Ah Crap!!!!!!

[Clay In Iowa]

My best layer has done gone broody on me.. She rarely misses a day and has laid 22 eggs in 24 days ... but now she's been trying to hatch 3 golf balls for about a week now....

Any hope of breaker her of her brooding ways?

 

[lovemychix]

Put eggs under her and let her have some babies.

Sometimes if I have too many broody hens I just give them 3 eggs and they are happy. I let mother nature take course. Maybe she just wants a break after all that egg laying.

Actually if you put her in a cage by herself for a while it may break her. I had one broody that everytime I move her and her eggs she doesn't want anything to do with them. Bad thing is that she goes broody again in a few weeks.

 

[FlashPointFarm]

I know! I know! *raises hand*

Put some Barnie eggs under that girl for me! LOL. Kidding!

A friend gave me a trick he used to do. I'm having the same problem with my Goldies.

Put the hen under a box for the day. Let her out at dusk to eat and roost. See what she does the next day. It may take a few days. I have a milk crate I use when it's hot so she doesn't overheat. I also wet down the concrete so it's cool for her.

3 days of this and it broke mine. It worked. Good luck!

 

[Clay In Iowa]

If my Barnies were laying I'd consider it. Unfortunately they probably wont start till mid-late October.

I'll try the box thing. It's not like she leaves the coop anyway.

I could let her sit on some almost certainly mixed eggs. Likely to be BCM, Blue Wheaten Amaraucanas, EEs or OEs..... hmmmm....any one in Iowa want some mixed chickies????

 

[pips&peeps]

Don't put any bird in a box in this weather!

Put her in a cage for about a week and just feed and water her like normal. Usually when they stop clucking they are ready to go back.

 

[Clay In Iowa]

I can isolate her in some very posh diggs. I'll try that.

She is an OE (sent as a "Pure Bred" Amaraucana).. Go figure..

But I love her just the same. I get a lovely large olive green egg almost every day. And to boot she has THE BEST temperament, calm, friendly and not the least bit flighty. She will let my 4 year old pick her up anytime.

 

[CMV]

I used a wire bottomed cage with no bedding in my garage where it's cool and dim for a few days. It broke my broody twice this season. Unfortunately, she kept returning to her broody state after a few weeks. She has finally stopped for good just these past few weeks because she is molting. Silly chicken has been a free-loader this year. I've gotten maybe a handful of eggs from her since April.

Good luck.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Send her to me! I love broody gals!