As Donrae has pointed out, you have two choices. Either you break your broody using a broody cage or you leave her to ride out her hormones in any slap-dash manner she chooses.
You cannot break a broody by simply blocking off nest boxes. A determined broody will dig herself a nest in the dirt of the run or find a spot under a shrub to hunker down. The only way to break a broody is to confine her to a cage with no bedding and an open mess floor where air can circulate underneath her so her body temperature can gradually cool down, in turn lowering her hormone levels, returning them to normal. Without this very precise intervention, she will continue to be broody. No "ifs" no "buts". Take this as scripture.
If you do not wish to intervene in this manner, be assured your hen will remain broody.
You cannot break a broody by simply blocking off nest boxes. A determined broody will dig herself a nest in the dirt of the run or find a spot under a shrub to hunker down. The only way to break a broody is to confine her to a cage with no bedding and an open mess floor where air can circulate underneath her so her body temperature can gradually cool down, in turn lowering her hormone levels, returning them to normal. Without this very precise intervention, she will continue to be broody. No "ifs" no "buts". Take this as scripture.
If you do not wish to intervene in this manner, be assured your hen will remain broody.
