NY chicken lover!!!!

[Cass]

Second Broody sitting on a nest for over a week. I moved her to an isolation area, gave her food/water and eggs. Checked on her last night, on the roost. This morning, scratching around. Do most people find this happens when you move a broody?

Framac

I never have moved a Broody. I leave them where they are, even if it is on the floor in the sand. I will admit that my nest boxes were designed to be relocateable, so I CAN move the whole box if the hen decided the TOP box is her home....cuz once the chicks hatch it would be dangerous for them to be 4 feet off the floor, but I would leave her there until the chicks hatch before I moved the box....alternatively I could move the whole box to a safe location before I give her eggs and see if she sits....but I haven't moved a broody.....I have heard to many times that if you move them, they give up, so I don't do it. I did have a broody that I gave eggs to and the neighbor's daughter picked her up and carried her around. She gave up and never returned to the nest and the eggs were less than a week from hatching. sigh. (lesson learned, don't let girls in coop when there is a broody)

 

[Jackeltree]

Hello! I am new to this forum. I grew up in Saratoga NY and just moved back from Boston where I lived for 6 years. My new house has some nice land and I hope to build a chicken coop this summer and get some fabulous fowl to fill it!

However, right now I really need some help. I have a lonely male button quail. His "wife" and he had 4 sets of babies over the last two years and I found new homes for all the babies. Now I wish that I had kept some. Last fall, my little guy lost his lover and has been so so lonely ever since. I'm listening to him call out for a mate right now. Ever since then I've been desperately searching for a new mate for him. Ideally I'd like two females of the same age as eachother, so when he goes, they won't be lonely, but all I seem to find are males...and they fight. Does anyone know anyone in the Saratoga/Albany area that has button quails that would be willing to sell me a female or two? I have a large a beautiful enclosure for them and a little gourd house, which is where my previous female hatched out her eggs and take good care of my birds.

If anyone knows anyone who breeds button quails...please let me know! My poor guy has lonely long enough.

Thank you so much!!

-Crystal

 

[stonykill]

Second Broody sitting on a nest for over a week. I moved her to an isolation area, gave her food/water and eggs. Checked on her last night, on the roost. This morning, scratching around. Do most people find this happens when you move a broody?

Framac

that has been my experience. I have only moved 1 successfully

 

[marquisella]

It depends on the hen, andthe only way you will know, is to try it. One year when I had chickens just for eggs and they ran around the farm, a hen managed to jump/fly on to the top of the coop door that was open, then jump inot the hay mow opening that was a good 4 feet away from the door, and laid & sat eggs up amongst the hay bales. One day, I was standing outside and suddenly down came all these chicks, kinda gliding to the ground, I think there were about 8. None of them were hurt. We couldn't figure out how the hen had gotten up to the hay mow, until one day about a month later, I saw her do her "jumping" thing from the door top to the open hay mow....I was amazed she could do it, and do it everyday for 3 weeks while she was broody...

I never have moved a Broody. I leave them where they are, even if it is on the floor in the sand. I will admit that my nest boxes were designed to be relocateable, so I CAN move the whole box if the hen decided the TOP box is her home....cuz once the chicks hatch it would be dangerous for them to be 4 feet off the floor, but I would leave her there until the chicks hatch before I moved the box....alternatively I could move the whole box to a safe location before I give her eggs and see if she sits....but I haven't moved a broody.....I have heard to many times that if you move them, they give up, so I don't do it. I did have a broody that I gave eggs to and the neighbor's daughter picked her up and carried her around. She gave up and never returned to the nest and the eggs were less than a week from hatching. sigh. (lesson learned, don't let girls in coop when there is a broody)

 

[greymane]

Speaking of broodies, my silkies were sitting (and hatching) eggs back before Christmas. Now, they have laid about a half dozen eggs in the last couple of days and nobody seems to want ot sit on them. Any ideas why? There are a couple Polish eggs in there (which is new from the last batch). Could that be it?

Also, it finally happened! We got our first ever "fart" egg. Just a little smaller than my quail eggs. Pretty cute. I will post a pic later.

 

[Cass]

Speaking of broodies, my silkies were sitting (and hatching) eggs back before Christmas. Now, they have laid about a half dozen eggs in the last couple of days and nobody seems to want ot sit on them. Any ideas why? There are a couple Polish eggs in there (which is new from the last batch). Could that be it?

Also, it finally happened! We got our first ever "fart" egg. Just a little smaller than my quail eggs. Pretty cute. I will post a pic later.

Broodiness is hormonal. That's why. Try and get a woman with PMS to do ANYTHING. LOL

My silkie went broody, raised her chick and is now laying.....every darn day those little eggs. LOL But I know she will go broody again when the mood strikes her....they just do it when they want to, not when WE want them to. (I think that's why they invented incubators)

 

[Cass]

Hello! I am new to this forum. I grew up in Saratoga NY and just moved back from Boston where I lived for 6 years. My new house has some nice land and I hope to build a chicken coop this summer and get some fabulous fowl to fill it!

However, right now I really need some help. I have a lonely male button quail. His "wife" and he had 4 sets of babies over the last two years and I found new homes for all the babies. Now I wish that I had kept some. Last fall, my little guy lost his lover and has been so so lonely ever since. I'm listening to him call out for a mate right now. Ever since then I've been desperately searching for a new mate for him. Ideally I'd like two females of the same age as eachother, so when he goes, they won't be lonely, but all I seem to find are males...and they fight. Does anyone know anyone in the Saratoga/Albany area that has button quails that would be willing to sell me a female or two? I have a large a beautiful enclosure for them and a little gourd house, which is where my previous female hatched out her eggs and take good care of my birds.

If anyone knows anyone who breeds button quails...please let me know! My poor guy has lonely long enough.

Thank you so much!!

-Crystal

and to the NY thread. Happyhensny has quail. Not sure what kind tho.. She will be around later today (if she isn't running around, it is monday) You might want to PM her and ask, in case she misses your post. (To PM someone, find a post by them, hover your mouse pointer over their name and it will show a menu, with PM being one of the choices. PM = Private message)

Featherz is thinking of rehoming a whole coop of laying hens. Not sure how much she wants for them, just know she needs the space for the chicks of the breeds she really wants.... I have 2 of her hens and they are WONDERFUL and friendly and sweet. Not sure what she feeds them, but they are the BIGGEST hens I have ever seen (and they are NOT jersey giants) They intimidate my alpha roo, which cracks me up....worth it just for the entertainment value of seeing him looking over his shoulder all the time.


Happyhensny is near Albany, Featherz is near Saratoga.

 

[Jackeltree]

Thank you so so much Cass! I'm going to PM her. Keeping my fingers crossed that she has button quails!

And I would certainly be interested in any laying hens...but I'm not sure when we'll get the coop made. So it will probably be a few months before I'm ready for then. Until then I don't have any place to put them. My parent's have a fabulous old chicken coop built in the 1700's. A few aracauna's live there now. I'm hoping to model my coop after theirs. One question...when I was a kid with chickens of my own, I never had to worry about them getting into the road, because we lived down a long dirt driveway no where near a road. My house now is kinda close to a busy road. There is a good buffer of trees and shrubs between the house and the road...so much that you can barely see through it, but I'm worried about the chickens getting in the road. I'll put the coop in the back of the house away from the road, but I'd like to let my chickens out during the day so they can roam around the yard...is there a good way to keep them within certain boundaries without building a fence? Particularly to keep them from roaming near the road? My parent's chickens always just stayed in the yard or the barn, even though they would have had plenty of room to roam further out...I never really understood why they stayed close...

Thank you so much for your help!

-Crystal

 

[greymane]

Jackeltree, I have quail also, but only Coturnix. I will ask around.

Here is a picture of the "fart" egg I mentioned earlier. (Shown with Cayuga, Red Star, Silkie and Polish eggs.)

 

[My Henny Hens]

Love your eggs, Greymane! I love a pretty egg basket!!!

Jackeltree, I have quail also, but only Coturnix. I will ask around.

Here is a picture of the "fart" egg I mentioned earlier. (Shown with Cayuga, Red Star, Silkie and Polish eggs.)