White Leghorn gone broody!!

[chickenwoods]

She slep on nest yesterday,and set on nest all day today,,went to pick her up to pet her,and her brest was bald!! shes a white leghorn!!! i stashed some more eggs under her today!! Hope she stays put,i cant wait to see what my chicks will look like!!

 

[silkiechicken]

Best of luck. Don't forget to mark the eggs you set and make sure no new eggs show up in her nest. Don't want half developed eggs!

 

[SpottedCrow]

I guess she didn't read the Leghorn's don't go broody book either.

 

[wynedot55]

every now an then youll have a non broody breed go broody.an your leghorn decided she wanted tobe broody.

 

[chickenwoods]

Still on the nest!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant wait!!

 

[chickenwoods]

Shes a very docile bird,but if i pick her up everyday to get the unmarked eggs out from unda her will it distract her from being broody? i really dont want to mess her up!This is her second spring, I have broody breed birds but none of them have gone before..i want little chicks..

When i approach her she really doesnt puff up or peck or nothing, like my other hens.but shes always been nice....but do you think other birds will get in theyre with her and lay eggs?

 

[fivebigreds]

I have a white leghorn that went part broody , she never sat on the nest but, when she was laying she would puff up at me. when she finished laying she would take spells calling her imagionary chicks and dareing the other hens to get close to them. That lasted about a week and i guess she thinks they can make it on their own now.

 

[scgamecock]

I have a buttercup hen sitting right now and I didn't think they were the motherly type but I guess she didn't read the book.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

That is so cool!!! I would love to have someone go broody. The closest I have come was my EE......she got all nasty and refused to give up her egg....gave me that "don't you dare touch my baby" look. She sat on it a whopping 5 minutes, got up, looked at it like "hmmmm......must be a dud" and left.

 

[cjeanean]

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