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[NanaKat]

Try putting your hen in a cage with a wire bottom with no nesting material. Just feed and water. She needs to cool off and a few days in the cage should break her. Literally cool off. The vent is warmer when a hen is broodie.

MIL says that her mother put them in a toe sack hung from the clothesline for a day or two to break them but I think they need the air circulation along with food and water

I have five hens right now trying to brood with nothing in the nest box...taking up room for those who are laying. I've tossed them out to freerange and they keep running back to the nest boxes. So I'm hanging up some cages todayin the hen house. MIL said it may take the same number of days they have been broodie. She advised that large fowl can go broodie every 15-18 eggs laid.

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Thanks Ksane. But those aren't mixed ,they are pure Icelandic fowl. If you like a colorful flock you should check them out. You can have a variety of colors,combs,feathered legs or not! You never know what may crop out. But you have to to be very diligent and totally honnest in their breeding because as you can see mixed breeds can be passed off as them. They are great layers of white eggs and very broody also. And did I say rare! So far I am the only one that I can find out who has them in Tennessee! Their are a few in Okla,Greybear has some and I think Teach does.

 

[sixshooter60]

My day is getting better! Looking forward to lunch!

Anyone ever grown sorghum? If you have tell me your thoughts.

It depends on what you plan on doing with it.. Feed? Hay ? Silage? or molasses

 

[Guinea and Chicken raiser]

You must be talking to someone else? I have no skinny chickens, well except 1, but he has a reason to be that way and still produces beyond that fault..
is this Robert? if so yep yours are fat and healthy.. mine are just small and solid..

okay. i was talking with you but yeah your one skinny chicken is the one i'm talking about. haha... it's all good. I'm not Robert. I am a girl. I have pics of my chickens on my profile on this site. Well mine are average excect I always have one or two that are fat chicken hens. mine are all solid and healthy. Brownie Girl used to be the fat one who hogs food. Now it was Laghkeisha till she dissappeared two weeks ago and never came back. Now there is no food hog... but sorta Bella is trying to be the top female chicken. I have pics of my chickens on Default album with their names.

 

[Sooner]

It depends on what you plan on doing with it.. Feed? Hay ? Silage? or molasses

Molasses but feel free to tell me about the others too!

 

[Ksane]

I've had one problem after another integrating chickens, they're just mean girls lol I think it'd be real difficult to try to put one (or more) in with her and have them get along. Someone's bound to get picked on. Strange as it sounds I've read in different places where people in your situation put a rabbit or guinea pig in with the handicapped chicken. Would something like that work?
That said though........my Silkie girls are literally the only ones I can put anyone in with and they won't get picked on. That's where my tiny OEGB pullet is going to go, her own kind beat her up. Check craigs list and see if you can find a really young one, like 3 months or something. That would work out I bet.

Try putting your hen in a cage with a wire bottom with no nesting material. Just feed and water. She needs to cool off and a few days in the cage should break her. Literally cool off. The vent is warmer when a hen is broodie.
MIL says that her mother put them in a toe sack hung from the clothesline for a day or two to break them but I think they need the air circulation along with food and water
I have five hens right now trying to brood with nothing in the nest box...taking up room for those who are laying. I've tossed them out to freerange and they keep running back to the nest boxes. So I'm hanging up some cages todayin the hen house. MIL said it may take the same number of days they have been broodie. She advised that large fowl can go broodie every 15-18 eggs laid.

Oh my. I can't see me being able to hang them in a sack from the clothesline

Her and her broody sister are in an 8x8 pen together now with a rooster who's really nice to them and no one else is in that pen. I guess I wouldn't really need to build them a separate area except for the fact I was concerned the rooster might hurt the babies when they hatch, do roosters normally hurt the babies? After they hatch (if they do) maybe I'll get lucky and she'll get over it. I doubt it though. She's been doing this since her very 1st egg last Nov or so. She's have to stay in a cage for months lol

Thanks Ksane. But those aren't mixed ,they are pure Icelandic fowl. If you like a colorful flock you should check them out. You can have a variety of colors,combs,feathered legs or not! You never know what may crop out. But you have to to be very diligent and totally honnest in their breeding because as you can see mixed breeds can be passed off as them. They are great layers of white eggs and very broody also. And did I say rare! So far I am the only one that I can find out who has them in Tennessee! Their are a few in Okla,Greybear has some and I think Teach does.

I would love something like that, but how would you know if they were purebred or not if they can look that different? Shoot, with all these LF and bantam Cochins the last thing I need is another broody breed

 

[sixshooter60]

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[Sooner]

Thank you! Just told me what I had been reading. It is just something new to reserch & read about......not a plan of action yet. It does indeed look like alot of work. I would rather just tap tree's but can't seem to find any around here.

 

[jcatblum]

Why is it when you think you don't need anything else the mail lady brings more poultry catalogs?? Strombergs new book has me thinking I need lots of stuff now!

 

[jcatblum]

Sooner I don't think it gets cold enough to tap trees here, at least if I recall what I read correctly. Would love to get maple syrup out of the back yard!!!!! But amazon will have to keep shipping it to me instead.