Eglu Go With 2m Run For Sale

[Roobaloo]

I know that broody hens will 'deposit' a large, smelly poo on their nest breaks...but surely once she's off the nest, her 'movements' should return to normal??

 

Toph was broody during the summer and we ended up having to put her in a broody cage in the end to snap her out of it...this was well over a month ago...however, she is still doing the huge poos!!! ...and not just one a day!!

 

It's getting to be a real nuissance now as she's always prefered to sleep in the nestbox...and on a daily basis there is usually two eggs and one huge poo...not pleasant (you certainly wouldn't want to collect the eggs in the dark!! )

 

Any idea why she's doing it? Is it possible that she's not truly snapped out of her broody spell?? Her broodiness started very subtly, at first she just seemed to be taking a long time to lay...this got longer over a period of weeks until she started returning to the nest in the early evening. If you lifted her off the nest, she didn't seem too fussed...then it became worse and worse and she got aggressive and more determind to be on the nest...she then seemed to cool off again (often seen off the nest for a few hours each day) before going full on broody!!

 

Or could it be something else? Could it be she's eating too much??

[abwsco]

Are they stinky like a broody poo or just large?

[Roobaloo]

To be honest, I've never (luckily) been close enough to a very fresh one - even when she was a true broody...though, I was s"Ooops, word censored!"ing one off a ladder earlier and it broke apart and it was quite smelly. That may just be down to the sheer volume of it though...I'd guess a pile of several normal poos would pong a bit!

 

...now that I think about it, the eglu smells more frequently...so I'm guessing they are stinkier!!