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Im going to bed because DH has to travel for work tomorrow and said turn out the light!
But I wanted to say I sure hope @Smuvers Farm either did something really fun today or is lurking somewhere nearby.

I missed your smiling, spunky, spirit here today.
Sure hoping you'll come back tomorrow.

Love to all.
Stacey
 
Redhead Rae said:
Yeah but as Cap said, she'll keep sitting, eating and not laying. I had one Dominique and a Dom/buff cross go broody this spring. Even though I didn't have any eggs I really wanted to hatch (the only mature roo I had at the time was a leghorn cross I kept around to guard the hens and maintain order) I let the Dom/Buff hatch out some eggs. She was a lovely broody. She squealed when I touched her, but was a determined sitter and never offered to bite me. The Dominique was another story. She nest hopped and tried to take chunks out of my hand. I REFUSE to let a broody that attacks me have eggs. I've heard that they tend to become more protective when the eggs hatch. Plus, with the nest hopping, I doubt she would have been able to hatch a clutch anyway. So I broke her, it took FOREVER.
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Oh I have only had two broody hens and both let me lift them to check the eggs and both were good mommys.
 
staceyj said:
Thank you.
I try to be good hearted about it. But it is a little bit of a pain because I have to watch two of the other girls who are downright mean to her. One will walk by like she's not paying any attention to her at all, then at the last second she'll grab her by the wing and try to fling her into the pool!
I swear they want to drown her.
Those two birds who aren't mean at all EXCEPT when Dory is broody are SICK. TO. DEATH of the clucking, and the growling, and the screeching, and the turkeyfluffingbuttupintheair
Lololol

@TexasSam , I'm counting on my fingers now.
She reached pol around the Fourth of July. Laid for a month, went broody. Except I didn't understand what was going on until a week or so into it because I didn't know it could happen to such a young bird.
That interrupted laying for another 6 weeks or more.
Broody again mid October- broke that one in ten days with her in the house during the day over top of the ac vent in the bathroom.
Another interruption... might have gotten back to laying for a couple of weeks (and she was SOOOOOO happy with herself!)
Then BOOM right back to where we started from!
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I just remembered you don't have a rooster. If you like her and want to keep her break her from broody. My silky x when she is broody she is a boss and runs the others away even the bigger girls and she is small almost bantam size
 
Redhead Rae said:
I'm off. I just got the milk drinker to sleep and that means it is time for me to go to bed as well so I can have dreams of wiggly chicks dancing in my head.

Good night all!
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Good night Stacey and Rae. Have a wonderful nights sleep!
 
TexasSam said:
I might have to talk to you come spring I've been thinking about a vegetable garden
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I started late this year. I still have cauliflower , cabbage, peas and carrots out there if they are not frozen solid! Time to order seed catalogues to look over. Choose your spot and dump manure on top to rot until spring.
 

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