beach chick Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 I'll start: Muffin, silkie, on cage rest for next 2 weeks with ligament damage - release date July 26 Fairy, white sussex, broody than a broody thing on a broody day - possible release on Friday lunchtime! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Iris the Speckled Star hybrid. Between the months of April and November. Lays about 10 eggs, then broody for at least three weeks, takes two weeks to start laying again, lays about 10 eggs, then goes broody........ and so on No one told her she is supposed to lay 270 plus eggs a year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minnie&Moose Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Magda the cochin - broody 3 times since April - and she only starting laying in March But she's very good natured, even when broody, and has a special little broody 'song' so I can't be too cross with her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouldercroft Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Lovely Rita my salmon faverolle. Just been released from the ikea broody prison cell for the second time this year. Oh, but she is adorable and she is my favorite so it's hard to get too mad.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welovemarmite Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Pakora the silver hampurgh... second broody spell this year with only about 2 weeks in between.... Just leaving her to it now and keeping her in with the rest. Passanda the cream leg bar, joined Pakora the first time round, but has decided not return there this time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolateeclaire Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Buffy - Buff Favourelle - Lives in the sin bin - regular dunking in the water trough where she just lies there making no attempt to get out. Worried neighbours might report me to RSPCA!! Claire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracker57 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Maxx the Silkie...just finished brooding after about 2 months! Have been chucking her out of the coop for food. The little madam was non too happy either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gongladosh Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Poor little chicken of fate Houdini is currently known as Broodini... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs chook Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 After two months of my having 'the broodies', I have finally given in and decided to put her to good use and put some fertilised eggs under her yesterday she is VERY happy now!!! My friend's girl went off being broody as soon as she tried this, so we're sharing midwife duties if this works out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 I let Fairy out yesterday morning because she was making such a fuss... by 4pm she was back in the nest box all fluffy and huffy so she's back in the sin bin since last night. still a stroppy old mare but she can stay there a bit longer I think!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindafw Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Bilbo the buff Orpington...broody again! She laid softies for days then 2 normal eggs before fluffing up and churring at the others...just keep turfing her out of the Eglu this time, and Hetty the Dorking hasn't laid for days whilst Livvy the other Dorking has not returned to laying since her broody spell...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Esmerelda the Polish is hiding her egg so we are down to one laying...bless Gladys the buff Sussex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffy chick Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 I have 3 broody pekins who have been broody for about 3 months I've tried everything! One seems to be getting bored now and might be finally cracking! I have 1 silkie (gooseberry) in the cage at the minute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlotta Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 It's like world of the broodys round here at the moment! I've got a LF brahma in the dog-crate, two brahma bantams and 4 pekins trying their hardest to fill up the eglu nest boxes!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Another two broodies for the sin bin. Sweetpea and Poppy the Itsa Bitsa Sisters have joined Iris. Broody within hours of each other and the third time this year. No more green eggs for a few weeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercedes55 Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 Our Welsummer is broody for the 2nd time this Summer. First time it was only a couple of days, but this time it's been longer so after days of hoofing her out of the nest almost all day long, we have put her in the other part of the run with our 3 ex batts. She is not a happy bunny as she now spends all day pacing along the wire looking at her friends the other side. It's taken her mind off being broody though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouldercroft Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 and for the THIRD time this summer.... Lovely Rita is broody again - back in jail for her on Monday...I can't bear to imprison her at the weekend when I'm home to watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennym Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Pippa, our Miss Pepperpot, is broody and I am watching it live on our chook-cam while we are on holiday Why now? So much for non-broody hybrids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brightonbelle Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 I have 2 more for the sin bin....Peggy the Pekin and Deta,a little hybrid(or poss a buff sussex no-one knew when I bought her). Peggy thinks the water dunking is great fun so that doesnt work,and if i shut her away from the nest she shouts so loud she annoys my neighbours! So she has been broody for about 5 weeks now...will she ever break? Deta joined her 2 weeks ago.... The 3rd girl Sky the araucana stopped laying for weeks,started again 2 weeks ago,but has stopped again after laying 7 eggs..... Lucky I love them as pets and am not too concerned re the lack of eggs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted August 7, 2011 Author Share Posted August 7, 2011 Fairy went back into ours yesterday... she is pacing like a mad thing and honking to be let out, but she's in there til Mon lunchtime!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted August 7, 2011 Share Posted August 7, 2011 Blacky (my black star/pepperpot hybrid) went in today. She looks like a mini turkey when her tail feathers are all frizzled out! Shes a good broody though, doesn't peck me when I touch her and doesn't shriek when shes in the cage! Named and shamed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Mini, pekin happily off the nest and has now laid 3 eggs since then. 2 months. 2 MONTHS!!! The little wench flatly refused to conform whatever was thrown at her - until another pekin (boss of the pekins) decided it is her turn. Skye has been sitting for over 2 weeks now. I would like to add that in spite of having the eglu free, Mini insisted on using the cube and nestbox wars commenced with the buff sussex refusing to lay eggs in the empty part of the box because she's a prude and wanted it all to herself. The rear part of the eglu has it's roosting bars removed and now has shredded paper to make an additional nesting area. The big fat orpie is now using that. So did the maran (but now Mini has left she has returned to the cube to lay). Never easy is it?!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedusA Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Squib, my partridge Silkie, goes broody once a month throughout Spring/Summer/Autumn and occasionally in Winter too. She has 3 days in the broody cage to snap her out of it or she'd stay broody for weeks. I have tried everything, but that's the only thing that works for her. My other Silkie, Muggle never gets broody. Where's the logic in that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minnie&Moose Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 After two months of broody, or moulting, or recovering, Magda has laid an Wonder how many we'll get this time before she has to go back in the sin bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medwriter Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 I'd like to add Thyme - another Pepperpot. Arrived as POL at end of May, layed every day for about 6 weeks, then went broody last Thursday There does seem to be a bit of a theme with Pepperpots on this thread ... never had this problem over 4 years with my Gingernuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 I'm adding Dolly a gold silkie. She is currently brooding an empty egg shell under a bamboo bush near the back gate. I get her out for food and water at odd time during the day and pop her into the hen house at night, but as soon as I let her out in the morning, after a quick snack, she shuffles on back to her bamboo bush come rain or shine. It all started when she was missing at 'lights out' time one evening. I went looking all over the garden with a torch and there she was on a stash of 7 eggs. I took 6 to a Silkie breeder who wants chickies (I don't) and that left Dolly with just one egg. In the night a rattle ate the egg contents and now, undetered, Dolly is sitting on the empty shell. Should I get her a rubber egg or two to sit on? Would that mean she only stayed broody for 3 weeks rather than going on and on? This is her second time this summer and last time she was broody for at least a month. I can't do the broody cage thing as that seems to me just too like a witch cage in Medieval times. Dinky my chocolate Silkie is also broody and has been so for at least 3 weeks already but at least she has the sense to sit in the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
