Silence Is Not Golden Here

[jwyles]

You don't need a rooster for her to have gone broody in the woods.

So true! No Roos here and TONS of broodies!

 

[Conan]

Nice @honanbm! What a wealth of info you are! I hope you're right here.

I am so borderline ignorant when it comes to chickens that I'm amazed that I even remembered about that little detail from the article that I read here on BYC!

Edited to add: I hope that the water was the problem.

 

[jwyles]

I am so borderline ignorant when it comes to chickens that I'm amazed that I even remembered about that little detail from the article that I read here on BYC!

Edited to add: I hope that the water was the problem.

We all learn what we know from somewhere. Im still giving you high five!

 

[Cyprus]

This is the worst Friday the 13th EVER!! The whole week has been cursed! Was she confined and now you can't find her or was she free ranging?

She was free ranging.
She's a hatchery BJG. Not sure that breed goes broody.
We don't have woods here. Just cornfields, bushes, and a few low hanging pines.

 

[Cyprus]

There was also something that got into the eggs the girls laid in the run. They were hidden so I'm not sure how long ago that happened.

I think the fox struck again. Or she got hit by a car. Or attacked by a dog. She was dumb and went in the road and on my neighbor's lawn (they have mastifs and woods)

We also have large ish hawks but she would have been big for hawk prey.

 

[jwyles]

She was free ranging.
She's a hatchery BJG. Not sure that breed goes broody.
We don't have woods here. Just cornfields, bushes, and a few low hanging pines.

I'm not sure if they do in general but in theory any hen could. I hope she's holed up somewhere and shows back up with babies for ya! That would certainly make this week better right? You haven't had anymore get sick have you?

 

[Cyprus]

I'm not sure if they do in general but in theory any hen could. I hope she's holed up somewhere and shows back up with babies for ya! That would certainly make this week better right? You haven't had anymore get sick have you?

She is not with a rooster.
Nobody else is sick.

 

[Cyprus]

Also we lost power an hour ago and the littles are outside during their first thunderstorm.
The incubator is running on reserve heat. I've given up on the eggs pretty much.

 

[jwyles]

She is not with a rooster.
Nobody else is sick.

Oh yeah I forgot about the no roo part... but hey that ms good!!! No one else sick

 

[jwyles]

Also we lost power an hour ago and the littles are outside during their first thunderstorm.
The incubator is running on reserve heat. I've given up on the eggs pretty much.

Do you live around farm fields?

Or have old hay bales around?