Broody chickens

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Broody chickens
« on: August 16, 2009, 16:24 »
We have two wyandott bantam chickens.cloe and zoe who go broody every 4 or 5 weeks would welcome any advise..also zoe pecks and runs at cloe hurting her quite bad at times I know hens have a pecking order but what she does is way out of line.
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Re: Broody chickens
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2009, 16:27 »
Hi, collect any eggs as soon as possible after laying or invest in rollaway inserts for your nesting boxes this way they have no eggs to sit on. As for the pecking you can buy beak clips, and you could try one of these on the aggressive chicken  :)
Staffies are softer than you think.

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Re: Broody chickens
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2009, 19:07 »
same as above  ;)

Re: Broody chickens
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2009, 09:46 »
Thanks both of you.Things seem a bit better this morning,But they are both still not laying usualy lasts about 3 or 4 weeks then they are back to laying for 3 0r 4 weeks then broody again.I wonder if there's any scraps they shouldn't eat they have laying pellets plus scraps.
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