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[scottcaddy]

HEY YA'LL!!!!! How is everyone doing? We are on spring break this week so me and the kids are painting pictures today! We just got done feeding all the new babies lol took so long! Do any of ya'll have any tips on how to make a hen go broody?

Tell them that you need more eggs so you can sell them for big money to buy more hen treats!

Scott

 

[chickensnewtome]

Tell them that you need more eggs so you can sell them for big money to buy more hen treats!

Scott

if only that would work!

 

[chickisoup]

It's mother nature. Sometimes you can help them get the idea by leaving a clutch of eggs in a nest (sometimes even fake ones will catch their interest) other than that, it's up to mother nature

Camping??? We have the kids and grandkids come up and camp on our back forty. We laugh at all the "migraters" every summer pulling all their trailers with their trucks loaded so full of "stuff" they can't see, to get away from civilization and then complain because their cellphones won't work!

Come Memorial Day weekend, we can always tell the locals from the weekenders, snow birds and cabiners. The locals are wearing short sleeves and the "visitors" are either bundled up in coats (the smart ones) or they're literally raiding all the rummage sales for sweatshirts and sweaters

Living in "God's country" can sometimes be entertaining.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote:

Can you carry a tune? Sing her the Broody Song from Les Oeufs::

​

Can you hear the broody sing?
Screaming the song of angry hens.
It's the sound of a broody that will not be "broke" again!
As she huddles on her nest,
As she growls, and fluffs, and picks,
You can tell she's made up her mind to raise some chicks.

Not the top roo in the henhouse,
Not a goat, nor sheep, nor cow.
Nothing can disrupt the broody,
Even if they did know how.
She's determined to raise her some chickies, she's doing it now!

Can you hear the broody sing?
Screaming the song of angry hens.
It's the sound of a broody who will not be "broke" again!
As she huddles on her nest,
As she growls, and fluffs, and picks,
You can tell she's made up her mind to raise some chicks.

In chicken coop and backyard,
In barns across the land.
Broody hens have all decided,
To sit down, and take a stand.
The moment of raising a new generation's at hand!

Can you hear the broody sing?
Screaming the song of angry hens.
It's the sound of a broody that will not be "broke" again!
As she huddles on her nest,
As she growls, and fluffs, and picks,
You can tell she's made up her mind to raise some chicks.

After all the days of sitting,
The time of hatching is now near.
You can hear them softly tapping,
Muffled cheeping fills the air.
Their pipping, unzipping, and pushing and drying,
THEY"RE HERE!!!

Can you hear the broody sing?
Screaming the song of angry hens.
It's the sound of a broody that could not be "broke" again.
As she shepherds her new peeps,
As she growl, and fluffs, and picks,
You can tell she's made up her mind to raise those chicks!
Seriously, I'm not sure anyone has come up with a sure-fire way to inspire the hens. Having a breed that tends to do it helps (Silkies and Cochins tend to go broody if they even find two pieces of gravel next to each other), though even the odd hen from a generally non-setting breed can go broody.

I would think that having nest boxes that are reasonably secluded, and only a few hens using them, might help, as might having a good amount of nesting material in them. Having some dummy eggs that you can leave together in a nest could help too (I don't think I'd risk real eggs, since a lot of egg eaters get started that way).

 

[chickensnewtome]

Can you carry a tune? Sing her the Broody Song from Les Oeufs::

​

Can you hear the broody sing?
Screaming the song of angry hens.
It's the sound of a broody that will not be "broke" again!
As she huddles on her nest,
As she growls, and fluffs, and picks,
You can tell she's made up her mind to raise some chicks.

Not the top roo in the henhouse,
Not a goat, nor sheep, nor cow.
Nothing can disrupt the broody,
Even if they did know how.
She's determined to raise her some chickies, she's doing it now!

Can you hear the broody sing?
Screaming the song of angry hens.
It's the sound of a broody who will not be "broke" again!
As she huddles on her nest,
As she growls, and fluffs, and picks,
You can tell she's made up her mind to raise some chicks.

In chicken coop and backyard,
In barns across the land.
Broody hens have all decided,
To sit down, and take a stand.
The moment of raising a new generation's at hand!

Can you hear the broody sing?
Screaming the song of angry hens.
It's the sound of a broody that will not be "broke" again!
As she huddles on her nest,
As she growls, and fluffs, and picks,
You can tell she's made up her mind to raise some chicks.

After all the days of sitting,
The time of hatching is now near.
You can hear them softly tapping,
Muffled cheeping fills the air.
Their pipping, unzipping, and pushing and drying,
THEY"RE HERE!!!

Can you hear the broody sing?
Screaming the song of angry hens.
It's the sound of a broody that could not be "broke" again.
As she shepherds her new peeps,
As she growl, and fluffs, and picks,
You can tell she's made up her mind to raise those chicks!
Seriously, I'm not sure anyone has come up with a sure-fire way to inspire the hens. Having a breed that tends to do it helps (Silkies and Cochins tend to go broody if they even find two pieces of gravel next to each other), though even the odd hen from a generally non-setting breed can go broody.

I would think that having nest boxes that are reasonably secluded, and only a few hens using them, might help, as might having a good amount of nesting material in them. Having some dummy eggs that you can leave together in a nest could help too (I don't think I'd risk real eggs, since a lot of egg eaters get started that way). ​

That is an awesome song!!! LOL! I was really hoping that out of the grown chickens I have, which include: Buff Orpington, Barred Rock, Road Island reds, and a red hen with a star in her name, i cant recall her breed, I was hoping one of them would go broody, but I have 8 bantam chicks that include 2 cochins and a silkie that are my back ups for next year lol. I think when it gets warm enough at night for the eggs to not freeze that I will go ahead and leave some in a nest box and try that.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I seem to have several penedesencas go broody every year. Once I had 7 out of 8 pullets all go broody in a community nest right after they started laying. What a disaster.

I'm surprised I don't have any yet this year. A couple weeks ago there was one acting snotty on the nest at dusk so I thought I had one but went back after dark and she was on the roost.

It's up to 32 right now and climbing. I'm so excited. Long range forecast shows no more hard freezes this spring.
I'm getting all the auto water set up today.

Tra-la-la, no more carrying water. Can you hear the melody?

 

[chickensnewtome]

I seem to have several penedesencas go broody every year. Once I had 7 out of 8 pullets all go broody in a community nest right after they started laying. What a disaster.

I'm surprised I don't have any yet this year. A couple weeks ago there was one acting snotty on the nest at dusk so I thought I had one but went back after dark and she was on the roost.

It's up to 32 right now and climbing. I'm so excited. Long range forecast shows no more hard freezes this spring.
I'm getting all the auto water set up today.

Tra-la-la, no more carrying water. Can you hear the melody?

AINT THAT THE TRUTH!!!! Last night was the last night of below 32 for atleast a month here. We tilled up the garden yesterday and I can't wait for planting!

 

[insanity]

You guys are killing me with all this garden talk. Around here we can't plant for at least a few more weeks and we will still need to cover it a couple times at night. The new raised beds my hubby put out are taunting me.

 

[chickensnewtome]

You guys are killing me with all this garden talk. Around here we can't plant for at least a few more weeks and we will still need to cover it a couple times at night. The new raised beds my hubby put out are taunting me.

I am so inpatient! I have onions in the raised bed growing already, and spring crops will go in next week. I could not wait any longer then that. You could start your plants inside to supress the gardening anxiety insanity!

 

[insanity]

We all do starts indoors up here. It's the only way to get crops with more than 90 day grow times. This year I'm cheating and buying my starts.