Chicken bald back

[coco]

My Silkie cross has been broody for nearly four weeks now. She is sitting on the eggs the other hens lay, all day {they lay after I go to work }. Would putting her in a seperate run on her own during the day help stop her being broody as she would have no eggs to sit on. I would put her back in with the others at night.

Any other ideas appreciated.

 

Thanks. l

[Ain't Nobody Here]

The thing that worked for me was a broody cage. Three days and nights (but put somewhere sheltered at night). It seems cruel but it's kinder in the long run.

[Egluntyne]

Advice **here** and **here** both in the FAQ section.

[Sammy]

Like ANH my broody was only resolved by 3 days and 3 nights in a broody cage. I tried her in a different run during the day, I blocked the nest box when the rest of the girls had laid, I tried the water dunking and nothing worked. After 3 weeks I resorted to the broody cage as she was losing condition, getting very thin and had plucked her chest bare, and after I got past the first day and night of watching her pacing up and down I didn't feel so bad.

 

I kept her in sight of the other hens during the day in a large dog cage (nothing on the cage floor) stilted on 4 bricks to let the air circulate and I bought 2 budgie feeders that I could hook on the cage for her food and water but when the girls went into their house at night I brought her into our garage (still in the cage, on stilts but took the food and water away) so she was out of the elements and sheltered.

 

She has been broody again since and this time she went straight into the cage and snapped out of it in 2 days - much better than the 3 or 4 weeks.

[Space Chick]

I agree, a broody cage is the way to go.

 

I always try a couple of days to see if you can snap them out of it, but then its the broody cage

 

In fact Susan my silkie has just gone broody today, she's got until Sat to sort her act out otherwise its the broody cage for her

[Falkor]

I agree, a broody cage is the way to go.

 

I always try a couple of days to see if you can snap them out of it, but then its the broody cage

 

In fact Susan my silkie has just gone broody today, she's got until Sat to sort her act out otherwise its the broody cage for her

 

Naughty Susan!!! Probably following her sisters example - T&M currently in broody cage at my house too as they are very stuborn and would not sort themselves out.

 

You would think being trampled on by itty bitty pekins on their way to bed would make them get up but NO!!! They took to letting them sleep under their wings

[Chook n Boo Mum]

I agree, a broody cage is the way to go.

 

I always try a couple of days to see if you can snap them out of it, but then its the broody cage

 

In fact Susan my silkie has just gone broody today, she's got until Sat to sort her act out otherwise its the broody cage for her

 

Naughty Susan!!! Probably following her sisters example - T&M currently in broody cage at my house too as they are very stuborn and would not sort themselves out.

 

You would think being trampled on by itty bitty pekins on their way to bed would make them get up but NO!!! They took to letting them sleep under their wings

 

Getting in practice for the potential babies who will of course need to sleep under Mama's wings, and Pekins are so diddy, they could be mistaken for chicks by a daft bigger broody

 

I'm not saying your girls are daft Em, but being broody seems to knock out any limited sense they had to start with doesn't it

 

Sha x