What is clucky (broody)?
It’s when a hen decides to sit on her eggs for days, sometimes weeks on end in hopes of hatching her (or another hen’s) eggs. The eggs won’t hatch because they have not been fertilized by a rooster (because I don’t have one). The chicken becomes anxious and bad-tempered with a tendency to peck at anyone or any other hen coming close to the nest. One other thing to note is that she also stops laying…. Not good!
This is a pic of my clucky hen
I try to keep her out of the coop to discourage her from sitting in the nest. Since she sits all day long she has already lost a bit of weight which isn’t healthy for an already small hen.
She can’t get in, so she paces the ramp
Since the others need to lay (earn their keep!), I have to put her in the “dunce box” for a couple of hours while the others go to work- with food and water provided of course…
Classy, huh?
Fortunately, out of my 6 chickens, 4 are laying so, one nest will do. The other two will come in to season next month. At which point I hope my clucker has come right…
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