![]() Hens raised without roosters can’t lay fertile eggs, but they can still go broody and attempt to sit on a clutch of eggs. This is all fine and dandy if your chicken does have eggs to hatch, but sometimes, a chicken will sit on unfertilized eggs or even imaginary eggs. The telltale symptom of a broody hen is a sudden display of motherly instinct: sitting on a nest to keep the eggs warm for several hours a day, putting the babies’ needs in front of hers and making sure the eggs are well protected. Their hormones kick in overtime, much as women’s do when they’re pregnant, and they focus all of their energy into hatching eggs. It switches on as soon as they’re old enough to lay, between five and eight months old. What does it mean when a chicken is broody?īroodiness is a natural chicken instinct that happens to some chickens every year, and others not at all. Method #4: Lock your broody hen out of the coop.Method #3: Give your broody hen a (gentle!) cold water bath. ![]()
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