meg back in the shed again

[pottymoo]

well I knew it wouldn't be long before meg my partridge pekin would go broody again yesterday was day 2 but when I turfed her off the egg she then went around the run having a go at all the little ones picking a fight with raisin my baby cockrel who will be 14 weeks this week. hackles up bum feathers fanned she was on a mission of terror. I thought enough is enough she is doing my head in so she spent a very lonely night in the shed in the dog cage. She will spend another 3 nights and days in there and then I will try her in the run again and see if it breaks her, it worked a treat last time, that was when I integrated the babies. I can't beleive they are going to be 14 weeks old, where does the time go. Meg has never bitten me whilst broody but fans her feathers out and puts her hackles up, I just show her I am boss and what I say goes moo x

[monkeymummy]

She can join my Rosebud Pekins who is on day 2 of solitary! Silly girl bald belly and so skinny as she keeps going broody!

[pottymoo]

aw, why do they do this to themselves silly girls. I could do with going broody, I need to lose a few pounds or boulders I went to docs with my knee on friday as I had enough and got some anti inflammatories and of course you can't drink with them. She is driving me mad the others certainly don't miss her when she is in there plus they get the chance to lay their eggs instead of her being in the way.
When she is broody she guards the coop. I just hope my 3 silkie cross hens don't get broody too often moo x

[spodski]

I love mine going broody, so much easier than the incubator, and so much cheaper. I breed Siciliana and they are excellent mothers! I have also got a Speckled Sussex that is broody at the moment with 13 eggs under her bum!
Regards,
Lynn

[pottymoo]

ooooh 13 i do hope you get a lucky hatch then moo x

[Barley]

Lynn, are they Speckled Sussex eggs ?????
I so love my speckled Sussex but it is a real job to find any out here.We were lucky enough to buy one from the poutry sale along with a Silver Sussex.
A friend of mine had one of our fertile eggs and it turned out to be a speckled Sussex croos with a red Sussex..............
Lovely little thing it is too !!!!
Good luck with the eggs

Lin x x

[Littlechick]

Its a shame isn't it Moo? You would think they would learn, but it's those hormones telling them what to do, they have no say in it poor girls. I have two Buff Sussex bantams broody (AGAIN). Wish I had known how broody they were going to be, I might have had second thoughts! The four of them take it in turns, two at a time!

[monkeymummy]

I feel so sorry for Rosebud, clucking gently away to herself. I think she is a nice broody from the sound of it - she is so dazed when I put her on the grass to have a wander about she just looks as if to say 'huh, how did I get here?'. I am concerned about her rapid weight loss tho - but being broody twice so quickly together hasn't helped and her chest/tummy is like I have taken a wax strip to her!!