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I could hatch chicks BUT......I am NOT taking the chance of roosters!

In fact, now that I think about it......the yellow chick in my profile picture is the broody!

I never did break the habit. I have pretty much just given up. She goes broody for an abnormally long time every spring and fall. But this year, she decided to try committing suicide by cooking herself when she brooded the whole summer, including through a heat wave where temperatures went over...

When I gave her the chicks she had been broody for about a month. We were roosterless for a while but by next spring our rooster will be big enough that we will be getting some fertile eggs! Since Her Royal Highness will most likely be broody still by then I might be able to let her have a chick...

I was standing way back when she realized there was something living under her. That's when she turned into a cobra and went for the chicks. I guess if the wire bottom box doesn't work then she is just permanently broody? I thought she would stop when she molted but she's been molting for 3...

I guess I should have said this before....... 4 months ago we got some day old chicks. When we tried to slip them under her she sat up and tried to kill them. That didn't go too well....... Is my chicken brain-dead?

I have a buff orpington who is obsessively broody! I want her to stop. I have tried everything. I left her alone for a month to see if she would get the idea when no eggs hatched, put her in a beddingless nest, put her on an ice pack, picked her out of the nesting box and put her outside 3...