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[dannablue]

My speckled sussex has decided to go broody. She has been like this a couple of days but today I have noticed she has pulled (assuming it is her not the others) most of her knicker feathers out. Her bottom is almost bald. I am going to get some anti peck spray - any other suggestions?

 

Also, can anyone explain why sometimes she walks around, puts her head to the floor, lifts her bottom up and kind of opens her feathers to show everyone her behind? Is this because is wants to mate? Or some other sinister reason?? Worried about flystrike...just going to catch her and check her over really closely.

 

Any suggestions or help appreciated. She can be coaxed out to eat and drink and will free range but only for a few minutes. Will dunking her in cold water with a bald bottom do any damage?

[dannablue]

Have given her a good check over. No crawlies of any kind, no wounds, and no horrible red sore patches. She is just bald. Her vent is very clean. She is bald on her bottom and now up her chest so I think it is just a case of broody. Have put her in a bucket of cold water and she looks so bedraggled and scruffy as you can see through her feathers to the bald bits. This is my first bald broody...makes me feel guilty and like I have been bad but I know this is a natural thing for them. Poor girl.

[cooker]

Snap! Our speckly, soup, is exactely the same, We have tried bathing her in cold water when we are here and shes been sitting on bags of ice, but shes still got it bad! even when she is lifted out it takes her ages to snap out of it and seems more intent on being grumpy than eating or drinking. I've seen her eat today quite a few times, but havent managed to see her drink, fingers crossed she did when I wasn't watching....you can take a horse to water! I've made a makeshift broody cage with wooden bars for tomorrow, fingers crossed it helps!

Hope your snaps out of it soon!

 

Rachel

[dannablue]

She is still broody but she will come out for food and water if I remove her (with the odd boc boc). I tried the dunking in the bucket, and spent hours removing her from the nestbox and even making drafts but nothing is working. I have even tried to explain that we dont have a man chicken so she wont get any baby chicks but she cannot grasp it I have left her to sit in the nestbox just moving her 3 times a day to make sure she eats and drinks. She has started preening and staying out for a wander for a while longer so we could be on the slope back to normality. She is not stopping the others laying (in fact she allows them to use the nestbox then cuddles their eggs for them) so she seems OK. Will perservere with her.

[dannablue]

Update - we have decided to try the draft idea. We have a wooden coop so have used some netting (quite hefty stuff) and fixed it to the door opening. We have left the door open therefore the coop is drafty and cool. We threw her out of the nestbox and since then she has not been back in! She has had a dustbath this morning, has been digging and eating/drinking with the others so we hope the longer we can keep her out the better chance we have of pulling her out of the broody period. Fingers crossed this works

[Mollie333]

Any updates?

My pekin went broody about a month ago, i gave in and gave her 4 fertilized eggs.

(My pic below is Effy the broody)

Goodluck.