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[stoice]

I think my Margot may be broody. All three of my girls prefer to sleep outside on the top perch on their secure WIR but the past two mornings I've had to hoik her out of the nest box. She's not 'growling' at me or hissing like I've heard my other girls do in the past but she's flat as a pancake, pecked me when I moved her and stayed in her trance for a while before a shake of feathers snapped her out of it. I left her this morning ticking into breakfast chirpy as normal. Tonight as I checked on them, the other two were on their perch but Margot was on the nest box again.

 

I go on holiday tomorrow so my MIL is chicken sitting for us. Would have been much more simple for her without all this. Don't think she's picked up a chicken before but hopefully a quick lesson and she'll be able to turf Margot out the house a few times a day for me until I get back from hols and sort a broody cage.

 

You think this will be ok? I'd have thought it was far too late in the year to go broody. Oh Margot.

[westie mum]

My Magpie is broody too! Didn't see much of her yesterday morning, went into the WIR in the afternoon to collect the eggs and there she was flat as a pancake sitting on 7 eggs. Turfed her out this morning and she's eaten and drinking but walking around cluck clucking. I just know that when I go to collect the eggs in a bit she'll be in the nest box again . They must think it's Spring!!

[Leeloo]

Yep, I have a broody, too. Of course, this is Florida so it's probably more comfortable for her to be broody now than in the summer when it's super hot and humid. She's a hybrid and I thought they were less likely to go broody. It's been about almost three weeks now. She's sticking to her guns and I'm getting tired of fighting with her!

[chickenNutter]

I had 2 broodies in the cooler last week. Time of year means nothing to them - they just get that dreamy look in their eye and they're off! Have managed to snap them out of it, but I doubt they will come back into lay until next spring now

[Leeloo]

For the past couple of days, whenever I haul Zoe out of the Eglu and plunk her down on the ground, she starts weakly pulling pine straw up around herself as if to say, "Fine! If you won't let me nest in there, I'll do it out here!" If I ignore her and walk away, she jumps up, squawks, flaps her wings and runs around a bit as if she's having a tantrum. Drama queen chicken!!

[MedusA]

Squib, my perpetually broody Silkie has just come out of 3 days in the cooler.

 

She's back to normal now....until the next time.