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Saw this on the Texas thread and thought it so funny I just had to share it, lol
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AmyLynn2374 said:
My hens (pullets actually) refuse the nesting boxes and have one spot against the wall that they ALL prefer to lay. The eggs stay clean and I know where they are, so I've let them. Next spring I am redoing the nesting boxes and going to attempt once more to get them to use them. I do plan on moving her to the kennel once they hatch-thought about trying again tomorrow since moving her at night didn't work but I don't know. Maybe I'll go back out and try. My original girls in my first coop were/are the same way. They would only use one nesting box and all 8 would lay there.
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I would try either moving her or blocking them away til chicks are hatched... my best broody allows the others to lay where she sits too and her first hatch 2 chicks got trampled halfway out of the shell cuz she still moved for them in mid hatch... now I move her before they pip and put her back once chicks are mobile...
 
RavynFallen said:
I would try either moving her or blocking them away til chicks are hatched... my best broody allows the others to lay where she sits too and her first hatch 2 chicks got trampled halfway out of the shell cuz she still moved for them in mid hatch... now I move her before they pip and put her back once chicks are mobile...
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My first broody moved to the cage a couple days before cause the second broody kicked her off the nest and even now 2 weeks later she takes the babies back into the open cage at bedtime. It's so cute.

Good news! I just went back out and tried the move her again and she's so out of it that she let me move her to the kennel and stayed on the eggs! I was able to shut her in. I just hope when she wakes up in the morning she doesn't get all upset and stressed and not sit. They should be externally pipping by morning-noon I would think.
 
AmyLynn2374 said:
My first broody moved to the cage a couple days before cause the second broody kicked her off the nest and even now 2 weeks later she takes the babies back into the open cage at bedtime. It's so cute. 

Good news! I just went back out and tried the move her again and she's so out of it that she let me move her to the kennel and stayed on the eggs! I was able to shut her in. I just hope when she wakes up in the morning she doesn't get all upset and stressed and not sit. They should be externally pipping by morning-noon I would think.
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Yay!! Well, since they're internally pipped hopefully their little cheeps will keep her focused on them and not the kennel... :D
 

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