Thank you for your helpful information. We used the bath technique only twice and our lovely hen is now back in the yard with her flock, looking healthy and happy again. PS Our hen totally enjoyed her bath and she was NOT stressed at all. :)
I tried it after my hen kept sleeping in the nesting box and preventing other hens from laying in the box for about 3 weeks. This cold water method worked immediately. All other methods failed. Thank you for your video it really worked.
I was just thinking, it is tremendously good that you teach the young kids how to keep chickens and look after them in the way you show in this video, taking into consideration we will always need eggs and chickens
My grandmother in Cyprus had hens and my father who is now in his 60s remembers her dunking the hens in water to help them. It didn't harm them. Thank you for the video :)
We tried this putting her in some cold water for a few minutes. It worked . So glad I found this advice. Really good tip! Our chicken wasn't stressed. She just went very quiet dried off in sun and went back to her old self! Phew!
I once had a hen that was egg bound. I used the dunking method to help resolve the problem and it worked great! Freed up the bound egg and today she is perfectly healthy and laying lots of eggs. I don't at all feel that it was "inhumane" to use the dunking method. What is inhumane is to let an animal suffer needlessly through a difficult situation without trying to help them in whatever way you possibly can. I now have a young Ancona that has recently gone broody. I will be trying this with her the first chance I get. Thanks for the upload! I found it very usefull and informative! Cheers!
Thanks very much guys - I tried the cage method and it didn't work so very keen to give this a go. She looked like she was really enjoying it so l hope our hen Mimi will feel the same. Cheers, Dianne
I approve this video. Thanks you so much for this very informative about some problems with brooding hens. I lost hens in the past for not knowing what to do when she brood to her death. Thanks you so much for sharing.
I just want to thank you for this advice. My hen has been the terror of the coop. The other hens were attacked by her when they came in to lay eggs. Today I filled a large tub with water. I let it sit for two hours then made her sit for 8 minutes. She was so mad but it worked. Thanks for this advice. My sweet hen is back.
This is great! Thanks for the video showing how calm a bird can be during this process. I've heard of a hen starving herself to death since there were no fertile eggs. Our hen has been sitting on absolutely nothing for days now and unless we carry her out, she refuses to eat. Personally this seems more humane than a few days in a wire cage waiting to cool off. Not saying that's a bad way to go either, but a quick cool off seems better. I'll give this a try today.
One of my Buff Orpington hens went broody on me a few days ago. I tried the separation method, and removing her from the nest (constantly) for a couple of days. Then, I came across you and your son's 5 minute water bath; that did the trick. Ginger is back with the flock and back to her normal self. Thanks to you both.
What a great help. My chicken was brooding and I knew there were no babies to be hatched and she would starve. She would not drink or eat. We have no roosters so all her work was in vain. I did not want her to die so I picked her up tonight and perched her with her female clan. I removed the eggs hoping she would go to the spot in the morning back to normal. Bless her heart waiting for babies in the spring. I think it was my fault not collecting the eggs as quickly as before. Several hens lay in the same spot and when this particular alpha-hen had a clutch of eggs she refused to move. Usually my Silkies were the brooders, but this hen was OCD and did not budge. It was more than I could bear (going on two weeks). Tonight, I just had to pick her up and I hugged her and put her with the other hens. I pray she will snap out of it tomorrow when she sees the eggs gone. Hens change when they brood. I was scared. It is like they go into a shut-down trance or something. I pray I acted on good merit to save her. It's as if I had to make her come back to reality so she could live.
I am so glad to find your video! I have a broody hen and I have removed her from the box several times. This has been going on for quite sometime. She has also pulled out all of her breast feathers. I do have fake eggs in the beatbox so, I will remove the eggs and try and put her in a bucket of water. Hope this does the trick. By the way, did you have to repeat this process?? I love your son's soccer outfit. He looks about the same age as my grandson who is 7. I am the teams coach.😳
I have 2 broody hens...and my father in law said that they would dunk the hens in water to cure it when he was a kid...i thought he was messing with me...guess not
gosh that is a big chicken. In the Army, they have a survival class that really sucks!!! but people love it, covet it, and are proud they made it after the fact. I did it in the winter and to feed us, they allowed us one chicken, one rabbit to kill, clean, cook, and eat. They takes on new dimensions with all the pole in your team are used to fast food, or grocery stove chicken (non with anything to do with rabbits, but pet them) Gosh, that night sucked.. but we ate, but thank goodness for butchers, food processing, and the delivery mechanism of the foam little cartons chicken comes in at the stores.
I've also heard of putting ice bottles under them. I'm not really comfortable trying any of this right now since it's winter but maybe in a few more months when it warms up.
Thanks for that I will try it tomorrow. I am also experiencing problems with feather pecking. The sprays are not working. I plan to move the two hens that have the most feathers out of the group tonight and leaving them in a run together for a time. Do you have any advice that might also help with this problem? Many Thanks.
My bloody hen prevented others from using the nest(for some reason they all wanted to use this one nest) and as,a result my favorite became eggbound and died. I immediately put the bloody in cold water. She was not happy, but please-these ridiculous comments of being inhumane! Broodiness causes too many problems, and the bloody hen will not eat or drink or poo until you take her off the nest FOR MONTHS. I hope it works!
My hen is alone no rooster and has stopped laying eggs and has been sitting on one of them so my husband changed it for a wooden egg and she wont get off of it or eat or drink. What must I do to help her? It's been 4 months.
This is surely the least stressful method because the hen just loses the sense of being broody, rather than upsetting her by removing the nest, putting her on wire or all the other methods which are drawn out and involve breaking her ability to sit. I did this today with my silkie after watching this video using tepid water, she got out of the bath and is now dust-bathing and hanging out with the other hens. I will definitely be sticking with this method! She was quite happy in the water just like your hen.
I’ve tried this with several broody hens and it’s never worked, but I haven’t done it for 3 minutes. I’m going to try tomorrow with a hen who’s constantly broody. I have broken the habit by removing from the coop for 4 to 5 days then she’s back to laying in about 2 weeks and lays just over a week and she’s broody again. She’s an arucana cross leghorn so its not that she’s a broody breed and her sisters have never been broody. She’s only 9 months old and now broody for I think the fifth time.
I am going to try this tomorrow on my little Buff Orpington. It took a little research for me to figure out what was going on with her as the little dictator isn't even sitting on one egg! As a new chicken keeper I also didn't know that a hen can go broody in the winter (or any time). All of the growling, puffing up and absolute resistance to staying off the nest is there though. Thanks for the info and I'll let you know if this worked for little hardheaded Penny!
My grandmother taught me this God Rest her soul, about 30 years ago I recommend it to people all the time hey, I have a rain thing that catches water and I usually do it in the early morning when the water is at the coolest especially in the summer months. Of course right now I have a Broody Leghorn and a Broody red sex links go figure the two most uncommon Broody hen period And I haven't had a Broody in 10 years so far it's worked on the Leghorn what's a red Sex Link is groovy really hard especially this week so I started giving her the cold water bath her a couple days ago.
Just did this about half an hour ago with a Maran that's been broody for close to a month. She was the last of our pullets to start laying, but quickly became one of our three best layers. I keep peeking out to check on her and she hasn't gone back to the nesting box (which is a very good sign), but is clucking at me disgustedly and preening at her feathers to try to dry them Lol! I will let you know how things progress, but thank you very much for the tip!
I sprayed my broody hen with the cold hose several times a day, in her own cage. Otherwise, she wouldn't eat or sleep for months! She did this every single year I had her. Also, it's not cruel if it's in the Summer months and warm out. I give my hens baths twice a year !
Like you said, although it might sound unusual, but your chicken was very calm in that water and imo she kinda liked it. Did I mention how beautiful she and your other chickens are? I love chickens so much. Thanks for the video :)
Thanks for the info ,chickens don't bite, lol they peck, I've not try ed this method but will try ,and good advice on getting eggs out each day ,spring makes all mine sit,it's been like pulling hens teeth ,for me ,somebody stop me,hope those sceptics didn't think you completely submerge them for 3 minutes lol some people look for a way to conflict, thanks again for info
The same people that complain about this are clueless and don't realize in real life they make worse descions than putting a hen in water to cool her area.
I’m 7 years late but glad to find this! We only have 3, but one has been broody for months and I didn’t know what to do. Going to try this. So…any advice on a really aggressive hen? Other than culling that is? She does lay. But she was raised from a few days old with us, yet is meaner than any rooster I have ever seen. Clearly I am no expert on chickens, but I have to put a milk crate over her just to clean the coop, and she sometimes successfully gets out from under it. The suggestion to subdue her by grabbing her legs and holding her upside down did not work. She is a Leghorn, on the small side if you ask me. But she will bow up to anyone fearlessly!
You can try establishing pecking order, meaning you need to be the alpha. To do this, anytime she tries to attack, hold the hen's head towards the ground for about half a minute. Keep repeating it until she stops attacking you. I did that with my rooster, I even taunt him to attack me, and when he does, I hold his head towards the ground, and after a few times of training, he usually steers clear of me. Holding their head towards the ground is a sign that they are weaker than their opponent, so they will be more obedient.
doing this is a great idea. they say its bad for them because they us to dunk them into ICE water, which sometimes killed the chicken due to the shock, but normal temp water is great for them.
Thanks, we're going to try this. One hen has been broody for 2 and a half months! We've tried putting frozen bottles and blue freezer bricks under her. No effect.
yup that's the way . even back here in rular Nepal we have been doing this to the brooding hens. we put them in water and cover it with net basket . and let them sit for few minutes.
Hello @NJRE! Thank you for the advice. I have been learning so much from this channel! We just started to raise chickens a few months ago, and I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to just have the chickens in an electric-fenced area with a few shelters and a homemade nesting area. What would be your advice?
Where do you think the the old farmers adage of, "Madder than an old wet hen" came from? My Grandpa used to dunk broody hens in an old rain barrel outside of the chicken coop when they got that way!
I think if it works from what i saw no harm came to the Chicken, And if it works that is what you do or have chicken for dinner from where i grew up. Good job thank you for the video.
I wish I saw this sooner. My girl Beatrice went into this broody mode and we took a drive up to Jersey Chickens and got her 2 fertile eggs and a 4 month old rooster. So the eggs hatched and she got her wish to be a mama but the poor teen rooster is being rejected by the rest of the hens. Rooster got beat up by the girls. They weren't very welcoming, lol. Next time I get a broody hen she'll be taking a dunk in the water like your, lol. Thanks for sharing!
At the end of your video, you say to contact you on anytime on UA-cam with any questions. So why do you have 177 comments and I've only seen one reply from you? Just wondering??
Many questions get answered within the group. But the truth be said , I get so many comments per day from all videos , I can't answer them. Also. 70% of the time, the question is answered in the video and people don't listen to entire video or don't pay attention. 😀
Thanks for your reply. I understand it would be hard to answer all comments. I too find that many questions that I get have been answered in the video. It's just too easy to jump ahead and miss important info. I still remember having to get off the couch to change TV channels :)
I have a young hen that has decided she wants to go broody. This is not a good time as I already have a broody hen in the broody pen and involved in some major chicken related construction. I used to have a hutch with a wire bottom that I would put a want-to-be broody into and that stopped her. But that got destroyed. I will have to try this method. Once the construction is finished, I will welcome her going broody.
That chicken is so gorgeous and fluffy I just wanna cuddle her. LOL
+Linsey Houser She may look fluffy, but chickens are fairly prickly. I don't think you'd like it much after all.
I learned this from my grandma almost 70 years ago. I'm practicing this even now. Nice video and very informative.
My fiance said they did this to their chickens as well, and this is from a different country, so you must be on the right path! Good job!
You are an absolute genius! One of our chickens has been broody for 2 months and we tried EVERYTHING, did this once and its worked! MIRACLE
Thank you for your helpful information. We used the bath technique only twice and our lovely hen is now back in the yard with her flock, looking healthy and happy again. PS Our hen totally enjoyed her bath and she was NOT stressed at all. :)
I tried it after my hen kept sleeping in the nesting box and preventing other hens from laying in the box for about 3 weeks. This cold water method worked immediately. All other methods failed. Thank you for your video it really worked.
I was just thinking, it is tremendously good that you teach the young kids how to keep chickens and look after them in the way you show in this video, taking into consideration we will always need eggs and chickens
I love how she just sits there when she could leave if she wanted to😂
My grandmother in Cyprus had hens and my father who is now in his 60s remembers her dunking the hens in water to help them. It didn't harm them. Thank you for the video :)
We tried this putting her in some cold water for a few minutes. It worked . So glad I found this advice. Really good tip! Our chicken wasn't stressed. She just went very quiet dried off in sun and went back to her old self! Phew!
I once had a hen that was egg bound. I used the dunking method to help resolve the problem and it worked great! Freed up the bound egg and today she is perfectly healthy and laying lots of eggs. I don't at all feel that it was "inhumane" to use the dunking method. What is inhumane is to let an animal suffer needlessly through a difficult situation without trying to help them in whatever way you possibly can.
I now have a young Ancona that has recently gone broody. I will be trying this with her the first chance I get. Thanks for the upload! I found it very usefull and informative! Cheers!
Oh wow! So it theoretically will work for either problem!? That is very good to know! Thanks for sharing! :)
I tried this several times already and it really worked.
Thanks very much guys - I tried the cage method and it didn't work so very keen to give this a go. She looked like she was really enjoying it so l hope our hen Mimi will feel the same. Cheers, Dianne
I approve this video. Thanks you so much for this very informative about some problems with brooding hens. I lost hens in the past for not knowing what to do when she brood to her death. Thanks you so much for sharing.
I just want to thank you for this advice. My hen has been the terror of the coop. The other hens were attacked by her when they came in to lay eggs. Today I filled a large tub with water. I let it sit for two hours then made her sit for 8 minutes. She was so mad but it worked. Thanks for this advice. My sweet hen is back.
This is great! Thanks for the video showing how calm a bird can be during this process. I've heard of a hen starving herself to death since there were no fertile eggs. Our hen has been sitting on absolutely nothing for days now and unless we carry her out, she refuses to eat. Personally this seems more humane than a few days in a wire cage waiting to cool off. Not saying that's a bad way to go either, but a quick cool off seems better. I'll give this a try today.
Tried this with my hen tonight, thanks!
I am considering getting some backyard chickens. I will remember this.
One of my Buff Orpington hens went broody on me a few days ago. I tried the separation method, and removing her from the nest (constantly) for a couple of days. Then, I came across you and your son's 5 minute water bath; that did the trick. Ginger is back with the flock and back to her normal self. Thanks to you both.
That is awesome!
She's a pretty hen! I love her feather pattern
Our chicken has been Broody for about 2 weeks we done it this morning and she is back to herself thank you so much
What a great help. My chicken was brooding and I knew there were no babies to be hatched and she would starve. She would not drink or eat. We have no roosters so all her work was in vain. I did not want her to die so I picked her up tonight and perched her with her female clan. I removed the eggs hoping she would go to the spot in the morning back to normal. Bless her heart waiting for babies in the spring. I think it was my fault not collecting the eggs as quickly as before. Several hens lay in the same spot and when this particular alpha-hen had a clutch of eggs she refused to move. Usually my Silkies were the brooders, but this hen was OCD and did not budge. It was more than I could bear (going on two weeks). Tonight, I just had to pick her up and I hugged her and put her with the other hens. I pray she will snap out of it tomorrow when she sees the eggs gone. Hens change when they brood. I was scared. It is like they go into a shut-down trance or something. I pray I acted on good merit to save her. It's as if I had to make her come back to reality so she could live.
I am so glad to find your video! I have a broody hen and I have removed her from the box several times. This has been going on for quite sometime. She has also pulled out all of her breast feathers. I do have fake eggs in the beatbox so, I will remove the eggs and try and put her in a bucket of water. Hope this does the trick. By the way, did you have to repeat this process??
I love your son's soccer outfit. He looks about the same age as my grandson who is 7. I am the teams coach.😳
Glad it worked for you. I will definitely try this when my next hen goes broody.
We have two that have been brooding for months. Will definitely try this today! Thankyou
Good luck!
Willing to try anything at this point! Headed out to go try this now
I have 2 broody hens...and my father in law said that they would dunk the hens in water to cure it when he was a kid...i thought he was messing with me...guess not
2:45 of dunking cured 30+ days of brooding. Amazing! And she was unharmed.
"escapee's" that was funny
You have an amazing breed of chickens🥰there gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your video, very much appreciate it! 😊😊😊
Thank you for a very informative video.
Thank you!
One time. Just one time into the cool water, I think she liked it, and she was broody broke! Thank you so much for the awesome trick!!
just tried this method, seems to have worked for my chicken. Now to get her to eat!
Nice tip. Thank you
Love this idea! Going to try it!
This is is what my grandmother used to to back in the day's ..
Its cute how nice he is to his chickens
Thank You great advice headed to the barn give it a try.
you have the most beautiful chickens in the world
We did this method in the middle east too from long ago, but know this method doesn't work to some my chickens so I was searching for another method
I'll have to keep this in mind Thankyou
gosh that is a big chicken. In the Army, they have a survival class that really sucks!!! but people love it, covet it, and are proud they made it after the fact. I did it in the winter and to feed us, they allowed us one chicken, one rabbit to kill, clean, cook, and eat. They takes on new dimensions with all the pole in your team are used to fast food, or grocery stove chicken (non with anything to do with rabbits, but pet them) Gosh, that night sucked.. but we ate, but thank goodness for butchers, food processing, and the delivery mechanism of the foam little cartons chicken comes in at the stores.
Damn
DAMN
Tbh thats evil because its a survival training why the hell do they give you an animal isn't it supposed to be survival?
I have a broody hen and I’m gonna try this. It’s been about a month here too and I’ve tried just about everything else lol
It did work for a few hours lol
I've also heard of putting ice bottles under them. I'm not really comfortable trying any of this right now since it's winter but maybe in a few more months when it warms up.
Thanks for that I will try it tomorrow. I am also experiencing problems with feather pecking. The sprays are not working. I plan to move the two hens that have the most feathers out of the group tonight and leaving them in a run together for a time. Do you have any advice that might also help with this problem? Many Thanks.
My bloody hen prevented others from using the nest(for some reason they all wanted to use this one nest) and as,a result my favorite became eggbound and died. I immediately put the bloody in cold water. She was not happy, but please-these ridiculous comments of being inhumane! Broodiness causes too many problems, and the bloody hen will not eat or drink or poo until you take her off the nest FOR MONTHS. I hope it works!
thank you, people who say those things have never owned a chicken and know nothing about them
My hen is alone no rooster and has stopped laying eggs and has been sitting on one of them so my husband changed it for a wooden egg and she wont get off of it or eat or drink. What must I do to help her? It's been 4 months.
Oh god, why is your hen bloody?! 😬
I love blue laced red wyandottes. So dang pretty :)
will give that a try! I have a golden marans that's gone broody.
GOOD JOB THATS THE WAY
mad as a wet hen, i recently heard that expression. my 2 bits.
Greetings Sir, how long does it take before hen starts laying again after dunking?
Thank u for this information. I have tried it today and it works for few hours.
So plz tell how many time i have to do this to break it completely???
This relaxed hen of yours is huge. It's about 4 times bigger than my 998 gram Pekin rooster.
Thanks, ours has a little less of a black cape, so we are thinking Delware.
great idea thanks. was that just cool water?
Did you just use hose water? Needing to do this today and want to make sure if the water should be pretty cool.
thansk for the video i hope that well help me
This is surely the least stressful method because the hen just loses the sense of being broody, rather than upsetting her by removing the nest, putting her on wire or all the other methods which are drawn out and involve breaking her ability to sit. I did this today with my silkie after watching this video using tepid water, she got out of the bath and is now dust-bathing and hanging out with the other hens. I will definitely be sticking with this method! She was quite happy in the water just like your hen.
I’ve tried this with several broody hens and it’s never worked, but I haven’t done it for 3 minutes. I’m going to try tomorrow with a hen who’s constantly broody. I have broken the habit by removing from the coop for 4 to 5 days then she’s back to laying in about 2 weeks and lays just over a week and she’s broody again. She’s an arucana cross leghorn so its not that she’s a broody breed and her sisters have never been broody. She’s only 9 months old and now broody for I think the fifth time.
Thanks for the insight. I just tried this. Let's see what tomorrow morning brings. Right now, she is pecking around the pen with the others.
I am going to try this tomorrow on my little Buff Orpington. It took a little research for me to figure out what was going on with her as the little dictator isn't even sitting on one egg! As a new chicken keeper I also didn't know that a hen can go broody in the winter (or any time). All of the growling, puffing up and absolute resistance to staying off the nest is there though. Thanks for the info and I'll let you know if this worked for little hardheaded Penny!
My grandmother taught me this God Rest her soul, about 30 years ago I recommend it to people all the time hey, I have a rain thing that catches water and I usually do it in the early morning when the water is at the coolest especially in the summer months. Of course right now I have a Broody Leghorn and a Broody red sex links go figure the two most uncommon Broody hen period And I haven't had a Broody in 10 years so far it's worked on the Leghorn what's a red Sex Link is groovy really hard especially this week so I started giving her the cold water bath her a couple days ago.
Just did this about half an hour ago with a Maran that's been broody for close to a month. She was the last of our pullets to start laying, but quickly became one of our three best layers.
I keep peeking out to check on her and she hasn't gone back to the nesting box (which is a very good sign), but is clucking at me disgustedly and preening at her feathers to try to dry them Lol!
I will let you know how things progress, but thank you very much for the tip!
I sprayed my broody hen with the cold hose several times a day, in her own cage. Otherwise, she wouldn't eat or sleep for months! She did this every single year I had her. Also, it's not cruel if it's in the Summer months and warm out. I give my hens baths twice a year !
Like you said, although it might sound unusual, but your chicken was very calm in that water and imo she kinda liked it. Did I mention how beautiful she and your other chickens are? I love chickens so much. Thanks for the video :)
my hen has just finished hatching and continues being broody. is dipping it in water a good idea when the chicks reach to it for warmth
I laughed so much - for some reason I find it sad yet funny.
Thanks for the tip 👍
Your hen is pretty.
Thanks
Nice..
Thanks for the info ,chickens don't bite, lol they peck, I've not try ed this method but will try ,and good advice on getting eggs out each day ,spring makes all mine sit,it's been like pulling hens teeth ,for me ,somebody stop me,hope those sceptics didn't think you completely submerge them for 3 minutes lol some people look for a way to conflict, thanks again for info
The same people that complain about this are clueless and don't realize in real life they make worse descions than putting a hen in water to cool her area.
I have dunked chickens in water when they are egg bound. They always relax when they are in the water.
Leigh Boulineau they like being dolled off
That's interesting.
I’m 7 years late but glad to find this! We only have 3, but one has been broody for months and I didn’t know what to do. Going to try this. So…any advice on a really aggressive hen? Other than culling that is? She does lay. But she was raised from a few days old with us, yet is meaner than any rooster I have ever seen. Clearly I am no expert on chickens, but I have to put a milk crate over her just to clean the coop, and she sometimes successfully gets out from under it. The suggestion to subdue her by grabbing her legs and holding her upside down did not work. She is a Leghorn, on the small side if you ask me. But she will bow up to anyone fearlessly!
You can try establishing pecking order, meaning you need to be the alpha. To do this, anytime she tries to attack, hold the hen's head towards the ground for about half a minute. Keep repeating it until she stops attacking you. I did that with my rooster, I even taunt him to attack me, and when he does, I hold his head towards the ground, and after a few times of training, he usually steers clear of me. Holding their head towards the ground is a sign that they are weaker than their opponent, so they will be more obedient.
Will i like it
must try this tomorrow!
Great!! Biohack! Highly recommend!! Worked!!
Very good thanks we will do that of awer hen we keep them as free range egg layers have you got more tips of you have could you Email me thanks
doing this is a great idea. they say its bad for them because they us to dunk them into ICE water, which sometimes killed the chicken due to the shock, but normal temp water is great for them.
mine have been broody for 2 months. gonna try this
Thanks, we're going to try this. One hen has been broody for 2 and a half months! We've tried putting frozen bottles and blue freezer bricks under her. No effect.
yup that's the way . even back here in rular Nepal we have been doing this to the brooding hens. we put them in water and cover it with net basket . and let them sit for few minutes.
i am from kurdistan we also doing the same for years
We do the same in Turkey too bro
rasan Hasan Zedki. Hey
Do you have a extra Coop I can have I have a chicken butt
Hello @NJRE! Thank you for the advice. I have been learning so much from this channel! We just started to raise chickens a few months ago, and I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to just have the chickens in an electric-fenced area with a few shelters and a homemade nesting area. What would be your advice?
I would be concerned about Hawkes. If you don’t have a top, buying deer fencing, works great on top.
Where do you think the the old farmers adage of, "Madder than an old wet hen" came from? My Grandpa used to dunk broody hens in an old rain barrel outside of the chicken coop when they got that way!
I think if it works from what i saw no harm came to the Chicken, And if it works that is what you do or have chicken for dinner from where i grew up. Good job thank you for the video.
What temperature should the water be? I am going to try this.
Whatever comes out of hose
good!
Did you put ice in the water or just cool hose water?
nice chickens
I wish I saw this sooner. My girl Beatrice went into this broody mode and we took a drive up to Jersey Chickens and got her 2 fertile eggs and a 4 month old rooster. So the eggs hatched and she got her wish to be a mama but the poor teen rooster is being rejected by the rest of the hens. Rooster got beat up by the girls. They weren't very welcoming, lol. Next time I get a broody hen she'll be taking a dunk in the water like your, lol. Thanks for sharing!
At the end of your video, you say to contact you on anytime on UA-cam with any questions. So why do you have 177 comments and I've only seen one reply from you? Just wondering??
Many questions get answered within the group. But the truth be said , I get so many comments per day from all videos
, I can't answer them. Also. 70% of the time, the question is answered in the video and people don't listen to entire video or don't pay attention. 😀
Thanks for your reply. I understand it would be hard to answer all comments. I too find that many questions that I get have been answered in the video. It's just too easy to jump ahead and miss important info. I still remember having to get off the couch to change TV channels :)
BTW you do have some great videos.
NJRE I pay attention just wanted to now wha cain is the second chicken pictures with fethered face or fluffy face tanks
I do this with my chickens because they get broody in winter
WINTER SERIOUSLY WINTER
is there no other medical process to do
i love your light Sussex's!!!!! there so cute and fluffy!!
I have a young hen that has decided she wants to go broody. This is not a good time as I already have a broody hen in the broody pen and involved in some major chicken related construction. I used to have a hutch with a wire bottom that I would put a want-to-be broody into and that stopped her. But that got destroyed. I will have to try this method. Once the construction is finished, I will welcome her going broody.
How did it work out?
+Monroe Madison the chicken has to sit on her eggs inorder to hach otherwise the eggs will get cold and die
+Monroe Madison the chicken has to sit on her eggs inorder to hach otherwise the eggs will get cold and die
Nice one 👌
What temperature does the water has to be, and what do you feed your chickens? Do you eat them to or just use them for eggs?
How long did you keep hen in the water? Warm water or what temp water? Did she snap outta it instantly?