Charlie_uk Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 Hi all, is it common for chickens to go broody in December? if not is there anything else that can cause the same symptons? I dont want to dunk Sage in this cold if she's not broody!! Thanks Charlie x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 Hello Charlie, No idea, but sure someone will be along who knows. If you mean stops laying eggs, then lots have been reporting that. I guess sitting on nest must happen all year because chicks arrive all the time for hybrids, but I suppose they could be hatched using an incubator Sorry Im not a lot of help. Shell be frozen sage if you dunk her at present. Brrrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 What is she doing? Is she hogging the nest at all, or has she just gone off lay? It isn't the most common time for them to go broody, but there is always the exception to the rule! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 if she's sitting on the nest and looks rather like a flattened pancake, rather than normal chicken sitting, she's broody!! personally I wouldnt dunk her in this weather - you could try a broody cage? - with food and water. one of mine was broody for most of November, and tho I put her in the cage for the daytime I put her back with the others for the nights so she'd be warm enough. prob meant it took longer for her to snap out of it though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
half dozen Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Foxy has been in the nesting box for the last few days when I have checked on them, and we are only getting four eggs daily rather than five.So I presume she is also broody? never had a broody chicken before! Is she ok if I just leave her to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 From what I've read on other threads it's too cold at the moment to do the usual remedies, ie dunking her in cold water, or leaving her in cat basket on bricks. I would just leave her too it until the spring if I were you and hope she snaps out of it. At least you are still getting 4 eggs a day. They do pick their time don't they Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Mrs Beeton has only recently been broody. I just left her to it as the weather was so awful and I didn't have the heart to put her out on her own at this time of year. And she's my favourite! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_uk Posted December 13, 2008 Author Share Posted December 13, 2008 she is sitting in the nesting box puffed up like an oversized tea cozy, squarking indignantly if disturbed and then when we kick her off eating and drinking like theres no tomorrow. I would leave her but shes stopping Rosemary laying in the box so the poor thing is having to lay in the run!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bondinho Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 Yep one of my silkies has stopped laying a couple of days ago and is now into super broody mode. I was not expecting it in December especially with all the frosty weather recently - although to be fair I wasn't expecting my 2 silkies to still be laying in December so I'll let them off for now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
