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You have a great set up, also!

Thank you for the pics! Very helpful!

For whatever reason, this issue has been weighing on me. It’s just been hard for me to make a decision on it. I was hoping There was a clear-cut answer.

You mentioned a dog crate with a wire floor to break her broodiness - I am asking if you think it is worthwhile to put her in a dog crate (mine does not have a wire floor), with some eggs in order to see if she will go truly broody. Not to break her broodiness. I repeat, if I locked her out of...

So...you mentioned trying to de-broody her...what do you think of the dog crate idea? I don’t think that she will continue the broody behavior if she is locked out of the broody coop and put with the general population. Buuut is there any possibility that isolating her with eggs will push her...

Yes its a broody set up. The larger coop will not allow privacy, but i can take the pestering hen out and close the door to the coop. The egg thief was just so persistent!! she has been in there for 5 days. But otherwise, not showing any broody behavior such as puffing up or clucking. I can...

One of my hens keeps trying to steal the eggs from under my broody hen. She also tries to push her off the nest, or share the nest with her. I have given her eggs to set on in the nesting box next to it, but she won’t stay there, she just continues to harass my broody hen, day and night. She is...