A way to cure a broody hen

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I haven't seen any drawbacks to this method and it works like a charm.

When I have a Cochin go broody, I simply put her in the Silkie pen for a week. Then I return them to the Cochin pen and no more sitting. Voila, instant cure!

The Silkies are so docile so there are never pecking order squabbles, although the Silkie cockerels do lavish their affections on the Cochin girls. Since they are the newcomers, the Cochins don't pick on the Silkies either.
 
i have a broody right now i just sit down and take her outside for awhile then take the eggs away she eventually gives up...
 
My BO has gone broody twice. The first time I took her off the nest (in the middle of the blackberry bushes) and put her on a cold rock in the shade. She sat there for a while and cooled down, then got back on her nest. I put her back on the cold rock again and she decided it wasn't worth it and wandered away. The next time that didn't work so I put her into a basin of cold water. What a shock! She was very offended but it cured her. I hear cooling down the body temperature works to cure them and it did it for mine.
 
We have a broody BO right now who is sitting on a plastic egg filled with sand and a golf ball that she is carefully keeping warm.

Our egg production is excellent right now and while I'm interested in stopping her broodiness because this time of year isn't the right time for this in my climate (I do have fertile eggs I could put under her), is there a problem with her being this way? She seems very happy on her nest. Does it harm her to sit on a golf ball and sand egg for a few weeks? I think she is otherwise in excellent sprits and condition.

I want to hatch chicks in the spring and I'm happy to see one of my BO is a broody hen, that is why I chose this breed.

If stopping the false broodiness is a good thing, how do I do that in a group situation when I have only one real pen and multiple laying nests in the mutual coop. I don't even have the situation set up for chicks now even if the weather was right.
 
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My Cochins are not so easily deterred. I took away the nest egg, and put boards on the nest. They just sit on the boards.

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When a broody hen sit on the nest, she doesn't eat or drink as much as usual. Since it has gotten cold all of my chickens have stepped up their food consumption. I think it may be detrimental for them to go without eating in freezing temperatures.
 
I have an EE bantam that is very broody..she hasn't layed in almost 2 weeks.... we go into the coop several times a day and take ou tany eggs and put her out with the oher birds....someone told me that buying fertile eggs and letting her hatch them would cure her....Any ideas?
 

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