So one of my chickens (Buff Orpington) is broody af.
I’ve tried putting her out of the nesting boxes with the others, but she kept running back inside, then I tried closing up the coop, which forced the rest of my poor girls to have lay in the grass clippings and she squawked bloody murder the whole afternoon - following me from basement window to basement window. Tried to come inside the kitchen door to tell me off, but my dog herded her back outside.
She wound up on the roof of the coop, fluffed up, screeching and idk what she was thinking to gain from that.
Broody hens - for non-chicken keepers - are basically hens who’ve decided they are going to sit on eggs until they hatch and they will not eat or drink until there’s some baby chicks for her to mother. I do not own a rooster, so I can’t help her that way unfortunately. All we got is unfertilized eggs, and basically if she waits for the impossible to happen she’s likely going to die of starvation and dehydration.
Also, brooding is contagious and ALL of my chickens are Orpingtons so yikes.
In the end I had to put her in her own crate with food and water and no nesting whatsoever, just a perch. Yup, chicken jail.
She’s NOT a happy chicken, I can hear her having an absolute fit from inside the house.
