yet. The others are still fairly young. The silkies only chat with me when I go back there, they are very quiet.

I am all about trying to work things out, but my coop/run is stationary and I have no clue about how I would be able to make it a tractor or move it. Here is a picture of the coop, if you have ideas please share.

I really have compromised with this guy, not sure what else I can do.

It looks like moving the coop and run would be a huge effort involving lifting gear etc. I would write back politely stating that it would cost money to move the coop. and if the neighbor wants to pay that's fine. It looks like your coop backs right up to your house? If you move it further away I would think that the 'noise' of the chickens would travel further because it's not absorbed by the current building. Point out too, that you are zoned to have chickens. If you have the time/energy do a 24 hour sound recording of your chickens to show just how 'noisy' they are.
Sit tight - I think this fellow is just being ridiculous. He's trying to make you give up all your birds. Or you could very sweetly say you are going to get half a dozen small yappy dogs instead.......

 

[Pyxis]

If you are within your rights to have chickens and there isn't any excessive noise or mess, and I do remember you even got rid of some of your birds to appease him, I don't see why you should have to do anything else. You should ask him what specific complaint he has that he wants them moved for. You are within your rights, from what I remember you writing, and you got rid of the noisiest birds to help with the problem. You said your coop has no smell. either. It sounds like he is being very unreasonable. I really would ask him exactly why he wants the coop moved, because you don't have to if you don't want to. It's your property and you can do what you want on it, especially since you've already taken steps that you didn't even need to take to diffuse the situation.

Then, if you decide he has a good reason and you want to move the coop, or if you just want to move it so you don't have to deal with him any more, get some lengths of PVC pipe and slide them under the end. The coop will roll up onto them and be easy to move. You'll have to replace the pipe as the coop slides off it and put it back under the coop in the front, but this way you can just roll the coop where you want it. I'm using this method to move a big two story 8x4 coop that I want to sell.

 

[rancher hicks]

HI!

I had a Speckled Sussex get broody. I used the advise of the Chicken Chick and put her in a wire cage without bedding and up off the floor so the air circulated under her. I gave her a roost, too. The idea is so she can't easily nest and keep that breast all warm and toasty. She was sitting on 9 infertile eggs in my hosta plants! I caught her within 2 day of sitting and it only took 2.5 days in the broody jail to get her broken. Maybe I'm just lucky but I was happy. She was not so happy in the broody jail.

Next year I'm hoping to have Speckled Sussex chicks and fertile eggs. 2 young roosters in my flock now.

I don't have a wire cage, plus I'd need.......maybe eight? I don't disagree with the method of course but I've too many hens for such a trick.

 

[Glasshen]

I don't know why people think sounds a chicken makes are so objectionable. No one complains about lawn mowers or chain saws which are really noisy...I like Boskelli's suggestion of the yappy dogs. Perhaps the neighbor needs one of those white noise things.