That’s it I’m done...

[L1sa]

I've never been able to move one of my broodies successfully. They always seem to either refuse to sit on the new nest or find their way back to the old nest and the whole thing stresses them out.

However, my hatching success rate doing it that way is not great. I currently have one sitting on the remaining 2 eggs from 6. Some have been broken, some have been pushed out and some collected by mistake by me!! All in all a bit of a disaster. I'm hopeful the remaining 2 will hatch, but I'm hoping to add day old chicks to the brood too, to plump it out!

I bought myself a large old rabbit hutch yesterday that I'm going to put in the run for mum and chicks once they've hatched. And then I have a seperate brooder for next time one goes broody and I am determined to move her before I set her some fertile eggs!!

Good luck.

 

[mixedbreeds]

I have always made a place for the broody that they can’t get out of like the dog cages this year or I normally have a grow out pen I set up with a nest box so they can’t leave. I don’t think they would leave though because when I bring them in I hold them facing the nest till they lock onto the eggs when I let go it’s like they are on a bungee cord they zoom straight to the eggs and plop down on them. I normally wait till they have been broody for at least a week.

 

[Crs1]

She is in place and locked up. With food and water. She was fussing with me til I put her on the ground and she went straight to the eggs. I feel better not having to worry about which nest she will pick next

Thank you for all the advice
Connie

 

[L1sa]

Well done, it's a great decision to move her. Wish I'd have done it earlier!! Good luck with the hatch.

 

[aart]

I feel better not having to worry about which nest she will pick next

She'll feel better too, not being harassed by other birds.
Is she still in sight of flock?

 

[Crs1]

Yes she is in the coop under the nest boxes so they come in and out all day