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 Post subject: Re: How young will a chook go clucky?
PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 7:38 am 
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Petite Poulet wrote:
Has anything upset her to make her so steadfast as with the nesting feather plucking sounds rather OC.

I don't think so. She's 3rd in the pecking order, so not sure if that has anything to do with her not getting out as often. Maybe if she was no.1 she may feel more confident about leaving her eggs?

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Possibly may have waited to put the fertile eggs under Clara after moving her rather than before, girls are very temperamental with such things.



I know I was really in two minds whether to get the eggs for her to sit on, but didn't want her to turn into a psyco chook if I kept denying her this experience & lose her to compulsive bloodiness. I am hoping by getting her the eggs that her behavior will stay normal. Not that I think not getting off for at least a toilet break is considered normal behavior. So maybe she is going to be a chook with (hopefully) only a hint of OCD. hide:


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 Post subject: Re: How young will a chook go clucky?
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Chicka-Dee wrote:
She's 3rd in the pecking order, so not sure if that has anything to do with her not getting out as often. Maybe if


Possibly scared of a take over bid. That's why best to isolate a broody hen sitting on a clutch in their own accommodation; they can live in freedom from fear of jealous rival hens wanting to steal their clutch.

Gas mask when she does decide to go for a toilet break :shock: Don't know how long a sitting hen can go without having to defecate...

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 Post subject: Re: How young will a chook go clucky?
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Petite Poulet wrote:
Gas mask when she does decide to go for a toilet break :shock: Don't know how long a sitting hen can go without having to defecate...
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Me either but I went in there before and checked behind her to see if she had done a no.2 while in the box & when I lifted her tail feathers & put my hand down there I accidentally tickled her and she farted and I had my head down there looking for evidence and the smell nearly threw me against the wall! [smilie=rlp_smilie_207.gif]

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Possibly scared of a take over bid.

I would say that is a definite possibility PP.

I will let you know how we go with the move. Might do that tonight as it appears (based on your links to previous post) that others feel night time is best time to move a broody.


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 Post subject: Re: How young will a chook go clucky?
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Chicka-Dee wrote:
I accidentally tickled her and she farted and I had my head down there looking for evidence and the smell nearly threw me against the wall! [smilie=rlp_smilie_207.gif]


A very organic perfume...

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 Post subject: Re: How young will a chook go clucky?
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Chicka-Dee wrote:
I accidentally tickled her and she farted


Did you use a feather to tickle her with?

Gave one of our girls a bottom bath...Hubby thought I was crazy, maybe he was jealous, thinks I spend more time with the chooks than him, but she had poop stuck around her vent, re hydrated chook poop being washed off, don't think it competes with a broody breaking one...The things we do for our chooks...

Good luck with the night relocation mission.

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 Post subject: Re: How young will a chook go clucky?
PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:18 pm 
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Petite Poulet wrote:
A very organic perfume...

I'm into organics but that is taking it a little too far!
Hens and Hobbits wrote:
Did you use a feather to tickle her with?
Good luck with the night relocation mission.

No, no feather HH, I just slid my hand down & underneath, & it must have been enough for her to go bfffffffft-pooof. Gotcha! [smilie=rlp_smilie_207.gif]

On another note:
I successfully moved Clara & the eggs into a new enclosure today so she has no competition or threats. She finally got off the nest to have something to eat, drink & a toilet break, so I took my chance to move her. Boy, she was not happy when she went back to her nest & the eggs were gone. She fluffed up to twice the size, so I grabbed her & took her straight to her eggs in the other pen. She happily jumped up and on to them and settled in for the rest of the day & night.

Gee I hope we get some babies out if this. I've been reading about everyone elses failures & I don't feel real confident with so many stories of bad things happening.


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 Post subject: Re: How young will a chook go clucky?
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Gee I hope we get some babies out if this. I've been reading about everyone elses failures & I don't feel real confident with so many stories of bad things happening.


Great thing is this forum, as a n00bie I have learnt so many things about broody hens, nesting, hatching, raising chicks and eventually letting them go (massive separation anxiety from me) etc. All comes to experience and learning from experience and learning to take advice and accept advice.

He/she who hesitates is lost, more advice from my mother, please no more underwear references in regards to advice their mother's gave them. You don't know unless you give Clara the chance to sit and you've given her the opportunity to fulfill her maternal instinct so given the fact that she is a determined mother to be and she is on her own, then you all deserve chicks hatching...

What is the difference between using a feather or the whole chook to tickle with :shock:

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 Post subject: Re: How young will a chook go clucky?
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Hens and Hobbits wrote:
What is the difference between using a feather or the whole chook to tickle with :shock:

I don't know HH. What is the difference. Is one kinky & the other Perverse? sidesplit.gif

I am regularly quoting peoples experiences back to my hubby after reading the forum, so I have to agree that as a newbie their are so many things you gain from this forum.

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 Post subject: Re: How young will a chook go clucky?
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Day 6 and Clara is sitting steady in her new nest

Still hasn't gotten off since Saturday, so maybe it doesn't have anything to do with fear of a takeover bid and more about it being her first time and not real confident about getting off and leaving them. Who knows.....could be a million things. Either way she is being a super first timer so cudo's to her for being so consistent.


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awwww she's so pretty.... hope she makes a fantastic mother.


She looks so cosy...

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