Rural/Farm Life

dixiegrrrrl

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2. What is your goal?

Reply to womanofthehills (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 04:10 PM

Jul 2013

If you do not want more chicks, or if the eggs are not fertile, just take the eggs away daily.
Broody hens won't starve or die of thirst, so she will will lay an egg a day anyhow.
Eventually when she realizes there are no eggs hatching out, she will re join the flock.
That has been my experience anyhow.

FWIW...we had 2 of ours go broody in late May...one hen produced 3 female and one male chicks,
the other hen,after setting the same lengtrh of time, left the nest and we had to toss the eggs.
Apparenlty she was not as fertile as she thought she was.

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How have you dealt with a broody hen? [View all] womanofthehills Jul 2013 OP

I don't know how to discourage a hen from setting once they are determined to do so. Arkansas Granny Jul 2013 #1

What is your goal? dixiegrrrrl Jul 2013 #2

my solution was always extra-crispy, with cole slaw on the side..... lastlib Jul 2013 #3

I let them set. LWolf Jul 2013 #4

That is what I did this year. Put a big x on a couple of the eggs and let her keep those. nt Mojorabbit Jul 2013 #5

Build a small separate cage PuraVidaDreamin Jul 2013 #6

Thanks for all the suggestions womanofthehills Jul 2013 #7

I have had some sucess with this method truegrit44 Aug 2013 #8