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Update on my broody. For the last 3 to 4 days I have moved the hen out of the nesting box and remove all eggs 3 to 4 times a day and I think this may have done it. She's been out in the run with the others most of the day, once in awhile I hear her broody chatter but is still out and about with...

Hope you close the coop door at night or it could get worse.

Took a couple pics of my gate area.

Put a board down to the ground standing on edge that the gate/door closes to, fasten to run some how and fasten your hardware cloth to it and bent to lay on the ground. It is kind of a pain having to step over it but was the only way I could find to keep the weasels out.

You can bend the 1/2" hardware cloth to lay flat on the ground and then let the grass grow up through or cover with woodchips, gravel or even a couple inches of dirt. The hardware cloth should be out around 16" or more.

Beans, corn, zucchini and gladiolas planted today. Cucumber, pepper and tomato plants will go in in a few days. Seeing a few radish coming up. :D

Thanks.

She is a looker that's for sure. :D

If she is still laying which she must be ( just 1 egg under her, if she gets up they rollaway) is this just the beginning of being broody? If she never gets a clutch of eggs would that break her being broody?

She is on the nest most of the day but never the same nestbox from day to day. Not sure at night ,I will have to check tonight.

I will need to break her of her broodiness.

Chicks would be fun but my coop is to it's bird limit as of now.

I will keep this in mind, good idea.

1 of my Barred Rocks is broody I believe, I never see her out in the run eating or drinking, the coop does have food and water. Since I have a roll out nest box she only ever has 1 egg under her and when she gets up that one rolls out. My ? is should I do anything or just let her be?

Looks like a pullet to me, but I've been wrong before. :D

Pullet.

Carrot seed at a 1/4" deep would have floated all over the garden. :D

Yesterday at light I tilled a bit of the garden to get 3 rows of carrots/ radish seed in, always put a radish seed in the carrot rows about a foot apart for marking the rows. Beet the storm by an hour or so and am glad I put narrow pieces of wood over the rows because it poured and would of just...

You want the calcium citrate +D3, I got mine at walmart. The 1 shell less egg may just of been a fluke if you got a normal one.

I have a EE with the same issue, I've gotten shell less, lash, double yoke's and huge shelled eggs. She lays some sort of egg I think every other day, most are shell less which she usually will eat.