Wifey and I have each noticed the Broody, our lone remaining Silver-Laced Wyandotte chicken, seems to be exhibiting some characteristics of broodiness. As with her behavior last year, she's spending more time in the nesting boxes, is puffing herself up when we open up the nesting boxes to retrieve eggs, and also makes some rather unhappy-sounding noises when we go in to get the eggs.
We're still pretty early on with having chickens, but this sure seems like broody behavior.
Wifey's done some researching online and also calling one of the feed stores where they're knowledgeable about owning and caring for chickens. All of that info indicates that our current batch of chicks are now too old to place under Broody at night.
Which means we need to get more baby chicks to break her of the broodiness.
The feed store won't get more chicks in until next Friday. Thankfully, that'll give us plenty of time to absolutely verify that Broody actually is broody. By that time we should know for certain.
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