Mrs

[Smudge]

Been a while since I posted but been rather busy and all's been well with the girls, but we have a young Speckledy who only came into lay in April. She went broody after laying for about 6 weeks and we managed to get her out of it by using a broody cage. She got back to laying quite quickly afterwards, but a month later is now broody again! We have her in the broody cage again, but I'm just wondering if there's anything we can do to try and prevent this happening in the future as I can see it developing into a regular event! I thought hybrids weren't supposed to suffer from broodiness.

[coppers]

My speckledy hybrid Lupin is always broody , , and has been since I got her at point of lay. She starts on the first sunny day in spring and stops in the autumn. She has to be sinbinned regularly for 3 days and nights. It does snap her out of it. About a week after she has been 'cured' she starts laying again, until the next time... I stopped giving her corn in the afternoon as I felt it was overheating her and contributing to the broodiness. This did seem to help but it may have been a coincidence. The upside to her being broody so often is that she has not 'burnt herself out' laying as hybrids tend to do, and at 3 and a half she has outlived the other girls I bought at the same time. I would love to let her hatch some chicks but I can't face culling the males.

[mollyripkim]

I wish there was some way of preventing, Cilla is broody yet again but friendly with it and the two new white girls have decided to join her having only been laying for a few months.