Why Did My Chicken Sit On The Eggs For Like 15 Seconds Then Went Out Of Her Nest??

[chickengeorgeto]

Yeah they like to sit on eggs... after they are done laying. Not necessarily because they are broody but because they just like to!... We have an old Leghorn who stopped laying eggs... but she loves to sit on eggs still.... The younger ladies are not very appreciative of her clucking and pushing them out of the nest boxes.

I have been around tens of 1,000s of white leghorn hens going back 70 years and in that time I have never seen, heard, or known of a white leghorn hen, sitting, clucking, incubating, brooding, or in any way acting in a mothering way. There are some white hens who will sit but they are not white leghorns or at least pure whiteleghorns, though I can't speak for all hens who may have some unknown amount of leghorn DNA.. Instead I suspect that your old hen... has lumbago and she wanted to sit down for a spell and rest her aching bones.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

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ll she's not broody people ay ISA brown chickens can't go broody is that true I want her to hatch eggs

ISA Browns are not known for being broody.
I'm sorry but you can't make her sit on eggs. If you want to hatch eggs, look into getting an incubator or get some breeds that are known to be prone to broodiness like Silkies.

 

[sourland]

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ll she's not broody people ay ISA brown chickens can't go broody is that true I want her to hatch eggs

Although it is unusual it is not impossible for ISA browns to go broody; however, if she is 8 and has never gone broody before I seriously doubt that she is going broody.

@chickengeorgeto, as a kid I helped out at the neighbor's chicken farm. Although not common we had the occasional leghorn that would go broody - by now most of the 'broody DNA' has probably been selected against.

 

[WhiteWyan]

I have been around tens of 1,000s of white leghorn hens going back 70 years and in that time I have never seen, heard, or known of a white leghorn hen, sitting, clucking, incubating, brooding, or in any way acting in a mothering way. There are some white hens who will sit but they are not white leghorns or at least pure whiteleghorns, though I can't speak for all hens who may have some unknown amount of leghorn DNA.. Instead I suspect that your old hen... has lumbago and she wanted to sit down for a spell and rest her aching bones.

She's a brown Leghorn. She will cluck and pester the hens until they get up and then she will sit on the eggs. I always shoo her away. There are always eggs under her when I do this. I suppose she could be just having a rest but it's odd to always choose a place with eggs. Also odd (if she just wants to rest) that she pushes other hens off of their eggs just to be able to lay there.

 

[Silver6780]

ISA Browns are not known for being broody.
I'm sorry but you can't make her sit on eggs. If you want to hatch eggs, look into getting an incubator or get some breeds that are known to be prone to broodiness like Silkies.

Well I have an incubator so I putted eggs ther and one hatched /) but I love seeing chickens have chicks near there chest or breast soo cute

 

[Wyorp Rock]

It is cute to see a hen with chicks. A lot of people keep a couple of Silkies or Cochins if they want to try hatching under a hen. Not all birds are prone to going broody.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

@chickengeorgeto, as a kid I helped out at the neighbor's chicken farm. Although not common we had the occasional leghorn that would go broody - by now most of the 'broody DNA' has probably been selected against.[/QUOTE]

I lived and grew up on the family chicken farm and we purchased all of our replacement chicks and grew them off through a series of dedicated chicken houses until they began to reliability lay. In those years we only grew out or raised White Leghorn hens because the color white resulted in a higher grading caucus when we processed our own chickens as baking hens in a dedicated processing plant. Before this we raised meat birds that were likely CornishXs. However no one saw fit to divulge the meat chickens' ancestry to me. When it became too costly to raise meat birds and we were unable to compete in that market because of the cost of regulations and the economy of scale we turned instead to layers.

 

[Silver6780]

ISA Browns are not known for being broody.
I'm sorry but you can't make her sit on eggs. If you want to hatch eggs, look into getting an incubator or get some breeds that are known to be prone to broodiness like Silkies.

I might get a silkie CHCIKEN

 

[Belgianchickies]

I have an Isa brown chicken that is broody like an incubator, she hatched 7 eggs already and there's more hatching today. Its an exception!
Also Have a broody marans, araucana and dutch crested.
Silkies are not your only option if you want broody hens.

 

[drumstick diva]

I think she doesn't want to be saddled with dependents at her advanced age.