I think ourselves lucky that at the moment we are only having one girl go broody at a time but it does seem to be working it’s way through the little girls.
The little girls lay, on average, every other day. Apricot has now laid ten eggs in twenty two days. The last egg that she laid, she stayed sitting on. I took her out of the nest box and she kept returning. At bedtime she was still in there and I moved her to the chicken shed and closed the nest boxes.
The next day she was in the nest box every time I went out to the girls and I just kept removing her. This seems to break them out of it after about three days. She is docile and easy to handle but the tell tail sign (excuse the pun) is that when I open up the nest box her tail goes up. I now know that this is the sign of a broody serama.
Broody Apricot
She does look so cute though, with her tail up over her back.
I kept taking her out of the nest box every time I went into the run and it only took two days before she was staying out of the nest box. It was good to see her having a good time in a dust bath once more.
As this was short lived I would imagine she would start laying again in about a week. I wonder who will be next to go broody!
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Nice picture of Apricot in the nest box.
She is a pretty girl. We had our friends from across the road to lunch on Sunday. They have two little boys. I held Apricot for them to stroke and they were amazed at how soft her feathers are. They said they were more like fur. They are actually more like hair than feathers. She is so friendly and her feathers are so soft as you can see in this photo.
She does look so very cute; pleased that you have another one who, even if she does go broody, is not feisty. I let 5 out of the anti-broody crate last night and think I’ve ‘broken’ them – but there are another 2 to go in today!
She is a real little cutie. I am broody free for the moment. You do seem to have a constant round of broodies, I feel for you.