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[Chubby Chicken]

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

 

[Hinotori]

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.

Welcome back with us. Ignore people who get all bent out of shape over a forum where they can't tell tone or intent.

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 didn't try breaking the brahma. It's made her more friendly. There are 11 eggs going good under her and I'll share out a few of the chicks if I need to. The EEs that keep thinking they may want to go broody are easily distracted. I just kick them off the nest and toss some treats out and that's it. Treats win usually. Had one determined one a few months ago that I put my new brahmas under and let her raise for me. Was good timing on her part. Feed store got them in a few weeks after she went broody.

The little silkie is the only one who's actually supposed to have been going broody. I like the chicks raised by or with silkies. Makes them nicer to other birds. She's wanted to set eggs since last week but I kept picking up the eggs. She tried sitting on just the nest but it didn't feel right so she would leave and go out with the others. She's the favorite target of the little cockerel since she's the only one who had started laying. I think I may give her some eggs just because he leaves her alone when she's in there.

I can't wait to see the colors I get from those EE eggs. They should all lay blue eggs for me.

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

Welcome back with us. Ignore people who get all bent out of shape over a forum where they can't tell tone or intent.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

 

[Greg Richardson]

With Broodies if you have a milk crate stick them in that.
Some take a day, some take three days.
You need to have it off the ground.
Not only off the ground but high enough up that the other chickens can't pick on it.
One time I went out there to find one jumping up pecking through the crate.
So placed another crate under it and good to go.

You can try first taking them off the nest sticking them outside and maybe you get lucky.
None of mine have ever quit they get drink of water maybe some food and right back to the nest.

 

[hallerlake]

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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.

I have the chain link runs. I call them egg production communes one and two. They have that gulag look to them.

 

[hallerlake]

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.

Darn! I missed the rumors. Were they good and juicy?

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

Darn! I missed the rumors. Were they good and juicy?

 

[pettec63]

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What she said!

 

[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.

I have the chain link runs. I call them egg production communes one and two. They have that gulag look to them.
That they do. Lol.
I went and took a picture. Not completely done yet, but mostly. All my beds are edged with rocks, so I'll do that with the run as well. There are a couple extra gates sitting in the run. They were given to me by a neighbor. Don't think I have a use for them. I saw something similar on BYC a couple years ago. Looks way less like a gulag now.

 

[hallerlake]

I'm having trouble posting pictures. I click "insert Image". I click "browse", and find my picture on my camera. I click "open", but then, there's no "submit" button to click. What am I doing wrong?