Hey.... Lets keep Chickens..!

kaydeed

angelavdavis wrote: »

All I can add Janebo12 is to ensure they have plenty of clean water. Mine have been a bit on/off lay this year - not helped by one of the hens going broody and upsetting the others.

Is there anything you can do for a broody chicken ? Ive had my chickens for 3 months. I have 4 altogether. Just managed to get 3/4 eggs a day and now one has gone broody and wont get out or let anyone else in the nesting box

angelavdavis

I had to deal with my broody one a few weeks ago, then she relapsed and had to go back in. I used a broody cage as described in these articles. I felt mean putting her in there (by the way, I added a scrap of corrigated plastic roofing I had lying around to stop her getting wet), but she was right as rain in a few days and the girls are all so much happier now.

http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=25
http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=289

kaydeed

angelavdavis wrote: »

I had to deal with my broody one a few weeks ago, then she relapsed and had to go back in. I used a broody cage as described in these articles. I felt mean putting her in there (by the way, I added a scrap of corrigated plastic roofing I had lying around to stop her getting wet), but she was right as rain in a few days and the girls are all so much happier now.

http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=25
http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=289

Thanks for the advice and the link to the website, seems to be more common then i thought. This weekend we are going to build the broody box and give that a try.

edmund_blackadder

Quite a lot of rain yesterday ... so one of the chickens (after only having them since last Sunday) decided to come and have a nosey in the kitchen and keep dry!

:rotfl:

nik0510

Hello everyone, a quick question if i may, I have a broody hen, today is day 21, i went to the allotment to check on her, i can hear a cheeping sound and when i looked at the egg there is a small hole, how long will it take for the chick to break out totally, she started with 12 eggs, now she has two left, i am so excited, i love my girls and feel really responsible for them,
Nik

tru

edmund_blackadder wrote: »

Quite a lot of rain yesterday ... so one of the chickens (after only having them since last Sunday) decided to come and have a nosey in the kitchen and keep dry!

:rotfl:

Mine do that too, two of them sit on the floor and the other flies up onto the draining board and stares into the sink

KAAT_LADY

nik0510 wrote: »

Hello everyone, a quick question if i may, I have a broody hen, today is day 21, i went to the allotment to check on her, i can hear a cheeping sound and when i looked at the egg there is a small hole, how long will it take for the chick to break out totally, she started with 12 eggs, now she has two left, i am so excited, i love my girls and feel really responsible for them,
Nik

What has happened to the other eggs Nik,,if she started with 12..

tomorrow she should have the chick :T:T

nik0510

Hi Kaat Lady,

She rolled the rest out, one by one , my nephew went up to the allotment tonight to check and there is one tiny yellow chick, took the kids up to see after tea but could only hear it, haven't looked at other egg, really happy, she has sat for 5 weeks so i am glad one has hatched.:j
Best wishes
Nik

KAAT_LADY

hi there Nik,, hope to goodness its a hen and not a cockerel,,lol

edmund_blackadder

tru wrote: »

Mine do that too, two of them sit on the floor and the other flies up onto the draining board and stares into the sink

It would appear that the other 2 are also as nosey now too.

Just as I was about to go out and put them back in their run, all 3 of them appeared in the kitchen to have a general mooch about.