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

[Falkor]

So Treacle has been broody for about three weeks now....doing her best evil pancake impression and generally being a stroppy little minx.

 

Before broodiness Treacle was the nicest chook of the bunch and would jump about on my lap on the look out for stray corn.

I have tried the broody cage with NO success

 

Collecting the other girls eggs from under her was becoming scary job so I purchased a couple of dummy eggs thinking she will sit on those and ignore the fresh eggs....wrong!

 

She kicks out the dummies and sits on the fresh

 

Now the dummy eggs get warm like fresh when she sits on them so how does she know!?

 

I have tried the broody cage with NO success

[Redwing]

ooooo bit late in the year to dunk her.... have you tried locking her out?

[Falkor]

Yea, it is blooming nippy here this morning so a dunk is out of the question.

 

Don`t want to shut the cube during the day whilst I am at work as the other five are still laying....

 

She is up and about at the moment.....havinf a mega dustbath under the hedge so maybe all it took was a post and a moan on here

[Space Chick]

I'm having the same problem with Peri

 

When the others had laid yesterday I locked the cube door, I have never seen her get so stressed and angry, she started pecking other girls and going crazy

 

She has always been such a sweetie and has always loved a cuddle, but I don't know who she is now, she's like a different chicken

 

Phil said she's no different to any other hormonal female - evil and high maintenance. Guess who's making his own tea tonight

[Chook n Boo Mum]

 

Phil said she's no different to any other hormonal female - evil and high maintenance. Guess who's making his own tea tonight

 

Some men just don't know when to keep quiet do they

 

She is up and about at the moment.....havinf a mega dustbath under the hedge so maybe all it took was a post and a moan on here

 

Well you know this often happens to me...get onto Omlet & the situation sorts itself miraculously.......don't tell us that she's still "unbroody" later though, little minx will have reverted overnight

 

she stays a nice chook......it's much easier to break broodiness if you have them in with non-layers I've found, though not an option for you

 

Sha x

[Falkor]

 

Phil said she's no different to any other hormonal female - evil and high maintenance. Guess who's making his own tea tonight

 

Some men just don't know when to keep quiet do they

 

She is up and about at the moment.....havinf a mega dustbath under the hedge so maybe all it took was a post and a moan on here

 

Well you know this often happens to me...get onto Omlet & the situation sorts itself miraculously.......don't tell us that she's still "unbroody" later though, little minx will have reverted overnight

 

she stays a nice chook......it's much easier to break broodiness if you have them in with non-layers I've found, though not an option for you

 

Sha x

 

She is still up and about!

 

The big girls seem to have decided to give up on the egg laying lark so I could pop her in there but that could be baptism by fire!

 

she stays unbroody

[Janty]

Fingers crossed.

[thebdj]

I have just got to say that the description 'Evil Pancake' is now my favourite. Of All Time. Ever.

[TAJ]

When my Dorking was broody I had to put on leather guanlets to get the eggs without being pecked or the move her. I would lift her out the egg port door and put her in the garden (with food & water), leaving the other girls in the cube & run to happily lay. A few days of being isolated and she stopped it.

 

Tracy

[Falkor]

Treacle the broody devil pekins is broody no more.....I am told by OH that she is currently inside a pumpkin....eating it inside out!

 

However....he also tells me that he has turfed Pip, mini silkie, out of the nesting box three times already this morning

[Space Chick]

Well Peri has spent night 2 in the broody cage, so another 24hrs and I will let her out. Fingers crossed she would have snapped out of it