[mentalmilly]

Yes Stereo l agree about the wellsummers.  They are a dipsy lot and l wouldn`t trust them to sit for long.  My best broodies are maran, indian game, and light sussex. 

[bloomer]

well she's still sat tight, im trying to find some eggs that i can collect before i risk ebay etc...


apparently she will sit on legbar eggs if thats all thats available!!!


my mission for the next 2 days is to sort a broody coop and source some eggs,


do i move her first before introducing eggs?


never had a broody as much info as possible on meeting her needs please people!!!

[goosepimple]

Well one of my welsummer girls is determined to sit and the other's are laying on top of her    as it's the favourite space,  so I just put some marked call duck eggs under, then I lift her up at the end of the day, take the fresh hen eggs and plonk her down again and she's still sitting quite happily on the call duck eggs[size=78%].  [/size]



Once the broody hormones have really kicked in it's hard to stop them.


You can take them and dunk them in a basin of cold water (don't submerge them obviously) and hold them there for a minute or two, you need to 'shock' them out of it and take them off heat.  It does work but you might have to do it more than once.  Sounds barbaric but Hugh FW did it once on River Cottage and it doesn't hurt them.  It takes a lot out of them being broody and sitting so if you really don't want it then it's best to do it asap.

[bloomer]

mrs b has decreed that her hormones have a right to be heard (i dont argue with mrs b about hormones)


so broody coop and hatching eggs are tomorrows to do list...

[FiB]

Its a lovely experience for the kids to see eggs hatch from under a broody... go-on Bloomer...go-on!!

Yep! Give in! You can only fight nature so much!

[in the hills]

I'd move her first and see if she stays broody.

Our pekins for example stay broody whatever you do  but some of our other breeds tend to give up once they're moved to the broody coop.

You might buy eggs and then she's not sitting tight ... unless you have an incy that you can set up in case.

 

[doganjo]

Can't you just shut all of them out of the coop every morning, and not let them back in till night time?

[bloomer]

She is being a cow and mean to the rest so tomorrow she will be put in isolation,


I have sourced both Maran and CCL eggs for her so it looks like my little flock is about to grow again...

[plumseverywhere]

Good plan    we tried the leaving a broody in main coop last year and she hissed and dominated the other females so badly that they started laying all over the garden (mainly under bramble bushes) and it was very hard to convince them to lay back in their boxes again.

good luck with the hatch 

[ellied]

Well I hope you get lots of FEMALE chicks as you know I'm still on the waiting list..

Mrs B and her hormones get my vote, chicks is the way to go! 

[bloomer]

just trying to sort her broody coop but its horrid here currently and i dont want to go outside!!!

[doganjo]

just trying to sort her broody coop but its horrid here currently and i dont want to go outside!!!

Hope it's dry tomorrow, or my tame monkeys won't be able to climb