A way to cure a broody hen

One of my RIRs (or both, I can't tell the difference between the two) is always sitting on everyone's eggs when I go out to check. She just gathers 'em all up and hangs out there. I just nudge her aside and take them, and she looks a little confused but doesn't protest. Then she moves along with her day, I'm assuming until somebody lays another egg for her to "mother." She doesn't sit there unless there's an egg. I'm not trying to hatch anything, so can I just let her do this? She acts normal other than this egg-sitting habit.
 
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Your RIR hen(s) should be fine as long as you are gathering eggs every day. I used to have some New Hampshire Red hens that were VERY aggressive when broody, when I'd try to take eggs out from under them my hand/arm would come out bloody!!! But my RIRs were never as determined to sit.
Best of luck with your flock and glad you found BYC.......this is a super group of chicken lovers, I've learned so much since I became a member.
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My light Brahma Sassy has been broody past week she sits on everyone’s eggs and I lift her off and take our eggs and she will go right back in sit in a empty nest I have taken her away so the others can lay in Peace put her back after laying Time right back to brooding any help would be appreciated
 
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?

To my old eyes buying a sitting hen a clutch of fertile eggs to sit on in order to break her desire to set is like buying an alcoholic a case of Scotch Whisky in order to sober him up.
 

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