nesting!

[Nicos]

OK well Bertha has been laying for a few weeks and suddenly today she's decided to sit on the wooden egg ( after I removed hers) for most of the day.
I was getting worried at first that she had an egg stuck but then found she'd hidden hers under her feathers.
So...I picked her up and put her outside with the others and gave her porridge and then when I went to lock them up she was back in the nesting box. I've put her on the perch and removed the wooden eggs .
She's certainly a bit fluffed up, but not at all aggressive ( yet).

And so...should I remove the nesting boxes tomorrow ( she and another one will lay anytime between 9am and 8pm). ...or is it better to give her/them somewhere to lay??

oh the problems of motherhood!!

[lynda66]

think the best thing to do is just keep taking the eggs out, (maybe remove the wooden one too) and chuck her out, and hopefully she will get over it soon ...... if not you could always get her some duck hatching eggs

[HayleyB]

Or Lynda could post you her eggs and she can hatch those for us

[Nicos]

I wasn't sure if she was just nesting or being broody.
She's out with the others today- but I have to say as she was so calm that I thought she had a broken egg in her or something and was just going to slowly fade away!
Talk about worrying!
I'm leaving them in the capable hands of a farmer's wife when we go back to the UK for Xmas...doubt she'll worry

[roitelet]

If she persists just keep ckucking her out every time you go near the house. Pick up the eggs and don't leave anything that she could think was an egg around. She will go off the idea of being broody. Now is not a good time to ry and hatch eggs but if she is broody in the spring you could put 4 or 5 Cuckoo Maram eggs under her!!!!