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Pekin Bantams
| Mon, Aug 8 2011 06:24pm BST 1 |
Del
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I have 3 pekin hens that were laying daily but now they have taken
to the nest boxes and stopped laying, any idea why?
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| Mon, Aug 8 2011 08:18pm BST 2 |
weeley
92 Posts
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Maybe they're broody? Bare underneath? Just want to sit in the next
box?
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| Sun, Aug 28 2011 11:40pm BST 3 |
Lewis
113 Posts
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They do sound like they're broody - especially in pekins.
You'll need to snap them out of it by taking them off the nest
and putting them into the run and close off the nest boxes.
You can also put them in an upturned wire dog crate raised up on
a couple of bricks for 3 days and 3 nights, so that the air
circulates all around them and cools them down, snapping them out
of it!
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