Good Morning all
New here today. Looking for some advice.
I have three hens, and one has gone broody. She has been broody for a couple of weeks, so I have given her eight fertile eggs to hatch. if they work..... Now I plan to raise the chicks within my existing set-up. Has anyone done this...
I have a broodyhen. Shes a young BO and had only been laying about a month before she went broody.
She has been ULTRA broody now for over 6 weeks! and I cannot for the life of me snap her out of it. By ULTRA broody I mean If I didnt manually lift her off the nest each day she would die. she...
Hi everyone,
We have a broodyhen who has been with her nest for about 30 days now. I say 'with her nest' because we thought she was sitting, but after about a week I found that she had laid an egg in the area we fenced off for her, but away from the nest. She has raised chicks successfully for...
...and one of them became lethagic and after a few weeks, she died. I don't know if her death was related to this or not, but the 2 broodyhens have definitely disrupted the other birds. The 2 red marans don't seem to be bothered; however the other Polish hens are. My Polish hens usually...
She's the only hen that lays brown eggs. Over the last couple weeks I have thought she has been broody multiple times. She is still laying eggs and hasn't stopped.
What could be happening here. She's sitting on a couple eggs, hers included. Then doesn't sit overnight. I understand they can...
I've de-broodied many hens successfully in the past, but this one hen is beyond me. Everything has failed, so yesterday we put regular chicken wire in the dog crate and a 4" distance of the ground. We initially put in a 4x4 piece of wood, but then she just squats on that; it seems she would...
We have recently purchased our first four hens and they have been happy, healthy and started laying almost immediately (Go girls!!!). For the past 3 days one of them has gone dark. She’s sitting in the nesting boxes, gets cranky if we go near her but when I have brought her out regardless to get...
Whats the earliest anyone has placed chicks under a broodyhen? I have a hen that's been setting for less than a week and I'm really tempted to give her some chicks but don't want to do it too soon and end up with babies I now have to brood.
She has successfully raised chicks in the past and...
My broodyhen has been closing one eye and it seems cloudy almost like cataracts. She is just a year old. Does anyone know what it could possibly be? I thought maybe she got something in it and it was just irritated but it’s now looking cloudy and I want to help her. Any questions or advice...
Hi folks. I need help breaking our hens broodiness it's crazy how intense it is.
Been at least 3 weeks now. Maybe getting g closer to a month. She is a young buff Orpington and has only been laying a couple of months.
Things I've tried.
Ice pack under her (many times)
Removing her from...
Hello BYC,
I have only hatched chicks once before (result was 5 roosters) in 2021 - and my same Buff Orpington hen (bless her) has gone broody again this year. Her name is Honey, and I gave her eggs in the nesting box 2 days ago.
My pickle:
1. Honey is bottom of the pecking order and got...
I noticed one of my hens stays in the cubby side of the quail hotel, where all the ladies lay the eggs and I usually scare her off to collect eggs. I've never had poultry before so I didn't put 2+2 together until yesterday. I checked and sure enough, she'd gathered 3 of the eggs and was sitting...
Hi everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve needed help, thank yall so much for all the advice! However, we’re experiencing our first broodyhen.
Poppy, no idea what breed she is (she was supposed to be a Rhode Island Red but is most definitely not), has been broody for a couple weeks now. We...
...decided to take a gambit, so I went to a friend’s house, and she gave me four fertilized eggs. I decided to put them in the nest where the broodyhen was.
Today, they hatched. Unfortunately, only one made it.
I have no idea what breed this little one is, or the gender, but that’s not why...
One of my hens went broody and I didn’t even notice until a few days ago.. she was in between our fence and the neighbors. I was wondering where all of our eggs were going.. I thought the crow was taking them all. anyways, yesterday she stopped being broody.. I think stray cats were messing with...
...and today is the 5th day.
I noticed some improvements and the watery white poop only appears occasionally but the problem is that the broodyhen in question is NOT the one who has those white watery droppings but another hen and my young roo.
She started sitting on her eggs around the...
My Maran hen started getting broody about 8 days ago. For the last 4 nights I've kept her in the dog crate I've always used (successfully) in the past with her and other hens. Nothing on the crate floor (just the plastic bottom) other than food and water. The first day and a half she ate a bit...
My hen I'm sure has eggs somewhere I can't find, but at least every morning she was meeting me at the door for breakfast with everyone else. Now it's been a week and I haven't seen her once. I'm extremely worried about her. She is one of my very first Serama hens.
...chicks in that pen. It's pretty roomy, and I gave them two food/water stations so the little ones could always get food. I gave the broodyhen 6 eggs to sit on, to keep her there, as now she became the "heater" for the hutch, as 4-week-old silkies are a little young to be outdoors at night...