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[Silkiemum]

Mona is a lovely one year old Pekin - she is one of five and usually very alert and lively. She and a sister went broody about eight weeks ago - could be longer. the other one snapped out of it (we tend to confime ours to a pen in the run whilst they get over it) but Mona never has. We have allowed her to rejoin her sisters but she spends most of her day in the Cube on the bars - not in the nesting box.

Every so often we coax her out into the run and she is fine with the others and eats and drinks. then she assumes her lonely vigil on the bars again.

She seems health enough and comb etc is bright red and perky. Occasionally she sneaks onto an egg - could she be broody still and has just learnt it is less hassle to stay on the bars? Any ideas?

 

Thanks Sue

Jill, Precious, Mona, ursula, Janice RIP Rachel glorious head chicken, Amy and Phoebe

[Plum]

Must be something about pekins. My wretched Crow has been broody for ages.

 

The nest box is blocked off and the cube is shut up all day but as soon as it's opened she shoots and settles down clucking on the bars. I have to drag her out each morning and she pootles around clucking tossing bits of bedding over her shoulder

 

I'm not so cruel to the rest there is a little house in the run they lay in but luckily doesn't get occupied by the broody ones.

[mimi5]

My gold partridge pekin Molly has nearly driven me mad with her broody behaviour!!!!!!! She is also just over a year old and is on her 4th broody phase!!!! I even gave in and let her hatch....thinking it might get it out of her system!!!!!(She was flinging herself at the cube door repeatedly, I couldn't bare it and that was after 3 days in the anti- broody coop, so got her eggs to hatch)

 

She went in to the anti-broody coop this morning and tonight I get home from work to discover that her companion(also just over a year old) in the cube Milly has also gone broody....AGAIN!!! Give me strength she was also allowed to hatch this year and I have 3 lovely growers in their own coop and run. Oh please don't let them be like their mums??!!! Poor Monty my cockerel doesn't know what to make of it all

 

Maybe they can keep each other company in the anti-broody cage. Probably snuggle up to keep warm

 

Anyone out there with tips that work, I'm dreading next year already!!!!!

[Silkiemum]

Thanks, guys. Thing is, I am not even sure she is broody anymore - it's bizarre, this sitting on the bars - sometimes she doesn't go and sit on an egg if one is laid, just sits on the bars, glowering at everyone. Such a shame - she is a lovely girl and it would be nice to see her out and about with her sisters.

[mimi5]

Does Mona fluff up and making that "cluck, cluck" noise? Also is she very flattened out, like a dinner plate? If you pick her up is her breast warm and does she do a pre-histroric sounding "screech"? These are the things my girls do when they're broody.

 

Mine never rest on the bars given any choice! Not sure what you could do next really.....maybe get your vet to check her over?? Is she laying at all? My 2 stil were...until they went broody!!!GRRR

[zakjon-98]

My broody light Sussex will sit and try and hatch eggs even if there is nothing there Hope she is back to her usual self soon