My one remaining survivalist hen left after the hawk massacre a couple of years ago has always been somewhat broody but after the hawks, I let her free range 24/7/365.
She hung out with the goats and LGDs or up by the house a lot for safety, would dash across open areas and would still lay eggs in the open coop that had a high opening to get in and out and I wasn’t feeding her.
Locked her in the coop recently so I could have a garden and was also hoping she’d go full broody. That was March and I think she finally has. Last few days, she’s been setting on the eggs most all the time and doing that flattening of the body they do to make sure they have all the eggs covered.
I really want this hen to hatch out eggs and raise the chicks because she’s a survivor and laid eggs with zero feed for two years so I think she’d raise her chicks to be the same, at least some of them.
Fingers crossed.
That’s a great story!! I hope she does! 🤞