Questions on breaking a broody hen

Looks good! My girl was ready to quit being broody after just 2 days in the box. But I know that time can vary depending on just how serious they are about it. If you have the time to spare, I would let her out every day to judge. If she wanders back to the nest box - back in the BBB. If not, let her rejoin the flock.

- Not a pro, just what worked for me :)
Ditto this^^^

My experience went like this: After her setting for 3 days and nights in the nest, I put her in a wire dog crate with smaller wire on the bottom but no bedding, set up on a few bricks right in the coop and I would feed her some watered down crumble a couple times a day.

I let her out a couple times a day and she would go out into the run, drop a huge turd, race around running, take a vigorous dust bath then head back to the nest... at which point I put her back in the crate. Each time her outings would lengthen a bit, eating, drinking and scratching more and on the 3rd afternoon she stayed out of the nest and went to roost that evening...event over, back to normal tho she didn't lay for another week or two.
 
All good information, thanks. I tried taking her out today after 48 hours in "the hole". She was tentative about leaving the coop but eventually did. Her poops under the cage looked quite normal after the first "broody blow-out" so I figured things were looking good. She looked quite normal after that as she joined her flockmates for the usual daily activities. But, alas, after a couple hours she was back on the nest. I waited for two hours and she didn't budge so she's back in solitary. I'll give her another two days and try again. Sigh.
 
To follow up, on the third morning I let her out as she was making a huge fuss to get out. She was out all day and back to the roosting bar that night. Same thing the next day. This broody hen was busted with roughly 3 days in the cage. Much less trouble than I had fretted.
 

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