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a broody hen that never laid eggs? is the hen there all the time? is she perhaps eggbound? does she eat and drink? if eggbound she might be dying .. please tell me more
AnswerShe may be brooding. If you wish to hatch some fertile eggs, put them under her. If you want to break her from this cycle, pen her separate without a nest box. Another ThoughtShe might just be sleepingAnother thought:
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What I did when this happened
I gave my bantam 5 fertilized eggs to sit on for 21 days. She is so happy now.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 15y agoit's keeping the egg warm so it won't freeze to death or it could be guarding it which l doubt
You have yourself a broody hen, congratulations! You will be the proud owner of new chicks in about 21 days. The mother hen lays a clutch of eggs, anywhere from 3 to 20 depending on her size. Not all the eggs may be her own as other hens may lay close to her and she will gather them all under her. She will stop foraging for food and only leave the nest for food/water and defecation.
Now this only works if you have a rooster in the flock, hens can go broody even without a rooster but the eggs will not be viable (fertilized). If there is no chance the eggs are fertile then you might as well remove the eggs as she is just wasting her time.
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∙ 13y agoSome breeds of hens naturally want to sit. Other breeds of chickens don't sit well or go broody. As humans have bred different types for different reasons, we have bred out the instinct of sitting for some breeds.
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∙ 11y agoLet them sit if you want the eggs to hatch into chicks...Take the eggs away if you don't want the eggs to hatch, don't want chicks, or want the hen to continue to just lay eggs...Hens will lay eggs without a rooster, but the eggs will not be fertile and they will not hatch into chicks
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∙ 10y agoThere are no true indicators of when a hen will start to brood except she will simply gather a clutch of eggs and then remain on the eggs. Some breeds can become protective and "out of character" once over the clutch.
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∙ 14y agoI have had chickens sit on other chicken's eggs, not necessarily taking turns, but taking over if she is broody and the layer wasn't. I also have had two hens sit on the same nest.
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∙ 12y agoYou don't! Egg hatching is a nature, many chickens won't do it. If she is hatching them she'll be there for more than 20 hours a day and she will be very agressive!
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∙ 14y agoshe burrys it in a dark space
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∙ 11y agoMainly in the spring time.
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∙ 13y agoNo, not all will.
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How do you know if a hen is clucking?
A broody hen is easy to spot. The hen will remain on the nest when the other hens are going about their daily routine. The hen will often be aggressive when you reach in to remove her eggs. If you remove the hen from her clutch of eggs she will often run right back to the nest, protesting loudly. The broody hen will not roost with the other birds but remain on the nest over night.
What is a brooding hen?
A brooding hen is when a hen is raising chicks, protecting them, teaching them to find food, and hovering over them to keep them warm.
Riddle Why did the hen always lift eggs?
She Needed the Eggs Ercise
Does only the hen hatch eggs?
No. Only hens lay eggs but hen hatched eggs are only found on small farms. Most fertilized eggs are artificially incubated and the chicks never see the hen who laid them. Chicken do not really benefit from the mother hen all that much anyway. Chicks are born able to feed themselves and instinctively know how to be a chicken. If you are asking if the rooster helps the hen incubate the clutch of eggs, then no, once the rooster has mated with the hen he is not involved.
Hen sits in the hen house on what?
They sit in the hen house on eggs, on the roost or in a nest.
What age can hens breed?
You know when a hen is ready to start laying eggs when her comb drops, and her face feathers are full and have lost the "pinkish" color.
What name is given to a hen ready to lay eggs?
Point of Lay (abbr. POL)
What do you do if your hen is sitting on unfertilized eggs?
Remove the eggs. You can replace them with eggs you know are from another bird who was active with a rooster. Your broody hen won't care.
How do you know if a hen is clucking?
A broody hen is easy to spot. The hen will remain on the nest when the other hens are going about their daily routine. The hen will often be aggressive when you reach in to remove her eggs. If you remove the hen from her clutch of eggs she will often run right back to the nest, protesting loudly. The broody hen will not roost with the other birds but remain on the nest over night.
What is a brooding hen?
A brooding hen is when a hen is raising chicks, protecting them, teaching them to find food, and hovering over them to keep them warm.
Explain what the mother hen do to ensure that her eggs are turned and kept at the corrrect temperature for hatching?
The mother hen usually covers all her eggs to make sure that they are kept at the correct temperature for hatching and uses its beak to turn the egg over .
Riddle Why did the hen always lift eggs?
She Needed the Eggs Ercise
How do you fertillize eggs?
You should let rooster stay with the hen. The rooster will know what to do next.
Does only the hen hatch eggs?
No. Only hens lay eggs but hen hatched eggs are only found on small farms. Most fertilized eggs are artificially incubated and the chicks never see the hen who laid them. Chicken do not really benefit from the mother hen all that much anyway. Chicks are born able to feed themselves and instinctively know how to be a chicken. If you are asking if the rooster helps the hen incubate the clutch of eggs, then no, once the rooster has mated with the hen he is not involved.
Does a hen have to sit on her eggs?
As far as I know, yes. But if the hen who is laying on the eggs happens to pass, then it is best to keep it in warm weather to keep the egg(s) alive. A broody hen will only set when she has collected enough eggs to brood a clutch. For about a week before settling down she will move around like any other hen but return to the clutch often. A hen must remain on the clutch to keep them warm and humid is she is actually incubating the eggs.
Will one hen sit on another hens eggs?
yes they will my hen was sitting on eggs of hers that wernt fertilised. So i bought some eggs from a animal park and swaped the eggs over. They hatched out. Though she never realised they were a compleat differant bread than her. Hope this helps =)
Why won't my chicken get off the eggs?
Your hen has gone "broody". This means she is ready to incubate the clutch of eggs she has gathered and will sit on them for the next 21 days. She will remain on the clutch until the eggs ( or most of them) have hatched unless you remove the eggs from under her.
