Do Black Australorp Chickens Go Broody?

Black Australorp hens are great egg layers and great mothers. If you leave the eggs in the coop and let them make a nest they will go broody easily during the spring and summer months. A Black Australorp hen will sit on her nest for 28 days without leaving it for a minute!

Do black Australorps get broody?

Some Black Australorp hens have a strong motherly instinct and are apt to go broody. It can be maddening if several hens in a small flock stop laying and just want to incubate eggs, but the broody process is fascinating. ... It's best to put hen and eggs in a nest that's in a separate coop from the other hens.

What time of year do hens go broody?

We say a hen has “gone broody” when something in her biological clock kicks in and she starts sitting on a nest of eggs. It usually happens in the spring or early summertime but I've had hens suddenly go broody in September. The most obvious sign of broody hen behavior is she won't get off the nest.