Broody Tennessee Red!!!!

[007Sean]

Don't know what will become of this? She may continue to sit or she may quit? She's in an enclosure that is all female birds, including the Ringnecked hen that lost her ovaries and a post-perotinitus Reeves hen. A pen for 'misfits'!

She was setting on infertile eggs, (6) so I switched them out with fertile eggs. She is setting 'up house' in the corner of the sheltered part of the enclosure.

Maybe I'll have another 'Awesome Surprise'!!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/awesome-surprise.1422275/

Post menopausal Ringnecked hen!

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

Very curious to see how she does!

 

[eddie_van_quailen]

Wow, egg-citing! I love the broody-poof posture

 

[007Sean]

Wow, egg-citing! I love the broody-poof posture

Yeah, she does that if you try to disturb her....otherwise she's flat as a pancake on the eggs!

 

[Mallards and Quail]

Don't know what will become of this? She may continue to sit or she may quit? She's in an enclosure that is all female birds, including the Ringnecked hen that lost her ovaries and a post-perotinitus Reeves hen. A pen for 'misfits'!

She was setting on infertile eggs, (6) so I switched them out with fertile eggs. She is setting 'up house' in the corner of the sheltered part of the enclosure.

Maybe I'll have another 'Awesome Surprise'!!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/awesome-surprise.1422275/

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Post menopausal Ringnecked hen!
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Thats amazing. Keep us updated

 

[Mantisquailman]

Any updates on the broody hen?

 

[007Sean]

Well, it didn't last long....while feeding and watering this afternoon, she wasn't setting on the eggs and they had been scattered (by what?) I don't know!
Anyway, she may try again?...don't know that for 100% either!

 

[Mantisquailman]

That happened to me just a week ago, with one of my pharo quail, she sat on the eggs a few days and then she got off

 

[eddie_van_quailen]

Well, it didn't last long....while feeding and watering this afternoon, she wasn't setting on the eggs and they had been scattered (by what?) I don't know!
Anyway, she may try again?...don't know that for 100% either!

Well! It was fun while it lasted!

 

[Mantisquailman]

Yep.