Why Chickens Go Broody—and What To Do About It
You ’ve probably live this at some detail : one twenty-four hour period all is calm and peaceful in the chicken cage , and the next , your normally teachable hen is short squawking , acting belligerent , and refusing to leave the nest . Sure enough , she ’s sitting on a clutch of eggs . What ’s surprising to some poulet - keepers is that biddy upraise without rooster ( and therefore do n’t lay fertile eggs ) can still go broody and attempt to sit onanyegg ( even imaginary unity at time ) and expect for non - existent bird to hatch ....