I have a hen that's being broody, but not broody. She's a splash Brahma as far as I know.
She tidbits the other adult chickens over to her and finds scraps of food.
She does that higher-pitched momma cluck as she's walking around the yard.
She squawls at me if I get too close and fluffs up.
But she's not sitting eggs.
I might have messed her up, testing her to see if she was legit. But with other broodies I've had, just removing them from the nest never deters them and they run back, even if I carry them across the yard and away from the coop. She sat in the nest for an evening until I took her off the nest and put her on the roost, now she has no interest in sitting on the nest.
I don't think there's any viable way to break her broody behavior since she's not sitting, right?
She tidbits the other adult chickens over to her and finds scraps of food.
She does that higher-pitched momma cluck as she's walking around the yard.
She squawls at me if I get too close and fluffs up.
But she's not sitting eggs.
I might have messed her up, testing her to see if she was legit. But with other broodies I've had, just removing them from the nest never deters them and they run back, even if I carry them across the yard and away from the coop. She sat in the nest for an evening until I took her off the nest and put her on the roost, now she has no interest in sitting on the nest.
I don't think there's any viable way to break her broody behavior since she's not sitting, right?
I've considered but I forget to do things or forget to upload images. The individual chick pictures are shortly after hatch (the black one is actually from Atwoods that she adopted as the two blond ones knocked an egg out from under her and it died from getting too cold).
