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[shoura]

can hens get broody at this time of year?

I spent Xmas day and Boxing day at tmy sister's and when I came back yesterday there were 8 eggs, with Cilla sitting on 6 of them and getting extremely cross with me for turfing her off them. I have noticed this behaviour also when she has just laid an egg and stays sittting on it---very agressive when I try and move her or remove the egg! When I remove the eggs she joins the others and behaves normally.

The problem is most days I am at work 8 to 6 so can't see what she's doing...

[Egluntyne]

Sounds as if she is on the brink, although it is an odd time of year.

 

Can you persuade someone to pop in and boot her off the nest during the day?

[shoura]

well she is definitely broody and I have got the next 3 days to deal with it before I go back to work...

Was thinking of putting her in a wire pet cage in the run, with food and water but no bedding, but I feel I ought to put her back in the coop with bedding at night, with the three others. Do you think this would still work?

[meezers]

well she is definitely broody and I have got the next 3 days to deal with it before I go back to work...

Was thinking of putting her in a wire pet cage in the run, with food and water but no bedding, but I feel I ought to put her back in the coop with bedding at night, with the three others. Do you think this would still work?

 

 

Depends how determined she is. What breed is she ? My silkie just finished her 2nd spell of being broody a couple of weeks ago. As no one else was laying I was able to shut her out of the coop all day every day. She would spend all day behaving like a normal chook, then dive into the coop and fling herself into the nestbox when the pop hole was opened in the evening still took her over 2 weeks to snap out of it.

[shoura]

Well I'll give it a try over the next few days....I'm not bothered about her not laying but just worried that she won't get enough food/water if she is sitting on the nest all day---is there any danger of that? If not, I could just leave her to snap out of it naturally...

[coco]

One of my silkie crosses has been broody for nearly three weeks now and befroe that I had a broody for four weeks. I just turf her out of the nestbox in the morning so that hse eats and drinks then again when I come home from work. Daft chickens pulling all their chest feathers out when its minus five outside.