Re: eggs going cold


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Unfortunately she is consistantly broody - she only laid for about six
weeks
this year, and has been broody ever since. This is the third clutch so
far
this year she has sat on.

Then she will be VERY undercondition - starving.
And if she is getting off she is NOT consistantly broody

BREAK her NOW
give her a chance to get her condition back up to something near normal
before the winter or you WILL lose her
She is SO hungry she is starving.
A bird that is brooding -- even badly -- is eating a minute proportion of
that which her peers are each day
13 weeks of starving herself plus the other weeks of raising young and not
concentrating on herself - I am not surprised she is inconsistant
Add to that the heat stress of this year and, if anyone had such a
measurement, you would probably find she is dehydrated too

I do bring her food and water supplements each evening after I have let the
others out to roam the garden, and let her feed and drink in peace for
twenty minutes, but I understand what you are saying. Also, I didn't make
myself quite clear,in respect that although she has been broody most of the
year she has only sat on clutches for seven weeks in total this year, and
has only raised one chick. My araucana went broody about a month ago, and
because they were sitting at the same time I gave the chick to her to raise
(they swapped which eggs they sat on at times so I wasn't sure who was
sitting on which eggs) as the cuckoo maran's clutch didn't make it.

Break her and give the next eggs you want to hatch to something else
This little girl is going to be in a BAD way if she is not already


Believe me I have tried, but obviously not hard enough. At one point in
late spring, I remember for a week locking her out of the run from first
thing in the morning. She spent most of the day sitting on the caged roof,
with the cockerel crowing at her. After the week was up, it just seemed all
i was achieving was distressing her, so I stopped doing that and left her to
sit. Any idea how i can break her with better chance of success? I
remember reading about placing her on a wire cage, (though it seemed that's
what she was doing the week she was out).

I think I'm going to just take my chances with this lot for this year,

For the sake of this hen
DONT, please

IF you need more birds buy them in

No i don't 'need' any more, but I can afford the space for some extras, and
naively thought I was doing her a favour too by allowing her to sit on some
eggs :-( I didn't realise they could 'broody themselves to death' so to
say. She did this for a lot of summer last year, but thankfully she was
fine - but this year has been more full on, so i do need to act.

Give this bird a chance to get some condition for the winter


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Jill Bowis

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