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[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: Oh yeah that's like an invite !!!! And I see ya gots ya some breeds dat may bees fun to has.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

If it wasn't bad enough that my brahma went broody (two weeks for chicks for her), I have a couple more of my layers thinking about it now.

And the one silkie that had started laying is now broody. She made it 16 eggs. I don't think the cockerel knows what he's doing yet. but I let her have the last few eggs. We'll see if any are fertile in a few days. I can always give her a chick or two from the brahma's clutch.

Chickens are making me want to pull my hair out. lol

IF You really want to I have heard there are ways to break a broody!!!! Put her in a wire bottom cage and hang it so it moves. After a couple days she should no longer be broody. That is what I have been told.

 

[Teva]

One of my blue EE's went broody for a week, enough so that we found quite a few EE eggs in the old growth tree stump, they didn't want to lay in the coop! So I put her in my mini-coop, where she lasted one day. She was up and running around squaking the next day. No more broody!

 

[Chubby Chicken]

I have a BC Marans that just started laying again the other day. We moved everybody to a huge coop, and in the morning she came out with the others.

I didn't have the heart for the bird cage treatment. Not because she would be on wire, I understand the air flow underneath, and not being able to nest, but because I have known chickens that had heart attacks from being near a hawk attack. I just picture raccoons playing pinata.

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

Apparently I've upset some BYC people. No idea why or what I did, but rumors abound

I'd like to join back in here unless there are any objections.

 

[KMHunter]

Apparently I've upset some BYC people. No idea why or what I did, but rumors abound

I'd like to join back in here unless there are any objections.

None from me. I didn't hear any rumors. And I don't pay any attention to them.

Welcome Back!!!

 

[VelvettFog]

IF You really want to I have heard there are ways to break a broody!!!! Put her in a wire bottom cage and hang it so it moves. After a couple days she should no longer be broody. That is what I have been told.

I have great success breaking my broodies with wire bottom cage. I don't hang it tho. I took some plans for a quail hutch I made for Rainwolf and adjusted them a bit. I have a 2'x8' 'hutch' that has 4 separate 'cells'. Broody hens go in there and two or three days later I let them back into gen-pop. So far that has cured them. Oh -- the do kinda freak out the first time you set them down on the wire floor -- suspended 2' off the ground. So maybe the key (considering CR's post about hanging the cage) is that you need the floor of the cage a few feet (or more) off the ground.


PS - does anyone else use prison vernacular to describe their chicken set up? I have a 'compound' - general population - jail - solitary confinement - infirmary - exercise yard - juvenile detention

 

[Chubby Chicken]

Apparently I've upset some BYC people. No idea why or what I did, but rumors abound

I'd like to join back in here unless there are any objections.

You're my favorite person on here. I wondered why I don't see you chiming in so much. You are my best enabler. I have an EMPTY coop, but thanks to you, it won't be for long!

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

You're my favorite person on here. I wondered why I don't see you chiming in so much. You are my best enabler. I have an EMPTY coop, but thanks to you, it won't be for long!

I got chickens a-brewing for ya!

 

[Imp]

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I just increased my run size, a couple weeks ago. (chainlink) When I got done all I could think of is it looks like a prison. So I had to pretty it up a bit.

Russ- I'll take a pic today and post later.