How Can I Get A Hen UN Broody?

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Bine said:
I am quite happy about this post b/c I hope that it exposed the "tricks" for what they are: cruel. Most are based on the hope that if you make the hen misery the survival instinct will overwright the reproduction instinct somehow.  

And I think they are from a time where we didn't know about hormones. 
To work with nature and respect the animals is always much easier way to achieve what you want. Think about the stupid violent things people did to dogs and horses to train them in the past.

Today we use clicker, treats and praise and have a trained dog or horse in half the time and with out all the yelling and beating. 


 
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I agree 100%.... I don't cull an open cow just because she won't give me a calf....she can try again next year.... Lol but some people do....

Unfortunately, its usually about the bottom line, money and time. Most want product to get that profit and want it now. I like profit, but I also like my animals healthy and happy to give me good food for their whole life... That's just me though....

*I know when a human goes "broody" lol.... It happened to me hahaha; i got over it...if my husband had stuck me in a pillowcase or cold baths.... He would be single now lol ;)
 
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yellowchicks said:
I thought my one-year-old Leghorn was sick, turned out she's gone broody this week! (How?) Leghorn is supposedly the non-broody breed!

I took her out of the nest many times during the day, tried to keep her preoccupied in the run with treats (no longer interested in treats), locked her out of the coop (she flew up to the roof trying to get back in), put ice packs under the nest box and remove the padding (probably felt nice and cool for the summer anyway). Every time I turned around, she finds ways to sit in the nest again. I moved her back onto the roosting bar at night, 3 nights in a row. In the morning, she is right back into the nest box doing the useless deed with or without eggs (and there is no roo to fertilize the eggs).

Finally, I gave up, she won. I served her breakfast in bed this morning. Probably have to give her the VIP treatments until she gives up.

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Yeah, that's why I got Leghorns ... but, believe me, they DO go broody! And I almost think they are more stubborn about it once it happens. I learned my lesson last year. I tried to wait one out, moved her out of the nest, took her eggs, etc., (no starving, dunking, swinging or isolation). I finally just gave her a few fertile eggs and let her go for it! She hatched and raised 2 chicks and was fine the rest of the year.

When she went broody again this year, I didn't even try to break it, just gave her eggs. As a matter of fact, tomorrow is hatch day!
 
If a hen is broody you should just let her be broody, but if you really want her to be unbroody then you should keep doing the stuff that you have already did over and over until she stops, or you can try and scare her... when she lay an egg you need to reach under her crack the egg, and that will scare her.
 
Oh Boy..... here we go again.

The reason this thread was on the banner is probably because people won't stop posting on it.
 

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