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Any ideas or comments, please anybody?
My grandaughter's lemon cuckoo has gone broody.
I don't mind, but she still has a 3 month old son, who will not leave her alone, he loves his mum!
The son is a frizzle lavender cockoo (ad. on this site), from bought in eggs, but a real mummy's boy.
Only 4 occupy a very large bantam unit, so space is not a problem.
He will at night still snuggle down with mum instead of joining his "aunts" on the perch.
Lemmy does not seem to mind, but should she be away from stress and life in the house?.
She is sitting on 4 Croad Langshan eggs, (poor little darling), all fertile, and I feel rotten making use of her!!!!!!!
In the family she is known as "Lemmy Le Moan" on account of her mouth, apart from "Spike", her hatchling son and us, the other two are and all the layers are terrified of her.
We love her to bits, she is a great hearted little termagent, will she be OK?
 
Ideally it would be best to move him away from her. chicks from previous broods can annoy and disturb their mothers as they attempt to sit a new clutch. They can also foul their mother's nests,risking the contamination of developing eggs.
Within a flock,There is also the risk of other laying hens depositing their eggs in the broody's nest, which can interrupt the incubation process and cause stress to the naturally protective and territorial sitting hen.To ensure a trouble free period of incubation, it would be better if you could cordon off your broody, making sure she has her own personal space to stretch, feed, drink and relieve herself.
 
Thanks Lord Cluck,
All of the things you mention, I fully understand, she is only a baby herself, but a great broody. Absolutely meticulous in her habits, she just wants to pop downstairs to poo, and makes a great fuss is she cannot because she is cordoned off. She has a large "apartment" up the ladder, with two nest boxes, and a floor on which she raised the previous brood.
This is the problem, do I cordon her off, and isolate her, or leave the hatch open thus allowing the others (especially Spike) access to her?
In the few days I have had the problem Spike has become less of a problem. Having said that, yesterday morning I found him ON the eggs, a nice set of warming pans for a cold little boy on a cold day!!!
 
i would say isolate her completely her boy will get over it oneday { we all know what boys are like :lol: :lol: } what are you hatching ??
 
Hi Karminski,
She is sitting on 4 Croad Langshan eggs, I said in a previous post, I got up close and personal on a holiday in Cornwall and fell in love!!
They are the most stunning birds, black, soft, large and very user friendly, apparently, also great layers.
They seem difficult to get hold of, either in egg form or pullets. As Lemmy obligingly went broody, and I was looking for eggs at the time, I happened across some. The breeder only had 5 of which one is blank, I wanted 8 to allow for cockerels and non-hatch, to try for at least 3 or 4
pullets.
Thry are going to have a new set-up in the garden, and I'm looking forward to it so much.
 
cant wait for piccies :D :D will have to look them up ever heard of them .
 
Lemmy has done it again!
She hatched the 4 Croads, and to add to her problems, I have given her the 2 barred Plymouth rocks that hatched in the incubator at the same time.
She seems to be coping, and was showing them how to eat chick crumbs a while ago, hope I have not overloaded her.
The Croad chicks are just beautiful, being black and white, not the jet black they will eventually be, with very finely feathered legs and feet.
I have not had BP rocks before, but the parents were beautiful and the eggs were available, you know how it is folks!
I hope one feisty Pekin can cope with 6 LF chicks, I am sure she will, knowing her.
 
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