Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[BullChick]

After six weeks, she cannot go another three. Unless you are going to hand feed her, it’s at the point she needs broken.

 

[AllenK RGV]

After six weeks, she cannot go another three. Unless you are going to hand feed her, it’s at the point she needs broken.

Doing my best, have been cooking everyone's eggs up for her(you really don't want to see those poops). I want her to be broken, but if I seal off her primary nest spot she tries to get to the secondary egg laying spot for our chicken.

I really need some good advice? Do Ice cubes really work?












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[Molpet]

Doing my best, have been cooking everyone's eggs up for her(you really don't want to see those poops). I want her to be broken, but if I seal off her primary nest spot she tries to get to the secondary egg laying spot for our chicken.

I really need some good advice? Do Ice cubes really work?












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put her in a secure wire dog crate on blocks so the air gets under her... no bedding, a 2x4 to sit on .. food and water....
ice didn't work for me.

 

[Flowerbh]

Help my broody won't stop. I just locked her out of the dog pen she decided was her spot. Of course before she set in it was the favorite egg laying spot. However after 6 weeks of broodieness you know nothing is viable. I am hoping she will rejoin the flock and be a normal chicken. If at sundown she doesn't I imagine I need to allow her back into her broody nest.

Does anyone have resources or links to shoot my way?

To brake a broody, you need to put her in a crate with no bedding in it. She needs to be in a place where her hind end can stay cool. After a few days by herself in a crate, she will stop being broody.

 

[nchls school]

 

[1cock2hens]

ok, thats just adorable

 

[nchls school]

Oddly enough, the little rooster spends most of his time sitting on the edge of the tub. The hen has six eggs; I'm wondering what the rooster's reaction will be when the eggs hatch.


I have several broody hens already. Everybody will be brooding turkey eggs.

 

[1cock2hens]

some roosters are awesome with chicks, very protective and giving. I think it is a good sign that he is already so attentive. My hens never let a rooster close enough to find out how good they are with chicks.

 

[BullChick]

some roosters are awesome with chicks, very protective and giving. I think it is a good sign that he is already so attentive. My hens never let a rooster close enough to find out how good they are with chicks.

I had two hens co-brood. The day they brought the babies out, my head roo ran over, and taught them to scratch around.

 

[nchls school]

some roosters are awesome with chicks, very protective and giving. I think it is a good sign that he is already so attentive. My hens never let a rooster close enough to find out how good they are with chicks.

He's a serama bantam. All the serama roosters I have had have been good with chicks, but this is the first one to be so attentive while the hen is brooding.