[sneezer]

We have 2 ex-free range hens, when we got them over a year ago they were very small and quite bald, but one of them looked a different colour and slightly larger then the other 'brown hens', she has now blossomed into a large, soft thick feathered ginger hen who squawks alot! In March she started to go abit 'spring mad' she escaped made a nest in a bush stopped laying, when she started to lay it was in her nest! However the last couple of days she is permanently in her nest, when I take her out (all hot and sweaty ) she makes a rosey sound (not heard before), but this seems to send the other one crazy and she attacks her- I'm surprised how the brown hen has still got a natural instinct to send her back to the nest!!(if that is what is happening), I even have to take her out and put her in the coop at night, which she hates, my Mum said just throw a blanket over her!! I love my hens and there seems to be something new to fascinate me each day!!!

[joyfull]

yes she is certainly broody which is wonderful considering her past. If you want to hatch chicks then get a little broody coop and some fertile eggs, otherwise you need to keep removing the eggs and keep her off the nest.

[sneezer]

I also think its lovely! She hasn't laid for a few days but I have been taking her off to feed and have a drink, under supervision because of the other one! What a naughty thing to say getting a broody coop and having little ones!!esp. as there are some adorable photos at the moment!!  

[Sassy]

Naughty but very nice. I wish one of mine would go broody. I wished this last year and theyear before  But they only seem to go broody if you aren't interested in chicks