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My Mathilda "clook clooked" until the babies were about 9 weeks old. She did not leave their side, tho.

Hooray! Mamma gets her life back!!!

I am pleased to report my almost 12 week old chicks are finally claiming some independence, and Mamma has left them to their own devices. They sleep together but apart from Mum, and she no longer terrorizes the rest of the flock for getting too close to one of them. They have moved to the bottom...

My Max is cute with the babies, but I can't imagine him brooding them!!! So cute!

My chicks are 10 weeks old, and still roost with Mamma Tilda, who still stretches her wings all the way down to "warm" anyone who might be sitting on the poo board below. Poor girl, that can't be comfortable! Meanwhile, she has stopped terrorizing everyone else in the flock about them (thank...

I did have a hen come back to me in (mostly) one piece after a coyote attack just a week or so ago. She is recovering well. Anything is possible.

My BA Mamma did show some distress when I slid the 2 CWhites under her...BAs don't come in yellow, and she knew it. But, they peeped and scratched, so she decided to love them, anyway, within the first day.

Oh Johnn, I am so sorry to hear this! It is always devastating to have an attack. I hope you find Melow, and that she is all right.

Black Australorp. My neighbor with all Buff Orps has hens go broody all the time, also

How old are your babies?

My 10 8 week olds still follow Mamma everywhere (although at this point, it is more like she is following them). She has been every bit as protective of them as she was at the beginning, and still tries to cover them with her wings at night, despite the fact they are all roosting now. I don't...

I started with 6 hatchery BAs. Of those 6, 2 have been broody. Is this average? I don't know. But 30% broody rate seems very frequent to me. Especially when broodiness is a heritable trait and hatcheries breed it out wherever possible. Just throwing that out there.

if you do this, I so wanna see little duck bills poking out from under their "Mamma"! I think my broody would raise little dinosaurs if I put the eggs under her. They will already have her broody personality!

You could always do what I did and let her hatch some eggs (duck, if that's what you have), and the buy some day-3 day old pullets and tuck them under her. My BA hen is raising 5 of her own (3 baby roos of the 5- boooo! but I will eat the ones I don't need) and 5 from the feed store, 3 of which...

Black Australorp...Mammas extrordinaire! This is my second broody from 6 hatchery pullets in 2010

Oh geez...this does not give me a lot of hope my Mamma will ever lay an egg again! Mine are 7 weeks old and they show no signs of independence, and she shows no signs of ever wanting them to!

It is so great when your brooder is mobile! You babies are adorable. They will be fine chickens one day!

here, too. None of us were quite ready. The 6 week-olds haven't spent this much time in a pile with Broody since they were new!

I've been pretty fortunate with broodies hatching thru September. After that, it is too wet to have new guys learning the ropes in the rain. In my neck of the woods it is almost never too cold.

Hooray for out of control hatchers!!!! My babies are a month old and I am already planning next Spring's broodiness potential!