Chicken Kitty Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Please can someone give me some advice Clover my Sussex bantam came into lay 4 weeks ago, we have had an egg every day since. On Tuesday I found her in the eglu sitting on her egg. I had to move her off to retrieve the egg (which is unusual) I'm not sure how long she had been sitting on it. After this she kept returning to the eglu, even though the egg had gone. She didn't lay an egg yesterday or today and keeps going and sitting in the eglu. If I turf her out and close the eglu door, she acts normally (although she does hang around the eglu a bit), she doesn't look ill, her comb is red......Is she broody? Ill? Or am I just panicking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loumabel Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 It sounds like she is broody to me. I have a light sussesx bantam and they are very prone to broodiness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Kitty Posted October 6, 2011 Author Share Posted October 6, 2011 Thank you Loumabel...... As she is my only hen laying is it ok to shut the eglu door so that they are in the run all day, she seems to act normally then.....will this snap her out of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loumabel Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Hi chicken kitty, I find that shutting them out can snap them out of it and if it is not going to interfere with your other chooks then I would try that and see if it does the trick. If you catch it early enough you can nip broodiness in the bud. I have had a wyandotte that started to be broody this week and a couple of days of shutting the eglu door has sorted her out especially as it has turned a bit nippy in our area and theres nothing like a bit of cold wind up their knickers to cool of the broodiness Good luck x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Kitty Posted October 6, 2011 Author Share Posted October 6, 2011 and theres nothing like a bit of cold wind up their knickers to cool of the broodiness Good luck x That's what I was thinking too! I think I've caught it early, so fingers crossed! Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Kitty Posted October 8, 2011 Author Share Posted October 8, 2011 A couple of days of 'cold wind up her knickers' certainly seems to have cured Clover's broodiness! Life returns to normal! How long do they stop laying for when they go broody?....Or do I have to wait until next spring for eggs now!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
