Uh, oh...No, Sunny, not NOW!!!

[hcammack]

well I guess this is an early warning sign hope she doesn't stick for your sake and hers.

Henry

 

[MissPrissy]

I would give her a few eggs - want some, Cyn????

 

[pips&peeps]

Cyn,

If she doesn't get off the nest today, put her in a wire cage. Leave her there on the cold, hard wire for a couple days and let her out, but watch her carefully. Put her back in at the first signs of going broody again.

It's just not the right time of year to go broody.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, the good news is that she's not sticking to a nest. She did lay yesterday, too. The first time she went broody, we didnt even have a rooster, so we tried to break her up by doing just what you mentioned, Jean. That girl defied every effort we made and sat the entire 21 days, then she started twitching and couldnt keep her balance and we began emergency measures to keep get her back-Vitamin E squeezed into her mouth and syringes of water. She was just so messed up in her head the first time. She went broody the following spring and raised chicks beautifully, but this year, I haven't had her go broody at all. I hope she'll just skip this year and wait till spring. I'm checking on her when I go back out to the coop. She's been off the nest and back on several times already, no broody war cries, though, so maybe she's just keeping out of everyone's way.

 

[CarriBrown]

HURRY! Time to get some BLRW eggs!

 

[speckledhen]

Well, we'll see. That crazy Sunny was on and off nest literally all day long. I think she's working up to broody, though she isn't there yet. She did lay an egg today, left the nest, then went back again.

 

[seriousbill]

*cough*Delawares*cough*

 

[speckledhen]

Need a cough drop, Janet, LOL? Well, I tell you, when I allow a broody to sit, and I really, really want to wait till at least Feb/March, I'll be calling that person with that terrible cough.

 

[seriousbill]

 

[Omran]

I like buff orp and two days ago I went and got abot 20 chicks 13 of the buff orp, because I really want one hen at least to go broody.
I have 6 RIR 3 SILVER LACED WYNDOTT, 1 Barred rock. and evry one told me that my ten hens will never sit, so I decided to get enough hens to see some cute chicks.



Omran.