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Day 11 and they are still broody. They are now no longer kept in crate. I take both hens out of main cage at 9am every morning and they stay outside the main hen cage basically free ranging but trying to get in. This happens all day till sundown at 9pm. 9pm when i open cage they go straight...

By the way it is now Day 5 of keeping them locked up and they are still broody. Although the low and slow cluck clucking has stopped when they are in the crate, when i open the cage they are still go and sitin the nesting boxes and flare up feathers when i try to remove them.

4 decades later i guess climate change has increased the overall temperature during summers :) anyhow thanks for the assurance Not really, 2 of the hens are just over a year old (They were born in May 2021), and the other 5 are just over 6 months old.

Thanks, i am based in the UK where temps are ranging from 75-85F these days in summer.

So i have a flock of 10 hens and 1 rooster. 7 buff sussex 1 isa Brown 2 shamo hens So far this year the 2 shamo hens went broody in spring, i successfully managed go break them using the dog crate method, although one took 2 days and the other 3. Around 3 weeks back 1 shamo hen went broody...