I have a hen it is a blue copper maran and I have had to block her out of the coop after all the other eggs are collected because she will sit on an empty nest. i have been doing this for about 4 days. I have a nice size cage in my garage that she can be moved to. I think I may try and let her set. Thank you for you experience. I may try and move her and give her some eggs to set. I tried this before but the other hen that went broody ate the eggs after a week of setting on them. I think I will put her in the cage that way I can get food and water close to her because right now she is in a metal nest box hanging on the wall and she never gets off that is why I started closing the nest boxes so she would get some food and water, putting her in a cage the food and water would be right there for her.
Thanks for your story! My broody would jump right back on and sit on an empty nest after I would take her off to gather the eggs. All my hens lay in the same nest and won't lay in another that look just the same. So the hens would all be sitting on top of her laying their egg to where it dropped down in behind her....had 3 in the nest at a time for 3 days when I had the second hen want to go broody. It's funny how sometimes I catch them waiting in line for their turn to lay...lol. So I put the wanting to go broody real bad hen by herself. She ate very little the whole time sitting, but like you mentioned....food and water were right by her. With a failed hatch, all the time just not wanting to get off the nest and a successful hatch...she was sitting on a nest everyday for 60 or more days. I still think she went broody because she hated the roosters starting to breed. She took that WAY harder than the rest of the hens. I'm probably wrong, but it sure seemed liked she figured out real quick that they didn't bother her on the nest....
. She's fine with it now, but hated it again real bad when I put her back in with the rest of the flock, but didn't sit on the nest. Hopefully she'll do it again.
That's crazy your other hen ate the eggs! Good Luck to you if you try to hatch some out with this hen. It's real neat watching the baby chicks with a hen!!!
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