Will broody surrogate keep getting broody after she raises the chicks?

[Dhkoenig]

We are thinking about putting some day old chicks under our broody hen. She is SUCH a broody girl, unlike other hens I have broken, she really is tremendously difficult to break and she goes broody often. If she gets to raise some babies will she still keep going broody?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

We are thinking about putting some day old chicks under our broody hen. She is SUCH a broody girl, unlike other hens I have broken, she really is tremendously difficult to break and she goes broody often. If she gets to raise some babies will she still keep going broody?

Probably. I have a hen that has hatched 2 batches in 10 weeks, as well as fostered some ducklings for a few days between batches

 

[Mrs. K]

I have a hen that goes twice a year. I have had hens that go broody once a year. But I have read where a bird is broody nearly all the time.

 

[aart]

Maybe...maybe not.
Only time will tell.

Had to break a broody 7 times one summer, this was after I let her hatch in March.

 

[fluffycrow]

Maybe...maybe not.
Only time will tell.

Had to break a broody 7 times one summer, this was after I let her hatch in March.

I want her.

But yeah, you'll just have to wait and see

 

[Pinoy Angelfish]

For pure native hens here in the Philippines, going broody after laying a clutch of 12 to 17 eggs is part of the normal cycle, they always go broody unlike exotic heritage chicken breeds like white leghorns, Barred Plymouth Rock s and Rhode Island Reds which are normally not broody. With crossbreeds of native and exotic breeds, my friend's experience is that the hens lay for a much longer time then eventually they go broody,

 

[aart]

I want her.

I gave her to someone who wanted a broody, she never went broody again.

 

[fluffycrow]

I gave her to someone who wanted a broody, she never went broody again.

Why does this seem to always happen