So it's my daughter's first birthday. We had a lovely day, FaceTime calls to the family, presents and pizza and cupcakes for dinner. I can't help but think this is her last day as an official baby. The days of milky breastfeeding snuggles and being transfixed by ceiling fans are over. It makes me want another for a fleeting crazy day! I had a miscarriage before this baby, and a threatened miscarriage then she came 6 weeks premature. It was a tough delivery concluding in a C-section and 6 hours in surgery. I do NOT want to do that all again. I do NOT want the crying that comes with a younger baby. I do NOT want the sleepless nights. I know this. My husband DEFINITELY does not want to do it again. Our only is perfect. But... Will I feel this way every birthday? Will I always be mourning the last stage that I don't get to do again?
Why are bantams so prone to broodiness?
I have a wyandotte bantam that is going on 3 months broody.
It's driving me insane. I've isolated her. Put her in a box with a cold water bottle. Locked her out of the coop. Emersed her chest in water a multitude of times. I can't break it.
Hey guys I noticed when we have one hen go broody, the egg production from the others goes down quite a bit.
Also the other hens sometimes go broody all at once... Two in a row, three in a row, etc.
Is this a thing?
My household is thinking of raising chickens in our backyard. (We're still househunting, so we don't know the size of the yard yet.) What is the best breed for three people who have never owned chickens before?
I was thinking of Rhode Island Reds, but my friend recommend Americuana and Gems. I was also confused because Friend also said that broody hens still lay eggs, but I thought they didn't?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: We are looking for egg-layers, and will probably not own a rooster since we don't want to raise too many chicks in our backyard.
I have a 6.5 month old Jubilee Orpington pullet that decided to go broody. She's been laying for about 6 weeks, but just yesterday I noticed she wasn't leaving the coop and is huddled in a nesting box, and will fluff up and growl/hiss at me when I open the door. I took her out yesterday to make sure she wasn't eggbound since there was no egg under her. Nothing I could feel and she isn't walking funny/trying to squat and pushing. If it is broodiness, any tips for breaking her of it? She's in the preferred nesting box for our hens so they've resorted to laying elsewhere which is becoming a pain to find where else they may be hiding.
We collect eggs daily and have never left one in the coop more than a day (when they first started and we didn't know there were eggs). We don't plan to hatch chicks until we make our coop bigger.
I say I’m unsure about kids which is true but ever since about 4 years ago when I started to become broody I found that my fear of childbirth and being pregnant kind of went away a bit? To the point having kids does sort of seem like a logical thing for me to want now.
As a teen I would’ve told my people I didn’t want kids. But that was as a teen and I’m sure it’s pretty normal to feel like that then.
I’m still not convinced I’d like being pregnant but don’t really know obviouslt as never have been, I’d worry I’d hate the change to my body I’d face and I’d likely try and cover the pregnancy up big time. But then sometimes I think some things would be really nice to wear pregnant like a dress that was tight and showed the bump. Hmm!
Starts off with family chat.
GC Sis: [sends video of brother as a baby]
- silence-
Me: [sends a video of brother as a baby]
NMom: Omg this is making me feel broody again.
-silence-
NMom: I can see that you're feeling broody too!
- No response, irl me is rolling my eyes and ignoring the message. -
NMom calls. I put loudspeaker just in case so my partner can hear when she starts with her strange or toxic behavior.
NMom: Hey [inquiteapredicament], how's you and your SO?
Me: We're--
NMom: Anyway, so I saw the video you posted of x sibling, so I want to have more kids now. I bet you want to brood with your SO too.
- Partner and I look at each other and roll our eyes. This woman is at it again. -
Me: You're wrong. I felt nostalgic, saw one of my sisters post a video of x sibling, and sent a couple from my--
NMom: Well, it must mean you want to procreate!
Me: No mom. [sighs then lies - use greyrocking voice] Listen, I'm currently cooking food right now so I gotta--
NMom: Don't try to slip out of this one. I know you. You're trying to avoid this conversation. You'll provide a grandchild for me won't you? You won't leave me without a child.
Me: Mom. Listen. 1. I'm not responsible for your broodiness. 2. I've told you this before - Only I will choose if I will have a child. I don't want a child at this time, and am not sure I will ever want a child. I don't care if you can't accept that, this is my body and life and I will do what I want with it.
NMom: Uploading those videos tells me otherwise [inquiteapredicament]. Look! He's so cute! You can feel it right? The motherly brooding feeling? I can't do it anymore because I made your dad do the operation a while ago, but now I regret it and want another one.
- Partner facepalms, mouths silently "what is she on". I shrug, and mouth silently in return "maybe she's in heat", then grimace. He grimaces in return, mouthing silently "ew", and then leaves the room. -
Me: Whatever you say. I've got to go and finish my cooking now. Bye.
[switches off phone]
I'm 32f and have decided to be CF for various reasons such as my health and the possibility of passing it on to my unborn child. I also have various mental health problems and don't think I'll be a good mother. My mental health is as a result of years of mental and emotional abuse by my own mother which also puts me off having kids.
Lately, I've been having vivid dreams of having children, I think it's my body's was of saying tic tic. So ladies and gents, how do you cope with this? Is this normal amongst the CF community?
How does it affect you and how do you deal with it? Whether you're a mother, you want children, can't have children, or just don't want them, I want to hear from you.
We recently got a young rooster so we can raise our own chicks. I've read some tips for encouraging broodiness, but wonder if it is a bad idea to encourage some of our hens to nest and incubate the eggs? I know it'll be a lot easier to introduce the new chicks to the flock if they're hatched by one of our hens (and we'd really like not to make the dusty brooder a permanent fixture in the house). We've got ten hens and use the eggs ourselves, so losing egg production from a bird or two isn't a concern. Are there other down sides to having a broody hen?
I have been raising chicken for a while. Out of 6 chickens I get 5 eggs per day. I decided to up my flock to 15 laying hens. 2 Australorp , 1 barred rock, 1 leghorn, the rest or all red sexlinks they all under 1 year old How many eggs would be a good guess per day. I then have 7 hen Saxony/runner mixed duck any idea of their egg laying rate?
I have a flock of 20 Australorps the roo is 2 yrs old and the girls are 11 month old. When i researched the breed it was stated that they are broody and good mothers. I don't want to use artificial incubation thats why i choose the natural method to increase the flock size. I have some nest boxes in dark quiet places but none of birds seems to be interested in them.
Can i induce broodiness somehow? Fake eggs maybe? Thanks
Is there a real tried and true way any of you guys know to "induce" broodiness? I've had a rooster for months now and none of my girls want to sit on their eggs. I've tried wooden or porcelain eggs and not collecting the eggs laid for days. What else can I try?
He doesn’t understand just how badly I want a baby. He’s annoyed, and I understand that he is, but he also doesn’t understand it because he always asks me, “why do you want a baby so bad?”
To him, I’m whiny, bitchy (I’ll own up to that), needy, clingy; I’m also perfect, beautiful, strong, and smart. He thinks all of that of me.
We had a miscarriage in April, when I was 8.5 weeks along. Before that, I’ve never dealt with such strong need for a baby. My pregnancy was a total accident. But now, after our loss, I feel the need so heavily sometimes that it’s actually heart-clenching and bone-aching.
How do I explain this need to him, when he thinks I’m just being annoying and whiny about it?
Somebody pointed out how the Undertaking marked the end of upbeat-at-times Oliver. Even if it would make a Timey Wimey paradox, Oliver doesn't seem like the kind of person who would let that stand in the way of trying to make Rip Hunter bring back his parents and Tommy. I'm assuming that Rip Hunter shows him a future textbook or something about White Canary being the only resurrected one, but it'd be interesting to see if the writers have Oliver even consider bringing back the people he sacrificed so much for and because of. Shit, he could bring back the fern, Salmon Ladder, Lance's hair, that Shado girl, the writers that left for Flash, WALTER?!
Just a thought. I hate the offseason.
I'm a 20 year old woman suffering for the longing of motherhood. I'm desperate for a child of my own, I can't help but long for my own baby, my SO definitely isn't interested in children at this moment in time, but my mother says "It's that time in a woman's life where the body is ready to reproduce". I am desperate, I have a job lined up, my SO has a job and we're moving out soon. I don't know what do :(.
Hey guys,
I have two silkies who are about 1yo now. My white silkie Alaska has been broody two times before, this is my black silkies Miss Fame's first time. Alaska wasn't broody which makes it really weird that she is now because there weren't any eggs in the box before she got broody. Now both ladies share the same box, even though there are two. Always did for laying, sleeping and now brooding. Which is all fine and dandy, however whenever they go outside it they immediatly start fighting. Not like the pecking order fight, but actually fighting with each other. Wings flapping, trying to peck each others eyes out and I have to break it up every single time. Does someone know if this has something to do with their broodiness? They are usually close as sisters and super clingy to each other. So I don't understand where all these fights come from.
