first time broody

Hello all, hatching day is TOMORROW and I am feeling slightly neurotic wanting to be prepared. Equal parts excited and nervous. Using this thread to document the experience for my own sanity. Had one of my Buff Orpingtons go broody in February and I couldn’t break her of it, so got three...

Bit the bullet and finally bought some chicks from TSC. I've heard mixed opinions on the sexing for TSC chicks, so I'm a little nervous! These little guys are for my extremely broody Delaware, 'Helen'. This is also our first time letting a broody raise chicks, so a bit nervous about that as...

Hello all! 1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?2) How many chickens do you have right now? Excited to be here! My name is Kimberly, and I am new to backyard chickens (and ducks)! I have not gotten the little guys as of yet, but I am picking up some chicks (and...

This is our Daisy, she’s gone broody and we gave her 9 of her and her sisters’ eggs to hatch. This is day 2 😍 I found incubating to be so stressful so I’m really excited to see how she does. She’s in our little bantam cochin flock of three hens & their beautiful rooster. She’s somehow even...

Hi all - I am a first time chicken owner and I had no intentions on hatching chicks but one of my hens had other plans. I’m sorry for the long post ahead but I’m trying to give as much info as possible to get an answer. If it helps, I live in New Zealand (Northland) I can’t be sure but I think...

My silkie hen is about 7 months old now and for the first time ever she is broody. My concern is that we are in mid October. We live in central Louisiana , it does get cold in the winter (40s in the day, 30s at night during the January-February months) I know it isn’t the coldest environment by...

Hi, I have a Light Sussex which has went broody. This is her first time and she is around 1 year old. I have read broody hen only comes out for food 1-2 times a day. But she comes out 5-6 times a day. She puffs up when she is outside and does go back to sit again but I don’t think those...

Hello! Our first time with a broody hen! She is our own hybrid from my first incubated hatch last year. She is on day 15 on her clutch. I candled the eggs and She will have chicks. My question is, I am worried about the chicken tractor she is in for navigating baby chicks in..or rather out...

Hi all, I am currently having my first experience with broody hens. My husband has been doing the main chicken chores of feeding, changing water, and collecting eggs. When he went to collect the eggs, our first broody hen (white bird) bit him and he left her have the eggs. That was a few...

I have two broodys on the same nest. There are 4 eggs. The eggs are not theirs. The eggs are due to hatch Monday. One broody is a Japanese bantam. The other is half D’ Uccle/half LF. Neither one has ever brooded a clutch before or raised chicks before. They’re both just under a year old...

OHMAGOSH! I went out to put our flock to bed and little Pepper - the sweetest of our girls - hopped up on the roosting shelf and started growling - I kid you not - growling at me! She then fluffed herself up as big as her 20 ounces could go, tucked her "chin" down low into her ruff and gave me...