4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Berkochicks]

Tallullah has gone all broody on us. She keeps going in to the nesting box and refusing to move. I remove any eggs as soon as the others lay them and take her out every time I notice she is missing. Of course I can't do all this on the days I am working.

 

Will she pass through his phase? how long will it take? anything else i can do to help her?

 

Donna

[poachedegg]

I closed the Cube once the others had laid when Marjorie went broody - 2 weeks later I was still doing it. We then put her in a broody cage (dog crate on bricks) in the run for 3 days and nights - she came out on Friday afternoon and she seems to be over it!

[Egluntyne]

Helpful article about Broody Hens **here**

[Guest]

Tallullah has gone all broody on us. She keeps going in to the nesting box and refusing to move. I remove any eggs as soon as the others lay them and take her out every time I notice she is missing. Of course I can't do all this on the days I am working.

 

Will she pass through his phase? how long will it take? anything else i can do to help her?

 

Donna

 

Something about the air in Herts then..my speckeldy is broody and I have just got back from work after removing all the hot eggs from under her..she has pecked her front and I have just shoved her in the run and shut the cube door. I did this yesterday but she will be back like a shot as soon as its open..I think I am just going to ignore it as I got 4/5 eggs today so as long as they dont all go broody. Thats the only problem if you only had 3 chickens I would be taking further action!! Due to low eggs!

 

Mind you she is normally so flighty its quite nice to have a cuddle. As I took her out the port hole she was hanging on with her feet to stay put! Madam!

 

Next year I would be quite pleased for a broody as I would like to increase numbers to keep the laying pattern up!

 

Good luck havent tried any of the other methods yet to de brood her indie

[Berkochicks]

Tallullah is a speckledy as well. I have locked her out of the run and she is hanging around the door. Poor girl, same as you, its nice to have a cuddle with her she normally runs off. I have a cat basket which I may fill with straw and see if she decides to settle in.

 

Donna

[atsw]

I have a cat basket which I may fill with straw and see if she decides to settle in.

If you want her to snap out of it quickly, you need to make things as uncomfortable as possible. Sounds a bit rough, but a bare cat basket raised off the ground (so air can circulate) will be much less appealing and after three or four days she should be back to normal. You must put in food and water of course, just no creature comforts.

 

Andrew

[keyhole kate]

Yup definately something in the air in herts

My brahma Cindy Lou Hoo has just got over her broodyness

only to have Martha May Whovier my other brahma go broody

now

[Guest]

Yup definately something in the air in herts

My brahma Cindy Lou Hoo has just got over her broodyness

only to have Martha May Whovier my other brahma go broody

now

 

 

oh no its not catching is it

 

I suppose being new to chickens this is a new experience and I am finding it sadly amusing too

 

Being premenopausal all my life I think I have deepest sympathy with chicken hormones

[mrsallen08]

We have two broody bantams!

One has been broody for weeks now and is making herself ill, comb and wattles very small and pale. Now our second pekin is broody too and they just sit in the coop all day.

Can we put them in a 'broody cage' together?

[sadietoo]

Hi both my bantam crosses are broody too. I feel like I'm doing the wrong thing though. one of them was broody a few weeks ago, and I did manage to get her to snap out of it.... but because she has become broody again so soon I thought I'd let her sit it out this time. WRong! cos now the other one is copying her. I think we're into our third week now, but I'm worried I'm being inconsistent. I've blocked off the nestbox so they can't get into it, and been turfing them out once or twice a day...This evening they were waiting for me to come home to let them out and I was hopeful that they had got over it...but they had put themselves to bed by 7.30... should I have just let them have the nestbox?

 

Someone at the weekend said that Broody Hens can die because they neglect themselves so much, and I should either get them a china egg to sit on so that they get the idea that they are wasting their time or let them hatch chicks. We are veggie and the thought of hatching a boy fills me with horror as we are far too urban here for a cockerel. I am making sure that they drink and eat a couple of times a day, and as mentioned above they are freeranging from time to time..so perhaps they aren't completely broody but just playing at it?

 

Your advice would be much appreciated.

PS I have read Kate's very helpful post on Broody Hens and I have been trying to dunk their rear ends a couple of times a day too....it doesn't seem to be making a difference, other than to make me the wicked witch of the west !

[brambles]

I also have a broody speckledy. She's been broody ever since she first came into lay a couple of months ago. I've tried all sorts, including locking her out, taking eggs from under her. She's now in full broody, but I've bunged a wrapped ice pack under her hoping to cool down her undercarriage a bit.

 

Should I just let her sit it out, or should I try to 'break' the pattern (although I was trying to do this for weeks with no success).

[Guest]

One of ours, Bobby, has gone broody too. Thought by locking her away from the nest box we had cured her, but no ... she was sat on an egg this evening and every time I tried to get it she kept trying to peck me. It became a game of dare and she won! So I put on some gauntlets and removed her from the nest box. I then got a bucket of water and dunked her netheregions in to see if that will help cure her. Otherwise it will be a crate on bricks for this moody madam (will have to buy crate first!). xxx

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I bought a £20 puppy crate from Ebay and have used it twice successfully. You could look out for something in a pet shop or charity shop.