For months we've had a broody chicken, Blackie. You've seen her before on our blog. This is the second time she's gone broody. The first time was for several weeks, then one day she just hopped out of the coop as if nothing happened. She stayed out a few weeks, then went broody again and has been ever since. It's been at least a month or two. We actually started discussing butchering her. After all, the purpose of a hen is to provide eggs and well, she's not. To make matters worse, she seems to have taught two other hens how to be broody... one of our Buff Orphingtons and an Ameracauna went broody also. Fantastic!
So last weekend we started disucssing butchering again. Then out of the blue, Blackie started coming out of the coop a little bit. So we watched and held off butchering. Then she started coming out each day just like the other girls. And it seemed that if Blackie was going to come out, the Buff and the Ameracauna didn't have any interest in staying in the coop either, so they've been coming out every day too! FINALLY!
That's not to say she/they won't go broody again, but 1) we can hope and 2) at least our egg production will be up in the meantime.
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