The mamma of all hens! ( the most broody hen in the world! )

[Splinky01]

Hello and thanks for taking the time to read my post!
I am new to breeding chickens ( quite by accident) but have enjoyed it this past year! I had quite a few broodys over the summer! However I have a serama cross who at 8 months in May has continued to hatch and lay clutches the entire year! Her last hatched in early November and she has started another clutch now in Late Dec! I thought she had been eaten by a fox but her ghost appeared and we then traced her nest! She is very clever and leaves the chicken coop and freeranging area to hide her clutch in some very interesting places! The new one is under an old bed put out for rubbish! I’m taking a couple of eggs away every day to try and stop her getting enough to sit on. Do you think this will work? ! If I take them all she will start again in a new place which I might not find!! She does make me laugh! She also has 3 cockerels that she moves between which all show a caring protective side over her and her nests! Does she win the most broody hen competition?!

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

Hello and thanks for taking the time to read my post!
I am new to breeding chickens ( quite by accident) but have enjoyed it this past year! I had quite a few broodys over the summer! However I have a serama cross who at 8 months in May has continued to hatch and lay clutches the entire year! Her last hatched in early November and she has started another clutch now in Late Dec! I thought she had been eaten by a fox but her ghost appeared and we then traced her nest! She is very clever and leaves the chicken coop and freeranging area to hide her clutch in some very interesting places! The new one is under an old bed put out for rubbish! I’m taking a couple of eggs away every day to try and stop her getting enough to sit on. Do you think this will work? ! If I take them all she will start again in a new place which I might not find!! She does make me laugh! She also has 3 cockerels that she moves between which all show a caring protective side over her and her nests! Does she win the most broody hen competition?!

She is soooooooo sweet. What breed is she?

 

[Amer]

She is soooooooo sweet. What breed is she?

Serama cross

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

Serama cross

Sweet she’s cute. I love her

 

[Abriana]

I had a bantam hen (named Bantam) that went broody every two months for two years. She laid under 100 eggs in her entire lifetime because she always went broody so quickly she could never lay more than eight in between chick batches. She hatched out four large normal sized chicken eggs each time, some didn't make it, but most times I had great hatch rates. Last thursday she had just finished with her babies the day before. I let her out of the little run where she normally stays, and in the evening I came home and she was dead, all of her neck was gone, only bone was left, and part of her chest. I felt so awful, but she will be remembered as a great mama. Hopefully your girl brings you as much joy as little Bantam did in her short lifetime

 

[aart]

I’m taking a couple of eggs away every day to try and stop her getting enough to sit on. Do you think this will work?

Maybe, maybe not.....she might go find another place.
I had a bird go broody like 10 times over about 9 months.
I let her hatch once, broke her the other times, finally gave her away.

 

[Splinky01]

Went on holiday so she had to be cooped up and that seems to have done the trick. She’s now living with the other hens and staying in their enclosure most of the time only venturing out to eat my pansies! She has decided to sleep in a conifer tree though now I’m back and let her out! There are 4 others inc 3 of her children that are doing the same!