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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: vickylouxx on February 05, 2010, 02:13:56 pm

Title: first egg
Post by: vickylouxx on February 05, 2010, 02:13:56 pm

hi just wanted to know when hens first lay do they go straight into brooding , got 10 point off lay isa browns on 10th jan had first egg this morning but hen not happy i took it and is now sitting on her nest

Title: Re: first egg
Post by: doganjo on February 05, 2010, 06:52:26 pm

My girls have started again - at last. winter may be over!  3 eggs today!  Still no ducks though I think they are on strike!

Hi Vickylou, your hen may be broody but I haven't found that it is particularly when they start laying. Did you try to move her out or just leave her? 

Title: Re: first egg
Post by: little blue on February 05, 2010, 07:13:31 pm

She may just be sulking?!
ISA browns (warrens) shouldnt go broody too much, though we have one that seems to now and again. It is more of a sulk though! 

Title: Re: first egg
Post by: vickylouxx on February 05, 2010, 07:51:25 pm

hi she has decided to move all the straw from the other nesting boxes into one a sit there attacking any thing that goes near her , rung my brother has he keeps hens and his lost as to why !!! she acting like this hoping for more eggs though lol

Title: Re: first egg
Post by: little blue on February 05, 2010, 07:55:34 pm

put some thick gloves on!  Move her & remove eggs, replace with pot ones until she decides to shift
does sound broody

Title: Re: first egg
Post by: vickylouxx on February 05, 2010, 08:33:25 pm

thanks little blue , grrr and she only just oldenth to lay eggs oh well its all fun