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First thing, unfortunately, yes you would need to keep her in day and night. When she gets to go back in at night she gets to keep that belly warm. Secondly, if you want to try giving her a chick, I would highly recommend first placing an egg under her and then at night when it is nice and...

Wow! I could never starve an animal, especially not when broody is a natural thing for them. I am much happier (and so is my hen) with giving her some fertile eggs to sit on and hatch. She has turned out to be one amazing mama!!! I am not sure how this would work anyway, she ate so little...

After 20 days of being on the nest, a tornado coming through and throwing mama and the eggs off the nest, losing one egg and 100 degree days on July 4, 2012 6 of the 8 remaining hatched. Maybe the other two will hatch tomorrow. Here is a peek at one of the chicks.

Well, one of my hens has ended her broody stage after months of issues and another one kicked in. After giving her 2 cold baths and that not breaking her we decided to get some (9) fertile Blue/Blue Splash Marans eggs for her to sit on. Needless to say, she is thrilled. We moved her to her...

Well, she got dipped twice today in a cold bath. Needless to say she was not happy at all about it and to show how disapproving she was she is still broody. Now she keeps moving from nest to nest but she will not leave the nest boxes. I normally have 9 laying hens but my eggs are dwindling in...

I think I am going to have to give this a try. I have a hen who has fooled me now into thinking she was no longer broody as it felt as though her temp had gone down and she went out and started joining the others eating, etc. and then tonight I went to lock everyone up for the night and there...