If your like "Where the fuck is her BEEPNESS? I NEED MY DAILY BEEPENING"

Dis is why

Gonna fucking cry if nobody tears me the fuck apart

Break my hollow bones then care for me tenderly while you watch my belly swell with your eggs.

(obviously keep using me however you need💛)

New method discovered to break a broody hen: Chased around by the dog for a while

This little puffball is Whispers. We don't have a rooster, her motherly ambitions are futile. I am treating her gently, taking her out of the coop multiple times a day, giving her treats and making sure she drinks, and removing all the eggs from the nest boxes. More drastic measures aren't warranted yet, hoping she will snap out of it soon. This is her second bout of broody this year!

Inmate Ghoul! She started getting sores on her hocks from lying down all day in the nestbox, and one of her flockmates has mites (I caught them early and I'm treating everyone for them) that broodies are very vulnerable to, so Ghoul has to go to broody hen jail in the garage to "break" her broody cycle. She was not sitting on any eggs, but hens sometimes get broody in spring or summer, and her breed is known for being broody.

Keeping them in a raised wire cage like this with lots of air flow for a few days helps cool their bodies down, and removes them from "their nest." The hormones that cause broodiness raise the hen's body temperature to incubate eggs, and it's thought that removing them from their snuggly nest and cooling them down helps return hormones to normal more quickly. Hopefully it will reduce her broody cycle. from a few weeks down to only 48-72 hrs. Some people even give them cool baths!

In a few days Ghoul will stop fluffing up into a beach ball and growling at me and she will be allowed to return to the flock. If she heads straight back to the nest she will have to go back to prison for another day or two.

She hates being in jail, but allowing her to continue being broody will make her vulnerable to mites and other parasites, give her pressure sores, and put a lot of stress on her body. Broody hens only get up off the nest to eat/drink/poop/exercise once or twice a day, so they lose a lot of weight and their overall feather condition deteriorates. They pull a bunch of feathers from their own breasts to line their nests. They also suffer socially from being away from the flock for weeks, and other hens will sometimes bully them badly the longer they are "away." Broody jail may seem extreme, but it's a shorter and lesser hardship to the hens overall.

If I had a hen sitting on fertile eggs, I'd move them to a "maternity ward" and give special care to help protect them from parasites and mitigate the stress of brooding eggs and rearing chicks. Interestingly, returning to the flock with chicks raises a hen's social standing and they are not bullied on their return but actually have increased status in the flock.

Only two of our chickens (Diglett and Mew) are Wyandottes. They have both decided to go broody at the same time.

Diglett and Mew have each claimed a nesting box and make loud grumpy sounds at anyone who gets too close. This would be a problem if they were high in the pecking order and blocked other hens from laying their eggs in peace. Fortunately, they are too smol to be taken seriously.

The other chickens either placidly ignore the racket, or temporarily kick the Wyandottes out of the coop. Every morning is full of petulant bwaks.

My wife now refers to them as the Whiny Dots

Caramel has gone broody. No one told her that without a rooster the eggs ain't gonna hatch.

I tried to gently encourage her to leave the nesting box but that just made her fluff up into an angry cream puff

Traintober: day 8: bird

Agatha: *is very broody*

Casey: Agatha, get out of the trash can, that’s not your nest or your eggs

Agatha: *angry chicken noises*

Casey: you can’t hatch your eggs in there, you need to move

Agatha: *low chicken growls*

Casey: Agatha, those eggs are not going to hatch, you can’t incubate those!

Agatha: *angry peck*

Casey: Agatha, sweetie, those aren’t even eggs! Those are lightbulbs

14/6.2023 - skruk

*narrator voice* More like Brooder's Gate 3, amirite???

(Pats Smores) this woman can fit so many babies under her

Desperately need more mean Harpy Fuckers

We're so delicate guys. It would be so easy.

More people should be talking about sneaking into a pretty bird's cozy nest to stuff them with eggs

Tell me how pretty my feathers are with your fist clenched in them

Threaten to clip me if I don't behave, even if you won't, I don't need to know that

I'm broody as hell. It's fucking killing me.

Faye was off the nest getting water. Looks like an egg got busted at some point.

Prompt 240

You know what I think could be a really interesting premise?

Liminal-as-fuck Batfamily (and maybe all of Gotham itself) who aren't part of the Justice League. Like I am saying full on cryptid batfam who terrorize the criminals of Gotham and aren't well known outside of the city besides rumours.

And now throw in the Phantom team, either via Sam or Ellie or otherwise bringing the anti-ecto acts to their attention. I'm saying feral ghostly children barely being held back by Alfred from destroying the GIW buildings with their bare hands. Yes, that includes Bruce and Kate.

The sad little man just wants to be a dad